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Technology and the Equipment Finance Sector

The Union League Club
38 East 37 Street
New York, NY 10016

Blank Rome Partner Stephen T. Whelan will moderate the panel discussion, “Technology and the Equipment Finance Sector,” on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, from 11:20 a.m. to 12:20 p.m., at the 16th Annual Investors’ Conference on Equipment Finance in New York. The panel will address the following:

  • Blockchain implementation—what is needed to improve uses for equipment leasing?
  • Preparing for the Lease Accounting Standard—2019
  • What level of technology standard is needed?
  • E-docs—are they commonplace yet?
  • Marketplace lending: challenges, opportunities and best practices?
  • Are there industry-specific barriers that have prevented issuers from accessing these advances and its enthusiastic investors? How might those barriers be addressed/overcome?

Steve’s panelists will be:

  • Eric Starr, Partner, CAPX PARTNERS
  • Jeffrey Rogers, President & Chief Executive Officer, LIFTFORWARD, INC.
  • Charles Anderson, Chief Executive Officer, CURRENCY CAPITAL
  • Sohini Roy, Chief Financial Officer, CG COMMERCIAL FINANCE

Blank Rome LLP is pleased to be a sponsor of the Conference.

About the Annual Investors’ Conference on Equipment Finance

This conference, hosted by Information Management Network (“IMN”) and the Equipment Leasing & Finance Association (“ELFA”), focuses on educating investors and equipment finance companies about the latest industry trends and developments.