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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Sales- aid back into equipment leasing
Sales- aid back into equipment leasing

Going back to the start of equipment  leasing, ( I can almost remember that far back!) leasing was used to overcome the price objection, and was a true “sales-aid” The…

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Banking  and Football
Banking and Football

If at the beginning of the Euro 2012 competition, if you were told that the two main winners were Spain and Italy, you would have Spain, yes Italy, no chance….

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Euro 2012  Deja Vu?
Euro 2012 Deja Vu?

We are all aware that in key meetings between countries that are involved in the Euro crisis, everybody normally comes out smiling, saying it was a success, and that progress…

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Funding For Lending, 20 years experience
Funding For Lending, 20 years experience

Last night , the Governor of the Bank of England, and the Chancellor launched a new scheme to assist banks to lend to SME’s. This will apparently cure most of…

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Grand old Duke of York!
Grand old Duke of York!

He marched them up the hill, and marched them down again, does this sound familiar to the euro zone. If in doubt, have a summit! ( poor pun I am…

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Memorable weekend!
Memorable weekend!

This weekend, we are all thinking of enjoying the Jubilee, and to switch off for a few days with friends and family.  Yet in other parts of Europe, it is…

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Decision Day moves closer
Decision Day moves closer

After almost three years of fudge and inertia, the day of reckoning is almost here. Today we will have yet another Euro Summit. This will differ from most of the…

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Euro On the brink ?
Euro On the brink ?

Now the cat is well and truly out of the bag. With David Cameron stating that Europe has to sort out the Euro. What a surprise! The new phrase that…

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Robert Peston must read this blog!
Robert Peston must read this blog!

In this morning’s comments, Robert Peston of the BBC states “But if the entire eurozone fractured completely, it is difficult to see how that distribution of losses could take place….

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