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£2.2m public sector fleet win for Inchcape FS

£2.2m public sector fleet win for Inchcape FS Inchcape Fleet Solutions (IFS) has won a £2.2m, three-year contract to provide fleet management services for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), part of the Department for Transport, beating five other fleet management companies to the prize. The deal will see IFS managing a fleet of cars and commercial vehicles, including trailers, for the MCA, and arranging fleet maintenance, fitting out replacement vehicles, arranging maintenance of boat trailers, disposing of surplus vehicles and accident management for the fleet of about 400 vehicles and 200 trailers, according to the contract award notice.

View from the US

Lender portfolios grow despite sluggish sales

Va-va-vroom

Va-va-vroom On an overcast Tuesday in September, members of the UKs asset and motor finance industry gathered at Milton Keynes Daytona racetrack for the Finance & Leasing Associations second annual go-karting event, sponsored by White Clarke Group.

On the move

Anisa Byrne has been promoted to the position of head of Product Management for Experians consumer business She originally joined the company in 2005 as product director for UK Credit Data Products

The Arranger

Whilst English scientist Tim Berners-Lee has been credited with the invention of the web in 1989 we are rapidly slipping behind the rest of the world, and especially the US, when it comes to making use of the amazing facilities available to us all to help us sell our products and services

Carrier Letter

Welcome to the October issue of Motor Finance – the fourth anniversary issue of the magazine Events of the past few weeks have shaken the financial world, and motor finance has inevitably been affected One of the first sectors to show signs of trouble was the sub-prime motor finance market; as funders have pulled back from this sector, dealers are now having real problems matching their car-buying customers with motor finance providers (see “You can get finance – as long as you can prove you don’t need it”)