10 Vital KPIs for Measuring the Value of Your Digital-Banking Operations in 2024
There’s no denying that Covid did to digitalization what no technology evangelist could. For several years prior to 2020, digital banking usage at PNC had increased at the steady rate of about a percentage point every quarter — until it went ballistic during the lockdown. It jumped from the beginning of the year where digital […]
Credit Scoring in the New Economic Reality – How AI Helps Make Better Decisions Much Faster
Your company’s lending program is only as good as its credit scoring. More than any other non-macro factor, how — and how deeply — your company assesses prospective borrowers will determine the size and profitability of its lending program.
Five Key Business Models Available for POS Financing
Valued at $90.69 billion in 2020, the pay later market is projected to reach $3.98 trillion by 2030. And of course that was before the coronavirus pandemic shredded short- and medium-term financial forecasts for businesses and households alike. We’ve also collected the five key reasons to consider POS financing for retailers in a recent blog […]
Why Everybody is Talking About Lending Technology These Days
The 2020s were already destined to be a time of profound change for businesses, but Covid-19 clinched it. Just weeks after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, businesses began accelerating uptake of hardware as well as conferencing and work-sharing software to support employees suddenly required to work from home. Meanwhile, […]
How Contractors Can Boost Sales and Deepen Customer Relationships by Providing Dynamic Financing
The ability to provide financing to homeowners eager to engage your services for home improvements can be a vital differentiator, putting your contracting business on equal footing with national hardware chains and top regional competitors. For many homeowners, a tactical approach to debt is vital to making home improvements affordable. After all, the total outlay […]
Six Irrefutable Reasons NOT to Purchase Capital Equipment with a Credit Card
“Our clients already have credit cards, so why would we use an in-house financing platform?” Sometimes we get variations on this sensible question from capital-equipment makers and distributors, so we’d like to give it the attention it deserves. Businesses of all sizes and kinds have long used credit cards to fund equipment purchases. After all, […]
Five Ways Invoice Financing Can Benefit Your Company
Sometimes your small or midsize B2B clients experience cash-flow delays. They’ve got money due in from their customers — with invoices to prove it — but their ability to do business with you is curtailed by timing issues: they simply don’t have the cash on hand to buy your products or services while meeting other […]
Equipment Suppliers Can Save Time and Win New Business with Digital Financing
For the businesses that buy, rent or lease capital-equipment from your company, a traditional approach to equipment financing isn’t always optimal — which means it’s not always in your best interests either. US companies finance nearly $1 trillion in equipment annually, according to the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, making it a vital engine for economic growth. Traditionally, the financing […]
Providing Optimal Equipment Financing To Construction Companies
There’s no shortage of financing options for construction-equipment suppliers. Given the overall size of the US market for capital equipment financing — now approaching $2 trillion a year by one estimate — it makes sense a host of banks and non-bank lenders would have crowded into the field, eager to help builders get their hands on the equipment they […]
Top 12 Industries That Can Benefit From Smart Equipment Financing In 2021 (And Beyond)
US businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies are expected to lease or finance $1.8 trillion in capital equipment from manufacturers and dealers in 2021. This will give equipment makers and dealers like you a lead position in this nation’s post-Covid economic recovery. It also highlights two major business considerations for equipment suppliers. First, they should expect more […]
How to Make your Bank a Digital Winner in a Post-Covid Economy
Early in 2020, just weeks before the coronavirus closed businesses around the world, news articles on bank digitalization underlined shareholder impatience with financial institutions for “betting billions of dollars on digital transformations they hope will catapult them to higher growth rates in the 2020s,” and for “spending wildly on the latest tech.” What a difference a pandemic […]
Capital-Equipment Financiers: Boost The Value Of Your Best Clients With Dynamic Leasing
As a capital-equipment provider, you know that most marketing seeks to attract new customers. But the serious business of appealing to customers shouldn’t stop once they’re through the door for the first time, whether the boundary in question is real or virtual. The point of encouraging return business is embedded in something called “customer lifetime […]