Apr 11, 2024: A flood of cheap Chinese BEVs may look attractive to a region intent on reducing its carbon footprint to zero by 2050. But now the EU is faced with a deluge of auto imports, Ursula Von Leyen president of the European Commission, instead announced l...
 
Apr 10, 2024: The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) has announced the resignation of Paul Goodman as chair and director, after nearly 14 years of service, including a decade as chair. There is no doubt he has made a considerable contribu...
 
Apr 09, 2024: Last December the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) issued a super-complaint to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) highlighting the harsh lending practices of banks that demand excessive personal guarantees (PGs) for business loans. Asset Fin...
 
Apr 04, 2024: Finance companies that will dominate the emerging electric-centric landscape will be those who prepare their sustainable business models now. Laggards will allow policy uncertainties and short-term margin concerns to delay vital strategy planning a...
 
Apr 02, 2024: Benedikt Middendorf, senior director at Deloitte and opening keynote at the AFC Leaders’ Summit in Europe will tell Europe’s auto and equipment finance leaders that the finance companies which will dominate the emerging electric-centric landscape w...
 
Apr 02, 2024: Asset Finance Connect receives over 150 nominations per year for its annual summer awards – this makes competition fierce. Well written, well considered nominations stand more chance of winning because they tell the judges what they need to know, w...
 
Mar 25, 2024: Ian Robertson, partner at Invigors will lead a discussion at the AFC Leaders’ Summit Europe, in Brussels on April 16th, on how the asset finance industry can turn environmental reporting requirements on greenhouses gases (GHG) into business opportu...
 
Mar 22, 2024: John Phillipou, SME Lending Managing Director at Paragon Bank discusses how, after the successful business adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), the Government must now turn its attention to the used market, introducing tax incentives and m...
 
Mar 19, 2024: Bill Stephenson, Global CEO of PEAC Solutions, will deliver the closing keynote at the Asset Finance Connect Leaders’ Summit Europe, that will be held in Brussels on April 16, 2024. Stephenson will share his view that the asset finance divisions o...
 
Mar 14, 2024: Mike Janse will join the opening panel at the inaugural AFC Leaders’ Summit Europe in an agenda which will focus on the commercial and regulatory landscape for auto and equipment finance in the EU in the lead-up to the EU elections in June. The ev...