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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 1, 2024—Rafael Castillo-Triana, CEO of The Alta Group’s Latin American Region, will shed light on the market-entry opportunity presented by climate finance at the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s (ELFA) 2024 Legal Forum taking place May 5-7 in Scottsdale, Ariz. Castillo-Triana, along with Alta Director Patricia Voorhees and Ian Robertson, executive director … Read more

Macroeconomic headwinds hindered mergers-and-acquisitions activity in the equipment finance industry last year, according to Jim Jackson, Co-CEO of The Alta Group and leader of its M&A Advisory Practice. In a recent article in the Monitor, he provides an overview of 2023 and what to expect this year. Despite some notable transactions, there was a continued … Read more

There is rising interest in Equipment-as-a-Service, but some in the equipment finance and leasing industry remain unsure about it, according to Diane Croessmann, a director at The Alta Group. In a recent article in the March/April 2024 edition of the National Equipment Finance Association’s Newsline magazine, she takes a closer look at how Equipment-as-a-Service can … Read more

Climate finance presents an unprecedented market opportunity for the equipment finance industry, as the global energy transition drives a tremendous movement of capital, significant changes in policy and the deployment of new technologies to address climate change. The combination of massive amounts of capital, rapidly changing global policies and new and untested technologies means that … Read more

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