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Recent Articles
Climate Equipment Finance: Lessons from Australia
Climate equipment finance presents a significant market-entry opportunity for the equipment finance industry. Climate and emissions targets on the books worldwide dictate that the global market opportunity around climate finance is expected to expand significantly through 2050. In the U.S., it is estimated that $27 trillion in capital expenditures across industries is required to hit … Read more
Alta advisors to speak at ELFA Convention
What challenges are you wrestling with as we approach the end of 2024? We’d welcome the opportunity to discuss them with you at the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s 63rd ELFA Annual Convention in Austin later this month. Contact us to set up an appointment Alta advisors to speak at ELFA Convention Two leaders from The … Read more
We are entering the age of “Intelligence-as-a-Service”
Equipment-as-a-Service and Artificial Intelligence are two of the timeliest topics impacting the equipment finance industry in the years ahead. In an article in the July/August 2024 edition of the Monitor, Alta Director Diane Croessmann and Senior Managing Director Paul Bent discuss how these two trends intersect, with major implications for strategic planners and equipment finance … Read more
Defending EF in banks requires asking the right questions
In the first two quarters of 2024, we saw several instances of banks retreating from equipment finance lines of business, a response that had been widely anticipated as a result of the pressures midsize banks have faced in the wake of the spring 2023 bank failures and today’s high-interest-rate environment. As Alta Senior Managing Director … Read more
Championing Equipment Finance within Banks
The Monitor 100 rankings published last month revealed what we predicted in our 2024 Insights report: banks have significantly pulled back their role in equipment finance as a result of the fallout of the bank failures of spring 2023. But as Alta’s Rick Remiker notes, the equipment finance business line holds important long-term value for banks and is worth defending.
How to defend the bank-based equipment finance business line
The ripple effects of the 2023 bank failures continue, with a tight lending market that prompted many banks to focus on preserving capital and pull back from equipment finance, according to Rick Remiker, a vice chairman with The Alta Group.