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HSBC: £2 billion rail sale looming HSBC is to sell its train leasing business, HSBC Rail, for a price of £2 billion (2.27 billion) Australian financial services group Macquarie and investment giant JPMorgan are understood to be interested in making the purchase as a joint venture, while Star Capital is also in the bidding

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Lessors launch bids to buy General Capital

Leasing companies and finance entrepreneurs have launched bids to buy the remaining portfolios of the two General Capital companies that collapsed into administration earlier this month, Leasing Life has learnt Tarun Mistry, the head of leasing and advisory services at Grant Thornton involved in the administration, said that he had seen quite a lot of interest for the leasing portfolios of the two companies, General Capital Venture Finance Ltd and General Capital Finance Ltd. The companies asset finance business, which is larger than their two other arms which specialise in venture capital and property finance, has a portfolio of around 700 lease contracts to SMEs worth in total around £8 million plus interest

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Basement talk

Shoes were worn down at the FLA dinner, as guests quickly cantered between the numerous pre- and post-dinner knees-ups organised by the high and mighty of the English legal profession and UK lease consultancies

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Ubi Leasing, Italys third-largest leasing company, increased its market share in 2009, despite a fall in volume and profit The Brescia-headquartered lessor, which is part of Ubi Banca, recorded a new business volume of almost 2.1bn, 25% down compared with the previous year

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Back in business

Last month, Leasing Life reported on growth plans from WestWon Capital, Associated Commercial Finance, Capital Solutions Group, and Premier Asset Finance, an outfit comprising ex-Bank of Scotland (BoS) sales veterans.

Databank

No doubt worsened by the bad weather, FLA member business finance volumes continued their downward slide. Excluding big ticket volumes, business finance notably fell below the £1bn (1.1bn) mark, about half the level of 2007 and 2008 and 18% below 2009

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On the move

UniCredit Leasing has recently appointed a new head of global sales and products Jacopo Benucci has been working with UniCredit since 2005 focusing on the CEE market and Turkey first and being involved in UniCredit Leasing strategic planning after

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Daimler FS restructures German business

Daimler Financial Services (Daimler FS) has announced a restructuring of its business activities in Germany, with all the central functions for the German and global businesses now operating under one roof.

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Q1 results released for Czech leasing market

Members of the Czech Leasing and Finance Association (CLFA) saw volumes of equipment and vehicle leasing fall by almost 20% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2010 to about 326m (CZK8.34bn). By product type, the share of operating leasing from the total of equipment and transport leasing rose to 28.3%. Vehicle leasing remained dominant with the share of passenger car leasing rising from 22.7% to 33.8%.

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Siemens Financial Services' profits down in Q1

Siemens Financial Services (SFS) posted a profit before income tax of 97m in the first quarter of 2010, down from 117m reported in the same period of 2009. In the first half of the fiscal year, however, SFS reported a rise in profits compared to the first half of 2009, from 183m to 197m. The first six months of the fiscal year were marked by higher results in commercial finance, including lower loss reserves

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Grenkeleasing expects ?28m profit in 2010

Germanys Grenkeleasing expects to expand again this year, forecasting a significant growth in new business and profits. Grenkeleasings deputy chairman Uwe Hack said in the first quarter of 2010 the group, including franchise partners, increased new business by 26.6%.

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Upwards and onwards

Little more than six months after it was created as a separate entity to Leumi ABL, Leumi Invoice Finance has identified potential candidates to which it hopes to upsell asset-based lending services.

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GE funds seafood MBO

GE Capital has provided Redditch-based Visual Foods Holdings Ltd with a £4.75m (5.6m) working capital facility, comprising a £3.5m invoice discounting facility, and a £1.25m inventory finance facility. The injection allowed Visuals management team to buy out the business, including subsidiaries Visual Foods Ltd and Dragon Delight Foodservice Ltd, from parent group British Seafood, which entered administration in February.

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MAN FS scoops first B&Q deal

MAN Financial Services has won a deal to finance 19 new MAN ten-tonne rigids for B&Q, the UK do-it-yourself chain. These are the first ever MAN trucks for B&Q, which traditionally used a mixed fleet of light vans and 18 tonners for its home delivery services.

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On the move

The British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA) has appointed Neil Cunningham as its new vice-chairman He has over 25 years of experience in the vehicle rental industry, and was responsible for Hertzs entry into the car sharing market in 2008.

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Porterbrook 'saves European company bond sales'

UK rolling stock lessor Porterbrook Rail has offered £520m (628m) of bonds to investors today (4 June), according to reports. Prior to this, deals from Air Liquide, the worlds largest producer of industrial gases, and state-owned German rail company Deutsche Bahn, on 2 and 3 June, had failed to keep issuance from heading towards a total short of 2.1bn.

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Bank VTB Armenia to join VTB Leasing 'in a month'

Bank VTB Armenia is to merge with VTB Leasing within a month, it has been reported. Mher Grigorian, deputy CEO of Bank VTB Armenia, is said to have made the announcement that the bank will handle all transactions Russian lessor VTB was planning to carry out in Armenia at a news conference this month.

Deutsche Leasing to remain steady in Spain and Portugal

Deutsche Leasing is expecting its business in Spain and Portugal in the fiscal year 2009-10, ending 30 September, to stay at about the same level as the previous year, it has been reported. CEO Hans-Michael Heitmueller is said to have stated that the companys business outside Germany could post profits pushing into hundreds of millions of euros.