The smartfunders' blog
Get the latest insight from our team of finance experts
18 August 2008
As a relatively new face at smartfundit.com, I thought it about time to write my first blog!
On a day-to-day basis, the majority of my
Read More...
14 August 2008
In today’s current economic climate, hearing about a company, large or small, celebrating financial success is rare, extremely rare unless you are of the BP
Read More...
12 August 2008
Many of my contemporaries like to pick my brain about my view of the Financial Services industry, not because of any inherent wisdom I may
Read More...
21 July 2008
What does the credit crunch actually mean for the technology leasing market where smartfundit.com operates?
My view is that companies will need to look outside their
Read More...
16 July 2008
Two weeks ago, I was at an airport many miles away and happened to come across a very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal.
Read More...
15 July 2008
Whenever you think of the word finance, what word springs to mind? Money, assets, business, risk?
If you put the word “finance” into Google, the
Read More...
3 July 2008
Software can be a significant investment for any company, and not just in financial terms. There’s the sheer amount of time and resource involved –
Read More...
23 June 2008
One minute, we’re approaching a recession; the next, the economy is experiencing an upturn. It’s hard to keep up with what’s really going on in
Read More...
30 May 2008
In a previous blog entry, I wrote about a printing firm who was hit by a bad debt, ruining cashflow and threatening a profitable business
Read More...
2 May 2008
The equipment and high technology leasing business in the United States is at a crossroads in the fundamentals of its business model across all types
Read More...
2 May 2008
There is a deep well of money in the private equity sector and leasing and asset finance companies can be attractive investment propositions. Why would
Read More...
29 April 2008
A large majority of my customers are being affected by the global credit crunch. A number of them have reported a downturn in turnover, whilst
Read More...
11 April 2008
A common media keyword at the moment is “Green”, closely followed by “Carbon Footprint”. The impact of this increased environmental consciousness has been duly noted
Read More...
7 March 2008
I wrote last week about the Public Sector and the NHS in particular. I was subsequently emailed with a number of questions and, as it
Read More...
3 March 2008
I recently attended a telebriefing from IDC on their predictions for the year ahead for the IT leasing and finance industry. More and more businesses
Read More...
3 March 2008
We’ve recently launched the Winter ’08 release of our online technology finance marketplace. So when you next log in, you’ll see some big improvements to
Read More...
10 December 2007
I have mentioned in a few of my previous blog entries about how solving a complex situation for a customer is not just rewarding for
Read More...
23 November 2007
One of the lesser known things about smartfundit.com is the sizeable machinations going on behind the scenes to help get tricky deals underwritten. Whilst smartfundit
Read More...
5 November 2007
It surprises me when I hear that people do not want to use finance to acquire the latest technology. A friend of mine (who may not
Read More...
31 October 2007
Last week I was on a conference call where one of the participants suggested that smartfundit.com could act as a “SaaS Lite” solution. Now I
Read More...
29 October 2007
With analysts Gartner predicting that 25% of all software will be delivered on a subscription basis by 2010, ISVs are increasingly making the transition to
Read More...
29 October 2007
We live in a world that is stuck in fast-forward, in a world that is built for speed. We are obsessed with it, desperately trying
Read More...
26 October 2007
This is a phrase I am more used to using. Having said in my last blog that I thought Alistair Darling had made a fundamental mistake
Read More...
19 October 2007
With the IT leasing and technology finance market set to grow to 0billion by 2010, more and more businesses recognise that paying up-front for their
Read More...
19 October 2007
It’s not just technology vendors who recognise the benefits of finance for their customers. We’ve been getting increasing levels of interest from other businesses who
Read More...