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First Select AR turns one

Steve Clarke and Tony Cameron

Pictured above are Steve Clarke and Tony Cameron from Select Car Leasing Preston FOR an experienced, long-lived brokerage, it must be rather good to wind back the numbers from 25 to one. But that’s exactly what Cameron Clarke has done. The Preston broker became an AR of Select Car Leasing during Q1 of 2020 and was subsequently rebranded to Select Car Leasing…

Venture investment platform backs EV-only broker

anthemis

THE venture investment platform Anthemis, which promotes the transformative power of digital financial services, is backing EV-only broker ZeVie. Led by CEO Vincent Heilbron, along with experienced leasing executive Rob Whalley, ZeVie says it is committed to green living through the removal of EV ownership barriers. ZeVie is just one of two start ups to have completed the Anthemis acceleration programme, a…

Vauxhall Corsa number 1 for March PCH enquiries

Vauxhall Corsa top model in March says Leasing.com

WHILE premium brands Volkswagen and Audi head the lead-gen ladder at broker lease deal aggregator, Leasing.com, it’s the supermini Corsa from British brand Vauxhall that is enticing visitors to the site. During March, Leasing.com says the Corsa was the most requested personal lease car on its platform, beating off the Audi A3 and the Volkswagen Golf to the number 1 slot. Smaller,…

Broker News Newsletter 31 March 2021

The Frontier Vehicle Leasing team

Innovative ideas force change Hats off to Paul Fagan for choosing an intriguing way to raise finance for the EV-only brokerage WeVee. Good luck to him and the team on Seedrs. Taking a new approach is sometimes the best way to make change happen, which is exactly what John Hazlett and Frontier Vehicle Leasing have done by teaming up with Select Car…

Moneyshake says consumers want shorter leases, lower mileage

Moneyshake CEO Eben Lovatt

THE leasing broker marketing portal, Moneyshake, reports a change in consumer preferences for leasing deals. The lease aggregator says that the shift in behaviour – for reduced length of car lease and for fewer miles – is most likely a reaction to the pandemic. The key statistics reported by Moneyshake are: Enquiries on the shortest lease contract (24 months) have doubled in…

Polestar links up with Leaselink from Ebbon-Dacs for fleet e-procurement

Leaselink will be used to order the Polestar 2

SWEDISH EV car maker Polestar has signed a three-year deal to use the Leaselink e-procurement facility from Ebbon-Dacs in both the UK and the Netherlands. It follows a trial with an unnamed major international leasing company – most likely ALD Automotive or LeasePlan, the two leasecos most closely associated with the brand – and a similar pilot running in the Netherlands.  Ebbon-Dacs…

FLA and BVRLA request government extends Super Deduction to leasing

Super Deduction should be available to lease zero emission cars

THE FLA and the BVRLA have written jointly to the government to say the brief of its Super Deduction allowance doesn’t go far enough. Both trade associations say that the Super Deduction should extend to leasing and plant hire. Currently the Super Deduction can be used to purchase items such as new vans via contract purchase – see our analysis of the…