On January 30, 2012, the Australian Attorney-General's Department (AGD) made live the new Australian Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR), allowing all registered Australian finance organizations to electronically lodge, amend and remove interests in registered securities.

The move heralds the start of a fundamentally new approach to dealing with security interest in almost all assets other than real property.

Jarrod Bradley

Being a market leader brings advantages but it undoubtedly brings its own pressures too. Maintaining that position demands insight into pinpointing where growth will come from and a clear understanding of how it will be achieved.

Jarrod Bradley, AUF Director explained: “As one of the UK's largest independent vehicle and finance brokerage to both personal and corporate customers, Auto Union Finance plc (AUF) embarked on a programme of expansion at a time when many of its competitors were scaling back their operations. We see this is as a bold statement of intent in the current economic climate.”

Kubota is a world leader in compact tractors, ground care equipment and excavators. Noted for innovation, the company was seeking a better way to help their extensive dealer network and end customers with more effective and flexible ways to finance their products.

Kubota Australia Finance (KAF), a division of Kubota Tractor Australia, has adopted White Clarke Group’s (WCG) end-to-end asset finance solution, CALMS2, working to an aggressive seven-month implementation plan, from initial analysis to going live.

Jon Fales

Nearly one-third of companies interviewed by IDC Research for an equipment leasing industry survey completed in December 2011 plan to use external leasing or financing for cloud initiatives.

Inquiries about cloud computing received by The Alta Group from information technology (IT) vendor executives center on how to formulate an entirely new form of financing that requires adjusting internal relationships (including cost allocations) and external market approaches - particularly pricing and transaction structuring.