All articles by Julian Rose

The asset register that isn’t an asset register

Post Brexit and CMA, is the leasing market ready for some fintech attention?

The Competition and Markets Authority is putting its faith in a fintech solution to disrupt the big banks’ dominance of SME banking. While the implications for leasing may only be indirect, they could still be significant says Asset Finance Policy’s Julian Rose

Minimum standards: who needs them?

Last month Leasing Life talked to the NACFB, the FLA and Close Brothers about a minimum set of standards for brokers in the UK. Julian Rose, director of assetfinancepolicy.co.uk, responds.

What does the competition regulator know about leasing?

Julian Rose examines whether investigations into SME lending by the Competition and Market Authority will spice up the mix for leasing businesses

9½ years – a difficult relationship

Consultant Julian Rose, former head of asset finance at the Finance & Leasing Association examines the fraught relationship between the IASB and the leasing industry

Extend green tax breaks

When the FLA held its first low-carbon leasing seminar, in February 2010, one of the concerns was that the Carbon Trusts interest-free loan scheme to help small and medium-sized enterprises invest in energy saving projects was an obstacle to the development of the leasing market for low-carbon equipment

Extend green tax breaks, urges FLA

When the FLA held its first low-carbon leasing seminar, in February 2010, one of the concerns expressed by delegates was that the Carbon Trusts interest-free loan scheme to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) invest in energy saving projects was an obstacle to the early development of the leasing market for low-carbon equipment

Going to the root of the problem

Last month, Leasing Life published an article titled What price a good reputation which explored whether the industry, and the FLA, is doing enough to safeguard customers from rogue suppliers Readers of Leasing Life will know that over the past year there have been problems in the UK connected to sales-aid leasing into the technology equipment market.

How the government can ensure asset finance lending does not collapse

The credit crunch started in the summer of 2007, and led to increased use of asset finance at one point, FLA statistics showed business finance 10 per cent up on business levels the previous year.