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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

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

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

(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