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Kenneth Bentsen, Jr., Former President, ELFA
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http://www.standardandpoors.co... |
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The Lender Finance Division of Wells Fargo Capital Finance is an industry leader in providing asset-based financing exclusively to specialty commercial finance companies, including equipment finance companies, asset-based lenders, factors, insurance premium finance companies, distressed debt acquisition companies, and a variety of other asset classes. Our veteran team of lenders in the Lender Finance Division has successfully provided over $6 billion in new credit facilities.
Wells Fargo Capital Finance is a leading provider of senior secured financing to companies in a wide range of industries throughout the U.S. We have a large and diversified portfolio of more than 2,300 customers and over $24 billion in loans outstanding. In addition to traditional asset-based financing, we offer accounts receivable financing, purchase order financing, and supply chain financing. Also, our specialty industry groups within Wells Fargo Capital Finance develop facilities tailored to retailers, software and technology companies, staffing companies, government contractors, and timeshare developers. We are one of the most active asset-based lenders in the industry by volume and number of syndicated transactions. And, as a part of Wells Fargo & Company, we offer the full spectrum of products and services you've come to expect from us.
To learn more about Wells Fargo Capital Finance or its Lender Finance division, visit us at www.wellsfargocapitalfinance.com.
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Genpact, a global leader in business process and technology management, has mastered the science behind improved operational performance with Smart Enterprise Processes (SEPSM). By focusing on process effectiveness and intelligent technology management, we deliver 2 to 5 times the business results over conventional approaches and help you foresee, respond and adapt to market changes faster through the combined application of analytics, reengineering and world-class risk management solutions. Our industry-specific services encompass all of Genpact's forward thinking and process expertise to help commercial leasing and lending, and equipment finance companies world-wide streamline and manage every phase of the lending cycle, providing the support needed to increase deal conversions, improve fee income and lower costs.
http://www.genpact.com/home/our-services/industries-we-serve/banking-financial-services/commercial-leasing-lending.aspx
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http://www.genpact.com |
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BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American financial services provider offering corporate, institutional and government clients access to a complete range of products and services. These include equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury management, market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading. With 2,300 professionals in offices in 30 locations around the world, including 17 in North America, BMO Capital Markets works proactively with clients to provide innovative and integrated financial solutions.
BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$479 billion total assets and more than 47,000 employees as at October 31, 2011.
The BMO Capital Market Securitization Group is a recognized leader in structuring, managing, distributing, and investing in highly structured ABS transactions. Our team of securitization professionals applies advanced securitization technology across a broad spectrum of asset types and investor markets. For more information, visit www.bmocm.com or contact Dave Kucera, at 312.461.3893.
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Chapman and Cutler LLP represents clients engaged in all aspects of equipment finance, including small ticket and middle market equipment finance. Our clients include independent equipment finance companies and bank leasing and captive finance subsidiaries. We provide legal services related to product origination, portfolio funding and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, as well as ongoing advice on regulatory and other commercial law matters. In addition, we regularly represent funding sources in connection with secured loans to, and other investments in, equipment finance companies.
Assets financed include computers and telecommunications systems, office and medical equipment, renewable energy systems, manufacturing and production assets, and vehicles and other transportation equipment. Funding arrangements handled include warehouse lines, CP conduit transactions, term securitizations and subordinated debt.
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DBRS is a recognized, international rating agency, providing timely and comprehensive rating opinions to the world's capital markets. Privately owned and independent, DBRS offers in-depth credit analysis of corporate, financial institutions and government issues in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. DBRS's extensive coverage of structured finance and securitization has solidified its standing as a leading provider of comprehensive, in-depth credit analysis.
DBRS is headquartered in Toronto with offices in New York, Chicago and London, and covers entities worldwide.
For more information, please visit http://www.dbrs.com.
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Guggenheim Securities, LLC, is a New-York-based registered broker dealer and a subsidiary of Guggenheim Partners, LLC. Our range of expertise includes the sale and trading of structured fixed-income products, U.S. Treasury and agency securities, municipal bonds, high yield and emerging markets securities, equities and commercial real estate debt. Guggenheim Securities provides a value-driven approach to research, trading and investment banking services for a variety of institutional clients. For more information, please email us at contact@guggenheimpartners.com or call us at (212)651-0848.
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Kroll Bond Rating Agency, a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO), was established by Jules Kroll to restore trust in credit ratings by establishing new standards for assessing risk and by offering accurate, clear and transparent ratings. KBRA provides the investment community with an authoritative and informed alternative by delivering ratings designed to meet the highest standards for accuracy and timeliness.
The Kroll name is synonymous with integrity. We are accountable directly to investors because Kroll Bond Ratings is 40%-owned by pension funds and foundations, providing a built-in safeguard against conflicts of interest.
Our organization reflects a culture of putting investors' interests first. Ratings quality precisely defined and monitored is the driving force behind our business strategy.
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PORTFOLIO FINANCIAL SERVICING COMPANY ("PFSC") is one of the largest independent commercial and consumer lease, loan and structured settlement servicing companies in the U.S. Since 1992, PFSC has been an industry leader in providing primary servicing, backup/successor servicing, and related services for lease, loan and structured settlement portfolios. PFSC provides customized full service portfolio management and financial reporting unequaled by any other industry servicer.
In addition to primary and back-up servicing, PFSC offers a full range of a la carte services including vehicle titling services, sales and property tax reporting, document custodian services, lender compliance monitoring, and insurance tracking and claims processing.
With the experience that comes from servicing and managing hundreds of thousands of assets representing billions of dollars in portfolio value, PFSC has the people, processes and technology to cost-effectively provide unsurpassed servicing.
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Seaport was founded in 2001 and has grown to employ over 150 professionals with offices in New York, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Charleston, Chicago, Boston, West Palm Beach and Miami Beach. The ABS team, with collectively over 40 years of industry experience, is based in Miami Beach and is active in secondary trading in distressed ABS sectors including: Subprime, Alt-A and Option Arm, CDO/CLO and CBO, HELOC and Closed End Second Lien, Non-Agency CMO, Agency CMO, Manufactured Housing,Aircraft, Franchise, Subprime Auto, Equipment Lease, Credit Cards and Student Loans.
Evan Kestenberg is a trader in the Seaport structured finance unit. Prior to joining Seaport, Evan was a distressed CDO trader at United Capital Markets. In addition to trading CDO's, Evan traded other non-mortgage ABS sectors. Other former employers include Canyon Capital.
Sean Kirk is a trader in the Seaport structured Finance unit. Prior to joining Seaport, he was a distressed asset and mortgage backed securities trader at United Capital Markets, Bear Stearns and Credit Suisse.
Jeff Humphrey is a trader in the Seaport structured finance unit. Prior to joining Seaport, he worked in the ABS group at United Capital Markets, and the corporate bond group at REFCO securities.
Chip Wheeler joined seaport in March 2008. He comes from Bank of America where he was head of AAA Subprime Mortgage ABS and AAA Consumer ABS (Cards, Autos, Student Loans) trading. Chip worked for Bear Stearns in the same capacity for 3 years after being an ABS Research analyst there for 6 years. Chip started his career at Credit Suisse First Boston in ABS/MBS research in 1992.
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Assurant Specialty Property’s Leased & Financed Equipment Insurance Program is the program of choice in the commercial industry segment. Our vertically integrated platform administers an efficient and comprehensive insurance program, because we are ONE company handling all your insurance needs. Our goal is to maximize revenue and mitigate risk through providing operational efficiencies, such as our post-lease origination verification program, and customized insurance tracking services. For more than 60 years, we have been creating and achieving new ways to add value to our relationship with our clients. Become an Assurant client and discover why Assurant is the Partner of Choice in the Leased and Financed Equipment industry.
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Hogan Lovells provides high quality legal advice to corporations and financial institutions across the full spectrum of their business and legal issues. We have more than 2,300 lawyers operating out of more than 40 offices worldwide.
Hogan Lovells has broad experience in lease and equipment loan securitization, with its lawyers having represented issuers and underwriters in public and private transactions.We work on established securitization programs but also work with and understand the needs of new issuers in the market.
Our style is commercial,service focused and friendly. We believe that our commitment to client service and teamwork provides benefits to our clients and enhances effective business relationships. For further information, please contact Peter Humphreys at (212) 918 8250 or email peter.humphreys@hoganlovells.com.
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LeaseDimensions is a true third-party loan and lease servicing provider, delivering comprehensive Portfolio Servicing, ASP System hosting, IT Outsourcing and Technology Consulting to companies in the equipment, vehicle and commercial asset finance industries. We are retained to service loan and lease portfolios by clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to emerging growth organizations. Our services encompass commercial and consumer customers and include a wide array of equipment, vehicle and specialty assets.
Our break-through strategy has been to leverage our unique blend of lending, transaction processing and technical expertise to create customized, value-added enterprise solutions. This leveraged approach is specifically designed to maximize a client's portfolio investment.
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http://www.leasedimensions.com |
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SNR Denton is a client-focused international legal practice delivering quality and value. We serve clients in key business and financial centers from more than 60 locations worldwide, through offices, associate firms and special alliances across the US, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the CIS, Asia Pacific and Africa, making us a top 25 legal services provider by lawyers and professionals. Joining the complementary top tier practices of its founding firms—Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP and Denton Wilde Sapte LLP—SNR Denton offers business, government and institutional clients premier service and a disciplined focus to meet evolving needs in eight key industry sectors: Energy, Transport and Infrastructure; Financial Institutions and Funds; Government; Health and Life Sciences; Insurance; Manufacturing; Real Estate, Retail and Hotels; and Technology, Media and Telecommunications. Please see snrdenton.com for more information.
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Educational Partner |
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The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association is a global community of dedicated finance practitioners committed to excellence in alternative investment education. Through the CAIA Association's boards and world-wide membership, we keep our finger on the pulse of the industry while staying true to our founding goal to elevate the standards of AI knowledge and professionalism across the investment world.
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AllAboutAlpha.com is an online strategic information service for the asset management and hedge fund industries. Like a research firm, we immerse ourselves in the latest academic research, scan the headlines and provide subscribers with what we think they need to know as the asset management industry enters a period of rapid evolution. Like a "blog," we deliver those insights in a manner that is easy to digest, frequent and tempered by our own unique view of the world.
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http://www.AllAboutAlpha.com |
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The premier newsletter for European structured finance news and commentary covering securitization, covered bonds, derivatives and other structured debt.
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Securitization professionals rely on each weekly issue of Asset-Backed Alert for its hard-to-get news and statistics on asset-backed and mortgage-backed securitization activities throughout the world. The newsletter's coverage takes a forward-looking approach, routinely tipping off subscribers to emerging risks and opportunities in securitization. To start your free-trial subscription, call 201-659-1700 or visit www.ABAlert.com.
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Asset Securitization Report, StructuredFinanceNews.com, is the securitization market's most trusted source and the premier destination for news within the structured finance industry. Asset Securitization Report is read by a senior-level audience with more than two-thirds of readers influencing purchasing decisions at their firms. For advertising inquiries please contact Louis V. Fugazy, Associate Publisher, at 212.803.8773 or louis.fugazy@sourcemedia.com.
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BarclayHedge is dedicated to serving institutional clients worldwide in the field of hedge fund and managed futures performance measurement and portfolio management. BarclayHedge, formerly known as The Barclay Group, was founded in 1985, and consists of a team of research specialists, programmers, and data admin personnel experienced in alternative investments.
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An independent proprietary intelligence service covering all aspects of public M&A across the Americas, Europe and Asia, tailored to Hedge Funds and the buy side community. dealReporter tracks announced deals, expected deals, special situations, spin-offs and evaluates market rumours of anticipated transactions.
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A proprietary intelligence and research tool providing time-sensitive market analysis on all aspects of High Yield and Distressed Credits across Americas, Latin America and Europe. Debtwire is targeted to a customer base of Hedge Funds, Proprietary Traders, High Yield Fund Managers and the restructuring departments of the major law firms and investment banks.
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Since 1988, equipment providers have turned to Equipment Data Associates to improve their direct marketing effectiveness. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, EDA provides accurate equipment-based market intelligence for a variety of industries, including agriculture, construction, lift trucks, logging, machine tools, trucking and woodworking.
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ELFA SmartBrief brings you the latest news for equipment finance professionals. Our editors handpick key articles from hundreds of publications, do a brief summary of each and provide links back to the original sources. In other words, we do all the research...and you get the news you need, without the fluff.
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The Journal of Structured Finance (JSF) is the only international, peer-reviewed journal devoted to empirical analysis and practical guidance on structured finance instruments, techniques, and strategies. JSF offers insightful, comprehensive research and commentary on all aspects of structured finance. JSF provides detailed analysis on structuring and investing in products such as ABSs, CDOs, CLOs, and MBSs.
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An independent M&A proprietary intelligence tool providing announced and unannounced proprietary origination intelligence and deal flow opportunities direct from corporates. mergermarket is specifically targeted to generate mandates for the investment banking, legal, private equity, acquisition finance, public relations and corporate markets.
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MergerID is a powerful and innovative M&A tool that was designed to fulfil the need in the M&A mid-market space for an online global marketplace. It works by matching up the M&A requirements of both buyers and sellers, whether they are in far-flung countries or just around the corner.
MergerID shrinks the distance, removes the barriers, and overcomes the incomplete knowledge between the various parties in the M&A market. Specifically designed for use by corporations, private equity firms, investors, investment banks and family offices, MergerID provides a secure online environment to post and view global M&A opportunities.
MergerID is part of The Mergermarket Group, a division of the Financial Times Group, publisher of the Financial Times newspaper and FT.com. The FT Group is a division of Pearson plc, the international media group.
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Monitor Print & Digital Publications
Now in its 39th year of publication, the Monitor is the only independent print publication serving the equipment finance industry. Each year the Monitor serves eight issues including its annual Monitor 100 and special Fall Conference issues.
Advertisers reach 6,500 nationwide wide subscribers, over 75% of who hold the title of vice president and above. In addition, over 3,000 of Monitor subscribers also receive the newly revamped MonitorDigital edition that provides unique reader friendly features as well as rich media opportunities for advertisers that are not available in print.
Monitor Online - monitordaily.com
Re-launched in 2011, Monitor's new website, monitordaily.com, provides its 30,000 monthly visitors with current industry news and vocational information that is only available from the Monitor's rich trove of exclusive article and feature story archives. New features include user- friendly searchability, industry sector updates and full access to new industry related resources. And no other medium in the equipment finance industry provides a better way to stimulate industry specific applicant activity via its exclusive Classified Job Opportunities pages.
Monitor E-News Update - Daily & Weekly
The monitordaily.com's Daily E-News Update has consistently provided its nationwide audience of 8,000 registered subscribers with daily news and industry specific information since its launch in 1998. Daily E-News Update sponsors enjoy the benefit of real time reach and visibility with engagement opportunities afforded through direct hot-links to designated web pages. In 2011, the Monitor's new Weekly Wrap-Up fills a void for the busy executive by ensuring that nothing was missed from the previous week's most popular news stories. This exclusive new media platform will be limited to three (3) advertisers per broadcast.
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WORLD LEASING NEWS - CONNECTING LEASING PROFESSIONALS IN THE U.S. AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
World Leasing News is the 24/7 source of information for the equipment leasing industry. It is the most well read online leasing periodical in the world! Providing news, online articles and features, our content is unique, current and relevant - focusing exclusively on the leasing industry.
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