WestWon has seen extremely positive trends in leasing demand over the past few months and this experience is born out by figures released on 7th February 2014 by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) showing that asset finance new business grew by 34% in December 2013 to £2.2 billion, the strongest monthly rate of growth for almost 6 years.
The full year figures for 2013 show that new business for asset finance deals of up to £20 million grew by 4%, making it the fourth consecutive year of growth in the sector. There were positive figures across the market, with growth of 14% in IT equipment finance and 9% in commercial vehicle finance, compared with 2012. Modest growth was also reported in business car finance, plant and machinery finance, and business equipment finance with increases of 1%, 4% and 1% respectively.
Commenting, Geraldine Kilkelly, Head of Research and Chief Economist at the FLA said:
“The asset finance market reported its highest level of new business for three years in December, suggesting the long-awaited recovery in business investment may well have begun.
“The recovery in the UK economy so far has been driven by the services sector and supported by almost £15 billion of asset finance provided to businesses in that sector last year.”
In 2013 FLA members provided £84.7 billion of new finance to UK businesses and households. £22.4 billion of finance was provided to businesses and the public sector, representing around 29% of all fixed capital investment (excluding real property and own-account software) in the UK last year.
For more information see www.fla.org.uk
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