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Monitor's podcast series features real-time conversations with thought leaders who discuss topics of importance to the equipment finance industry.
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Podcast 147: Financial Transparency: Fleet Lending's New Competitive Currency (opens the original)
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Access to capital in fleet lending is no longer decided by asset values, revenue growth or market share alone. On this episode of the Monitor podcast, Kirk Browning, division president of vehicle fleet financing at 1st Source Bank, joins editor in chief Rita Garwood to explain why financial transparency has become a competitive advantage for fleet operators — and what it takes to get there. In this episode, Kirk discusses: Why financial reporting quality can outweigh size or growth rate in winni
Podcast 146: Speed, Trust, and AI: Jim Noel on Killing Friction Between Brokers and Funders (opens the original)
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Why does one broker always seem to get the exception, while another can't catch a break? According to Jim Noel, VP of Partner Originations at Brightcap Financial, it comes down to trust — and trust is built long before the exception request ever comes in. In this episode, Monitor Editor-in-Chief Rita Garwood talks with Noel about where friction actually creeps into the deal process, why speed of service so often decides who wins a deal, and how AI is changing everything from application intake t
Podcast 145: Beyond Rip and Replace: A Smarter Path to Equipment Finance Modernization (opens the original)
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“Rip and replace” isn’t the only path to modernization — and for many equipment finance organizations, it isn’t even the right one.In this episode, Monitor Editor-in-Chief Rita Garwood talks with Campbell Clout, Managing Director, GTM, North America and APMEA at Odessa, about what real modernization looks like when you skip the all-or-nothing approach.They discuss:• Why vendors are now expected to bring a playbook instead of a blank slate• The real cost, risk, and ROI benefits of an MVP-first ap
Podcast 144: Podcast 144: From "The Indefensible" to "The Indispensable": How to Actually Decide to Buy a Jet (opens the original)
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Most people buy jets backward. They fall in love with an aircraft first, then spend years trying to justify the purchase. In this episode of the Monitor podcast, host Rita Garwood sits down with Chris Lee, President of the Aircraft and Specialty Finance Deposit Divisions at 1st Source Bank, to talk about how to flip that order — starting with the mission, not the machine.Chris has been a pilot, an aircraft salesman, a financier, and an owner, so he's seen this decision from every seat at the tab
Podcast 143: The Science and the Art: What AI Should — and Shouldn't — Decide in Underwriting (opens the original)
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What does building autonomous vehicles at Cruise and dispatch systems at Uber have to do with underwriting a $50,000 equipment finance deal? More than you'd think. In this episode, Monitor Editor-in-Chief Rita Garwood talks with Utsav, Founder and CEO of Kaaj, about why the economics of underwriting small and mid-ticket deals have been broken for years, where the hours actually go between an application landing and a credit decision, and how AI can take over the repetitive "science" of a deal so
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