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Industry Topics
Energy
- How to Be Green - How to reduce your carbon footprint
- E-Signature, Electronic Chattel Paper
- Fraud - What are the newest techniques to stop fraud?
- How will you fund yourself over the next 5 years? What position do regional banks have in future funding?
- Alternative Funding Strategies – How Industrial Banks Can be the go-to funding source
- Have/Have not's – will those taking deposits be in favor? Will the government invest in some entities and do away with others?
- Calculating costs of capital
- Effect of inflation on liquidity
- Emerging in overlap between managed solutions and what replaces overlapping leases
- Combines leases and service into one combine document (one combined transaction vehicle)
- Possibly syndication
- Mid-Market Forum: Experiences and Best Practices from the Small to Mid-Size Players of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Industry
- Regulatory Issues: The impact of regulations on the industry - What will equipment finance look like in 5 years?
- Exploring the impacts of evolving US public policy on the equipment leasing and finance industry
- Opportunities presented in the recent IRA act
- Looking back to go forward. What happened when tax rates went up? What happened to our industry when tax breaks were given?
- US Taxes and Their Global Effect: Operating in a global multi-gasp environment.
- Impact of AI on the industry