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Welcome to the Oaklease Blog

The OakLease blog is both the longest established equipment leasing blog on the web, and by far, the most read. It will cover both equipment leasing and equipment finance in the UK as well as in Europe. We do endeavour to avoid any financial jargon, and we hope that it is as if we are chatting to each other, over a drink in the bar. We are just like you, real people in the real world!

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Standing still, not an option!
Standing still, not an option!

Back in the mid seventies, when I first started in Leasing,  the company I was with launched a sliding  card lease calculator, which worked out the lease rentals for every £100 increase…

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Nice to know you are right !!
Nice to know you are right !!

This was published yesterday on an international leasing website. They must have read what I said last month !!   “New global prudential regulations are likely to bring a material…

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Every Cloud has a silver lining
Every Cloud has a silver lining

hey say every cloud has a silver lining, although in this present financial climate, you have to dig pretty deep.   The crisis over the Eurozone, is deepening, even if…

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What lies ahead for leasing
What lies ahead for leasing

After a break, I thought that I should start up again with my thoughts on where we are now, and what lies ahead.   Leasing at the moment is moving…

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Moving the Goal Posts !
Moving the Goal Posts !

In this present financial situation that we find ourselves locked into, we are all fully aware that change has hit the leasing industry.   The change is not for the…

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Overcoming the Credit Freeze
Overcoming the Credit Freeze

We always expect January to be a cold month, as the winds from the North sweep down the country. This year it is not so much as the icy weather,…

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Credit Freeze
Credit Freeze

Just as winter starts, the crunch turns to a freeze, how appropiate. Hear is the news that many people are unaware of, M4 Money ( Private Sector Money) fell to…

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Now for some common sense
Now for some common sense

The media is discovering that credit crunch news is making people either change channels on the TV or turn off the news. Saturation point has been reached, but they still…

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Stormy Weather
Stormy Weather

The British are well known that we talk about the weather. Here is today’s forecast. There is a very cold wind blowing across Iceland, with a deepening Atlantic depression moving…

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