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Sotiris Kanaris

Volkswagen Financial Services appoints four corporate sales managers

Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS) has expanded its national sales team with the appointment of four new corporate sales managers.

Hertz Equipment Rental to split from rental car business

Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation (HERC), the equipment rental business of Hertz Global Holdings, is to become a stand-alone, publicly-traded company later this year.

ELFA: US new business volume falls 2% in February

US new business volume was down 2% year-on-year in February at $6.1bn (€5.5bn), according to the monthly index of the US Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA).

Secure Trust Bank provides two asset based finance facilities

Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance has provided asset based finance facilities to Infiniti Films and White Knight Laundry Services.

Leasing Life Power 50 nomination period opens

Leasing Life has opened the nomination period for its annual Power 50. This year, the Power 50 will feature a ‘nomination period,’ during which readers may nominate as many people as they wish to be eligible for the Power 50, before the actual Power 50 voting period opens.

Cooper named ABFA Chair

Martin Cooper, senior vice-president of operations at Firstsource, has been appointed as chair of the Asset Based Finance Association (ABFA).

Hitachi Capital: business retention worries escalate for UK SMEs

Business retention was the biggest worry for one in three UK SMEs (33%) in Q1 2016, according to Hitachi Capital’s British Business Barometer.

Fleet Logistics sets up preferred dealer network in UK

Independent fleet management provider Fleet Logistics has set up a preferred dealer network in the UK.

Alphabet International new business grows by 15%

Fleet lessor Alphabet International reported new business growth of 15% year-on-year in 2015, which it said was an outperformance of the market average.

Bibby and Close Brothers provide funding to UK Fire Doors

UK Fire Doors’ growth continued with an invoice finance facility from Bibby Financial Services and an asset finance facility from Close Brothers Business Finance.