Leasing

Washington, DC (October 24, 2016)—Seventy-eight percent of respondents in a survey of businesses used at least one form of financing when acquiring equipment in FY 2015, according to the U.S. Equipment Finance Market Study: 2016-2017 released today by the Equipment Leasing & Read More

Washington, DC (October 26, 2016) — The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s (ELFA) Monthly Leasing and Finance Index (MLFI-25), which reports economic activity from 25 companies representing a cross section of the $1 trillion equipment finance sector, showed their Read More

Washington, DC (October 20, 2016) –- The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) releases the October 2016 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI) today. Designed to collect leadership data, the index reports a qualitative Read More

Cedar Rapids, IA — GreatAmerica Financial Services Corporation announced today it was named “Best Leasing Company” in The Cannata Report’s 2016 Annual Dealer Survey for the fourth year in a row. The honor as best leasing company was recognized for the first time with a Frank Read More

The contentious U.S. election is creating anxiety in a lot of quarters, and now it might be causing companies to put off equipment leasing decisions, according to the September 2016 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI). The MCI-EFI is produced by Read More

The document imaging industry is driven by trends. For those in the midst of the fray it certainly helps to be on top of what’s happening and an understanding of the impact certain trends may have on one’s business or product, services, and solutions offerings going forward. In Read More

The leasing and financing companies aren’t sitting back and doing what they’ve done last year. No way. They continue to create new programs to meet the needs of their customers and keep up with changes in the market. It’s inevitable and what needs to be done in order to keep Read More

As big stories in the document imaging industry go, here’s a big one for you. Last Friday General Electric (GE) announced that it is selling the majority of its GE Capital banking business in an effort to simplify the company and focus on its best-performing segments. That news Read More

Last Friday GE announced that they were selling most of GE Capital.  As a GE shareholder (I had one of those well timed “feelings,” combined with some research reports that made the stock look promising and I bought more GE shares last Monday to add to those that I already owned) Read More

Over the years, I would say that 90 percent of my clients leased their copiers with an option to buy the copier at the end of the term. Most of these leases had a buyout option for FMV (Fair Market Value). The general idea of an FMV lease is that the customer has no intention of Read More

When I asked Fred Carollo, general manager, Office Products for EverBank Commercial Finance, what trend or trends do you expect to have the biggest impact on your business in 2014, his comments underscored the driving trends many of us have been seeing throughout the office Read More

I posted this almost three years ago on the old site and thought I would re-post again for everyone. While going through my e-mails the other day, I had an e-mail from a client in the South. The e-mail was in reference to “what is really the interest rate for a Fair Market Read More

  Fred Carollo, general manager, Office Products, EverBank Commercial Finance, Inc. shares his views on the trends that will be shaping the industry in 2013 and what Everbank Commercial Finance is doing to ensure their office technology dealers are successful. What are some Read More

The office equipment world of faxes and copiers and the technology world of printers, laptops, servers and help desks continue their convergence. But now dealers are figuring out how to make the most of the data they hold. In turn, they’re helping their customers focus on the Read More

As one of the finance companies serving the office technology dealer community GreatAmerica Financial Services Corporation has a firm grasp on the trends and issues affecting their dealer customers. “We’re seeing more BTA channel dealers interested in moving down the path of Read More