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Recent Articles
Monitor 101 Article: IoT Vigilance Urged
Paul Bent’s article published in the Monitor 101+ issue describes what is at stake and steps that companies can take to protect themselves in transactions with Internet of Things (IOT) to consider. Bent urges equipment finance businesses to be “vigilant in their knowledge, understanding, and application of IoT devices and sensors installed in ‘traditional’ equipment … Read more
What’s Happening Now to Shape Our Future?
by Valerie L. Gerard, James Jackson, Carl Chrappa, Diane Croessman, Patricia Voorhees, Rick Remiker and Gary LoMonaco Monitor 100 2022The future of equipment financing requires resiliency and innovation. Adapting to economic changes and customers’ evolving needs and building closer stakeholder relationships are key components to maintaining success in the coming future. Alta advisors share their … Read more
Lessons learned to develop today’s best practices for funding
Lessons learned from past stresses in financial markets were critical to how the equipment finance and leasing industry weathered global disruptions caused by the COVID 19 pandemic. The knowledge that industry leaders had gained and the best practices they subsequently developed around their funding operations led to better-than-expected performance in recent years. That’s among the … Read more
“Reshaping Vendor Programs with a New Generation of Leadership” Covers Emerging Trends as Featured In the Monitor
Sustaining market relevance is a key challenge for vendor programs with a long history of providing equipment and service suppliers with turn-key financing options. The relationships they cultivated with program partners are rooted in collaboration and the ability to adapt to change, and now a new generation of leadership is driving more change that will … Read more
Target Operating Model Should Be Designed for Continuous Transformation in Equipment Finance
Digital and business transformation in our industry must be continuous and while technology plays a vital role, it is only one of the pillars for renewal of in-market approaches and organisational processes. This is the crux of an article written by Kieran O’Brien, an Alta consultant with Invigors EMEA who is based in Ireland. With … Read more
Looking on the Sunny Side at Equipment Finance M&As
Most of us were happy to wave 2021 goodbye. Continuing Covid, supply chain issues, inflation – need we say more? Turns out it was a strong year for merger and acquisition activity in the US equipment finance industry, particularly the second half, says James (Jim) Jackson in the Monitor’s second issue of 2022. His article … Read more