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Praetura unites its five brands

Peadar OReilly This move unites Kingsway Finance, Praetura Asset Finance, Praetura Commercial Finance, Praetura Invoice Finance and Zodeq under the Praetura name. The transition will retain the Praetura name and logo, but will introduce a refreshed brand style...

STAR AF Group joins NACFB

STAR AF Group logo All four STAR Asset Finance Group companies, First Capital Finance, Credo Capital Finance, Ignition Credit and Kennet Leasing, have joined the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers. Last month the Group passed £3 billion in total funding...

FLA reveals SME resilience

FLA data New figures released this morning by the Finance & Leasing Association reveal how its members across the asset finance spectrum provided £110.8 billion of new lending in the eight months to August 2026, 4pct higher than in the same period in 2025...

Long Read: who are you dealing with?

KYC phone call Our Contributing Editor Allan Foad recalls how "in his day" all customer contact for a lending proposition would be face to face, maybe backed up with a telephone call or two, but not before a relationship was established...

UTB boosts Materials Handling Finance

Jon Gee Joe Silva UTB Jon Gee (left of picture) joins UTB as Head of Materials Handling after eighteen years at Close Brothers where he rose to become Sales Director. Joe Silva (R) brings ten years' asset finance and MHE experience, and now joins UTB as Regional Dealer Manager...

New podcast tackles productivity

FLA Provocations Leading economist Dr Catherine L Mann joins Robert Gordon, CEO of Novuna, for episode 1 of Provocations, a new podcast series launched today by the Finance & Leasing Association which asks whether the economy has changed faster than the lending system...

Unveiling the LWGOLD26 winners

LWGOLD26 celebration The winners' names have been triumphantly pulled from the awards envelopes -- we can now reveal who has won which category at the 2026 Leasing World Going Further Gold Awards, held in London last night in the company of leasing's best and brightest...

Alfa boosts fleet finance capabilities

Alfa has announced new enhancements to Alfa Systems for Fleet Finance. With fleet providers managing ever-larger portfolios, Alfa Systems now enables organisations to create consolidated vehicle orders, simplifying high-volume fleet acquisitions...

July AF new business up 2%

survey data FLA New figures released this morning by the Finance & Leasing Association (“FLA”) show that asset finance new business (primarily leasing and hire purchase) grew by 2pct in July 2026 compared with the same month in 2025...

UTB welcomes Steve Gee

United Trust Bank ("UTB") has appointed highly experienced asset finance professional Steve Gee as Commercial Director – Asset Finance. Steve (pictured left) joins UTB to lead the development of a new vendor finance business...

Long Read: Artificially Intelligent

complaints In this week's Long Read, Gateley Legal’s Senior Associate Edmund Locock and Trainee Solicitor Ann-Marie Henry consider the ways in which AI is already introducing misinformation into legal proceedings...

Strategic Asset Finance from Reward

Nick Smith Reward Funding is today launching Reward Strategic Asset Finance. Building on Reward’s established relationship-led approach, Reward Strategic Asset Finance combines structured thinking with asset-backed lending...

FLA members provided £98bn Jan-July

FLA data New figures released this morning by the Finance & Leasing Association show that FLA members across the asset finance, consumer finance and motor finance markets provided £98.2 billion of new lending in the first seven months of 2026...

UTB boosts High Value Car team

United Trust Bank Asset Finance has appointed Kate Johnson (pictured) as Regional Broker Manager with a focus on continuing to develop the Bank’s successful High Value Car business. Kate has nearly twenty years of experience in the motor finance industry...

Hopes of Autumn turnaround for SMEs

Novuna survey data Despite a twelve-year low in the percentage of small businesses predicting growth over the summer months (24pct), two in three enterprises say they are working hard on plans to secure future growth, according to research from Novuna Business Finance...

Quickfire Questions with UTB Asset Finance

Astrid Michael at UTB In today’s video e-newsletter, United Trust Bank’s Lauren Angus tells us what question brokers always ask when first meeting her, and Astrid Michael shares her view on what keeps brokers coming back to UTB Asset Finance…

AF new business soars 15% in June

New figures released today by the Finance & Leasing Association (“FLA”) show that asset finance new business (primarily leasing and hire purchase) grew by 15pct in June 2026 compared with the same month in 2025, with growth being broad-based across asset sectors...

Aldermore grows infrastructure team

Aldermore has appointed Kitty Byrne (pictured) as Project Finance Lead to its Energy and Infrastructure team, strengthening its specialist expertise as it expands its support for businesses and projects contributing to the UK's energy transition...

Propel Finance helps SMEs pick Apple

Propel Finance has today announced a new partnership to provide ﬁnance to SMEs investing in Apple products. The programme will be launched with Sync, an Apple Business Partner, as Propel continues to grow its fully digital B2B embedded ﬁnance oﬀering in the UK...

STAR AF strengthens senior leadership team

STAR Asset Finance has announced the promotion of two senior leaders from within the business. Tim Tainty (pictured) has been appointed Group Chief Operating Officer, and Sean Devoy has taken on the role of Chief Financial Officer...

Stance drives record lending at UTB

United Trust Bank Asset Finance has recorded its strongest ever performance over the first seven months of 2026. Nathan Mollett, Managing Director – Asset Finance (left), explained, "Stance complements our established UTB AF business perfectly..."