Equipment Leasing and Finance Association - Equipping Business for Success

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Channel

Channel is a leading provider of equipment finance and working capital funding solutions exclusively through partnerships with equipment finance companies. Our products and services utilize customized technology and business processes to help these companies provide their customers access to broader financing options and capital needed to grow their businesses.

Founded in 2009, Channel is one of the only full-service, on-balance sheet lenders. Corporate headquarters are based in Minnetonka, MN, with additional offices in Atlanta, GA, Des Moines, IA, and Brookings, SD, and Marshall, MN. Channel has originated over 24,000 deals generating receivables of more than $1.5-billion. The company has listed among the Inc. 500/5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for ten consecutive years.

Elevex Capital, LLC

"At Elevex Capital, we’re elevating commercial equipment financing by leveraging the latest technologies to create a faster, more efficient transaction process. Our platform integrates cutting-edge tools to streamline approvals, enhance risk assessments, and improve transparency. In addition, we’re building a specialized secondary market trading desk to buy and sell assets, positioning ourselves as a market maker to enhance liquidity and optimize our funding model, while managing portfolio risk and diversification. We’re also focused on serving underserved markets, where traditional financing sources are not providing adequate solutions. By combining asset-focused lending with strong asset management capabilities & structuring, Elevex Capital ensures that businesses—especially those overlooked by conventional lenders—get the financing they need to grow and thrive. Elevating the commercial equipment financing sector and executing customized financing solutions is the “why” behind the Elevex name and our value proposition to our clients.”

Fifth Third Bank, National Association

Fifth Third Bancorp is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the indirect parent company of Fifth Third Bank, National Association, a federally chartered institution. As of June 30, 2022, the Company had $207 billion in assets and operates 1,080 full-service Banking Centers, and 2,153 Fifth Third branded ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. In total, Fifth Third provides its customers with access to approximately 56,000 fee-free ATMs across the United States. Fifth Third operates four main businesses: Commercial Banking, Branch Banking, Consumer Lending, and Wealth & Asset Management. Fifth Third is among the largest money managers in the Midwest and, as of June 30, 2022, had $512 billion in assets under care, of which it managed $54 billion for individuals, corporations and not-for-profit organizations through its Trust and Registered Investment Advisory businesses. Investor information and press releases can be viewed at www.53.com. Fifth Third’s common stock is traded on the NASDAQ® Global Select Market under the symbol “FITB.” Fifth Third Equipment Finance is a division of the Bank's Commercial Banking business and had $6.7 billion in assets as of 12/31/21 and originated $2.9 billion in new loans and leases in 2021.

Gordon Brothers Equipment Finance

Gordon Brothers provides equipment financing solutions for clients with liquidity needs not easily satisfied through traditional banks and lenders. Our equipment finance and lease solutions leverage our broad and deep industry expertise and extensive equipment knowledge with typical investment sizes ranging from $5 million to $50 million. Our complementary leasing and lending services are designed to meet our clients' financing needs providing critical capital and liquidity to manage equipment risk throughout market cycles until they qualify for more traditional funding.

UNLOCKING ASSET VALUES

Gordon Brothers has a unique approach to risk.  As market leaders in valuation and disposition capabilities equipped with the industry's largest asset recovery and resale database, our ability to qualify and quantify risk and opportunity enables us to undertake transactions where traditional lenders and lessors have difficulty. While financial performance remains important, our industry, company, operational and equipment knowledge balances our risk outlook more equally between financial and asset risk. We see the entire picture beyond just financial condition.

SPEED & CERTAINTY

Our deal-oriented culture allows us to be nimble. We understand speed and certainty of execution are critically important to our clients.

By delivering rapid liquidity solutions and hands-on support when it is needed most, we partner with our clients and their shareholders and help them manage through operational challenges and market cycles to transform their businesses. In all that we do, Gordon Brothers is differentiated by our strategic, orderly, and big picture approach to each opportunity and our sensitivity to protecting trust, reputation and relationship in the interest of achieving future, sustainable growth for our clients.

Northteq

Aurora by Northteq is a web and mobile digital origination platform for vendors and brokers that is 100% built on the Salesforce.com platform. Aurora can be used as a full origination platform, or it can connect with your existing front and back office applications. It does not require that you have a Salesforce license. Aurora is a product of months of research, vendor interviews, and professional UX/UI design.

Northteq also offers a number of turn-key Salesforce.com apps tailored for the equipment finance industry.  

Wintrust Asset Finance, Inc.

When it comes to equipment finance and leasing, Wintrust Asset Finance has four specialized collaborative teams to meet your needs. With a national reach, and a focus on getting to know you and your business, our teams offer sophisticated loan and lease solutions to support initiatives like: Acquisition | Expansion | Refinance | Vendor funding solutions | Wholesale lending and lines of credit | Working capital

Our four collaborative teams consist of:

• Wintrust Capital which provides financing for Chicagoland, Indiana, and Wisconsin
• Wintrust Commercial Finance which provides nationwide equipment financing solutions
• Wintrust Equipment Finance which provides funding for independent equipment leasing companies
• Wintrust Specialty Finance which provides solutions for vendor and equipment leasing companies