Alta-led Research on “What’s Hot” in Equipment Markets Now Available

For the 11th year in a row, construction equipment dominated the field of 15 equipment categories ranked in the Equipment Leasing & Finance Association’s “What’s Hot/What’s Not” Equipment Market Forecast for 2024. This year’s survey also found that equipment finance companies have become less optimistic about all types of equipment, due to rising interest rates, … Read more

How Generative AI Must Transform Equipment Finance

AI Digital Transformation in the Equipment Finance Industry

The time is coming when the equipment finance industry will be transformed by generative AI applications, whose deep-learning models turn enterprise data into rich, original content. This transformation will have seismic, positive impacts on all industry processes and operations, but getting there from here will require a lot more deliberate thinking about how to do … Read more

Sustainability – Can We Really Solve for People, Planet & Profit?

Hand showing green planet visualizing sustainability of asset financing

One of the recurring themes we get asked about currently in different contexts is the perhaps somewhat cynical question, do customers of the asset finance world really care about sustainability? The underlying question is often actually more in the direction of, are customers willing to pay some form of premium for a sustainable finance offering? … Read more

It’s Time to Prepare for CFPB Section 1071 Requiring Extensive Data Collection from Small Business Credit Applicants

Regulatory Compliance

(The following is an analysis of the potential impact of an impending federal rule that will establish requirements for finance companies to collect and report certain kinds of data from small business credit applicants. It’s based on comments made by Paul Bent, Senior Managing Director of The Alta Group, during an interview that Equipment Finance Advisor Publisher … Read more

“Reshaping Vendor Programs with a New Generation of Leadership” Covers Emerging Trends as Featured In the Monitor

Business people in meeting - vendor program discussions

Sustaining market relevance is a key challenge for vendor programs with a long history of providing equipment and service suppliers with turn-key financing options. The relationships they cultivated with program partners are rooted in collaboration and the ability to adapt to change, and now a new generation of leadership is driving more change that will … Read more