Leasing Life asset finance e-journal

Lead stories

Back in business

In April, a business confidence survey published by Leasing Life and researched by the consultancy Invigors revealed that the European leasing sector was reeling from the effects of the recession. Similar research carried out last month shows much has changed for the better. Over the next four ...

Features

Ready for 2010

Jason T Hesse speaks with Jean-Marc Mignerey and Cécile André about what 2010 holds for Europe’s biggest equipment finance company. Jean-Marc Mignerey, SG Equipment Finance’s (SGEF) CEO, sees three growth engines for his business in the future: the US, Brazil and China. “Our rationale is our ...

With a firm destination in mind

Now the dust has settled after GE Capital’s restructuring process, John Jenkins and Gary Killeen tell Jo Tacon what has changed. It has been an eventful year at GE Capital, and its fleet unit has been by no means an exception. The UK corporate finance business has been thoroughly restructured as ...

German leasing in 2010: consolidation and acquisition

As German savings banks looks set to acquire chunks of the embattled Landesbanken sector, Fred Crawley asks if Deutsche Leasing will take an even greater share of the German leasing pie. Germany’s public banking system funds the majority of leasing done outside the captive finance sector, and has ...

What German lessors plan to do in 2010

Deutsche Leasing New business: €9 billion Number of employees (end 2008): 1,906 Despite the dire state of the econ omy, Germany’s largest lessor, Deutsche Leasing, expects new business to grow by 5 percent this year, and the same again in 2010. With a portfolio of €31 billion, Deutsche Leasing ...