Technology & Innovation

The equipment finance technology market has undergone a linguistic event: everything is now AI. The document platform is AI-powered. The scorecard vendor has an AI...

The equipment finance industry, surveying its AI adoption, has diagnosed itself with a technology problem: too many pilots, too few production deployments, a landscape of...

Every equipment finance institution now has an AI strategy, or at least a slide describing one. The slides are remarkably similar — document automation, smarter...

Our recent articles on risk has argued that fraud is a credit cycle nobody models — planted in booms, when volume pressure is high and...

Equipment finance was built on a single elegant premise: if the obligor stops paying, the lender takes the thing back, and the thing is worth...

At a Glance Replacing the origination platform is not an IT project; it is a multi-year capital-allocation decision that belongs in the language the board...

At a Glance Data center construction is the largest concentrated equipment demand cycle in the market, and few equipment lenders are competing seriously for it....

At a Glance 53% of equipment finance executives with technology-heavy OEM coverage have lost or failed to renew a multi-year manufacturer refresh program in the...

At a Glance A Secured Research survey found that 46% of equipment dealers who abandoned a financing submission cited portal complexity as the primary reason—not...

At a Glance Dealer attrition in vendor finance programs correlates more strongly with operational friction—documentation delays, unclear stipulations, inconsistent communication—than with pricing or credit appetite....