Some say “Capital is a commodity. Lowest price wins.” If 8% interest is good, 0% must be even better. (more…)
Solving for value in equipment leasing or any financial partnership
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
The debt bubble ahead
Monday, January 24th, 2011There are two conflicting forces that are influencing capital allocation to debt and credit products today and will, more than any other factor, determine returns to debt investors over the next 5 years. (more…)
Are you ready for December 31?
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010Every year we are asked to fund a lease inside a 3 or 4 day window at the end of the year. This is despite our best efforts to get all applications in before December 1 for those companies that want to close by year end. (more…)
49th Annual ELFA conference Equipment Leasing and Finance Association
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010Fountain Partners founder and Managing Partner Tom Carter will be attending the ELFA’s 49th annual conference in Boca Raton Florida which starts on October 24. Registrations for the event are up (more…)
BusinessWeek shines their light on Quidsi and Amazon
Thursday, October 14th, 2010Fountain Partners leases Kiva Systems robots which are used by high volume e-tailers for fulfillment. Quidsi is the corporate entity that operates Diapers.com, Soap.com and will soon be launching (more…)
See you at the ELFA Annual Conference in San Diego
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Fountain Partners managing director Tom Carter looks forward to meeting with friends old and new attending the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s (ELFA) annual conference Oct 19 and 20 in San Deigo. For those readers who will be attending (more…)
Takeaways from Hosting Conference in Las Vegas
Friday, September 18th, 2009The key takeaways from the 4th Annual Hosting Transformation Summit from a capital markets standpoint was that financing, whether bank, mezzanine or equity, is still (more…)
Fountain Partners Attending Hosting Transformation Summit
Monday, September 14th, 2009The proliferation of social media, the popularity of bandwidth-intensive applications such as YouTube as well as the evolutionary rise of cloud computing and software-as-a-service have shined the spotlight once again on data center and hosting services. Businesses are again looking to their data center as a critical area to manage costs yet (more…)
Fountain Partners Instant Proposal tool
Friday, September 4th, 2009We are in the process of launching the alpha version of something we call “Instant Proposal” and what we are referring to is a page on our site that will allow you to create a proposal for (more…)
Financial services companies don’t need blogs
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009We start with this title, “Financial services companies don’t need blogs”, with the intention of attracting you(?): the person who generally enjoys blogs – whether writing or reading.
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