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March 1
Proposed Regulations Will Expand
Calif. Consumer Financial Protection Law
By Marshall Goldberg, Esq.
The Top Four Leasing/Finance Funder Websites
In North America
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
Leasing and Finance Industry Help Wanted
Sales. Accounting/Credit, Funding, IT
Be Vigilant
Sales Makes it Happen by Scott Wheeler, CLFP
Introducing Leasing News Advisor
Hugh Swandel
Mike Bruman Promoted to CEO
of Navitas Credit Corp.
ELFA Report Forecasts Equipment Markets
for 2023
Anatolian Shepherd Mix
Dallas, Texas Adopt-a--Dog
FDIC-Insured Institutions Reported Net Income of
$68.4 Billion in Fourth Quarter 2022
News Briefs ---
Attorneys Fight Over Last Chance to
Examine Norfolk Southern Derailment Site
Tesla pauses new Full Self-Driving
beta installations until recall is addressed
Mexican president says Tesla
to build plant in Mexico
Rivian Lost $6.8 Billion Last Year
as Production Fell Short
You May Have Missed
What Layoffs? Many Employers Are
Eager to Hang On to Workers
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
Wordle
March 3
Funders Forum Brokers Expo
March 8 - March 10 Hollywood, Florida
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
Leasing and Finance Industry Help Wanted
Excellent Compensation/Marketing Support
Introducing Leasing News Advisory Board Chair
Shari L. Lipski, CLFP
Looking Back to Learn What to Expect Tomorrow
By Scott Wheeler, CLFP
California Mulls Allowing Marijuana Cafes
to Boost the Industry
Financing Cannabis Funding Sources
Many Work with Third Party Originators
Three Colors, Bergman Island, Dazed and Confused
Confused. Hollywood Shuffle, Romeo and Juliet.
Art House Reviews by Fernand Croce
Puggie
Hollywood, Florida Adopt-a-Dog
What are the Top Marketing Trends of 2023?
FinTech #102 by Alex Vasilakos
News Briefs ---
Mortgage rates jump back over 7%
as inflation fears drive yields higher
Nordstrom to Close, Liquidate Its Canadian Stores
13 Locations employing about 2,500
Chip makers will have to provide child-care plans
to seek federal money
Adidas has $500 million worth of Kanye West
sneakers and no good options
You May Have Missed
New report shows thousands of workers
have left downtown San Francisco
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
Wordle
March 6
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
Leasing and Finance Industry Help Wanted
Your Future Starts Now. We're Hiring!
Introducing Sloan Schickler
Leasing News Advisor
CLFP Foundation Adds 12 New CLFPs w/Photos
More on the Academy Follows
CLFP Exam
Average Completion Times
Academy for Certified Lease & Finance Professionals
March, 2023 to June, 2023 Updated
Top Ten Leasing News Read by Readers
February 27 to March 23
Black Labrador Retriever and Bull Terrier Mix
Aurora, Nebraska Adopt-a-Dog
AACFB Exhibit Hall Filling Up
for Annual Conference
May 2-4, 2023 - List of Exhibitors to Date
News Briefs ---
Could California become the first state to
require Tesla charging stations to open to all EVs?
Amazon to shutter all Amazon Go stores
in San Francisco. closing New York and Seattle, too
Opinion: To revitalize downtowns, cities need
to stop making this big mistake
What Is a CEO’s Pay Actually Worth?
Companies must tell how much stock awards
Robbie Gould to leave 49ers
in free agency, according to report
You May Have Missed
Who Should Work at Home.
What’s your workplace personality?
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
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Traffic Live----
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March 8
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
Leasing and Finance Industry Help Wanted
Excellent Compensation/Marketing Support
Up-to-Date Data
Sales Makes it Happen by Scott Wheeler, CLFP
Arizona Records $1.4 Billion
in Cannabis Sales in 2022
Canadian Asset Finance Business Confidence Survey
Results Show Improvement Compared
to 2022’s Second Half
Saint Bernard
Cerritos, California Adopt-a-Dog
Selecting an Equipment Finance Partner
By Amy Thomas, Key Equipment Finance
News Briefs ---
Verde and Chesswood Announce Forrward Flow
Agreement for Tandem Finance and Pawnee
Fed Chair Opens Door to Faster Rate Moves
and a Higher Peak
Microsoft job cuts in Seattle area reach 2,184 people,
as part of 10,000 layoffs globally
Amazon buys big Bay Area industrial site
where factory closed
Hot Dogs Can Explain How Our View of Inflation
and Employment Changes With the Seasons
You May Have Missed
Who Should Work at Home.
What’s your workplace personality?
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
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Traffic Live----
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March 10
(Founded by the late, great, Larry LaChance)
Bankers Capital Updated in Funders "A", Funders
Looking for Broker Business, Looking for “New” Brokers
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
Leasing and Finance Industry Help Wanted
Sales, Accounting, Credit, Funding, Info Tech
Know When It is Time to Move On
The Ultimate Hire by Ken Lubin, ZRG Partners
U.S. Labor Market Falls Below
Inflation by 1 percent
The Best and Worst Countries for Women Worldwide
Countries ranked by quality of Women’s lives 2021
DLL Recognized as U.S. Best-in-Class Employer
by Gallagher
Special Oscar Column: Nominees
by Leasing News Fernando Croce
Rottweiler/Australian Cattle Dog/Blue Heeler Mix
Poplar Grove, Illinois Adopt-a-Dog
Attendees List to Date
34th Annual National Funding Conference
March 14- March 16 Chicago, Il.
News Briefs ---
GM offers buyouts to 'majority'
of U.S. salaried workers
Silicon Valley Bank shares tumble
after launching stock sale
Silicon Valley Bank CEO to investors:
'Stay calm' and don’t 'panic'
Elon Musk Is Planning a Texas Utopia—His Own Town
The entrepreneur is laying plans for a new community outside Austin
How One Guy’s Car Blog Became a $1 Billion Marketplace
Bring a Trailer is where obsessives buy, sell and geek out over classic cars
You May Have Missed
Several Banks Lose Billions in Value After
Tech Lender SVB Stumbles
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
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Traffic Live----
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March 13
U.S. gov't guarantees all Silicon Valley Bank deposits
Money available Monday
Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California added to
No Longer taking Broker/Discounting Business
Plus Finance and Leasing Companies Out of Business
FDIC Creates a Deposit Insurance to Protect Insured
Depositors of SVB, Santa Clara, CA
Company Offering to Purchase Funds
For SVB “ERC credits” from $75,000 and up
Silicon Valley Bank News Briefs
Bank Closure
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
And Related Industries
Leasing and Finance Industry Help Wanted
We Are Growing Our Senior Sales Team Now!
Top Ten Leasing News Read by Readers
March 6 to March 10
Foreclosure Filings up 18% YoY
By Keyle G. Hors, DS News
Parson (Jack) Russell Terrier Mix
Santa Clara, California Adopt-a-Dog
News Briefs ---
31% of new cars sold for above sticker price last month.
These 10 models have the biggest premiums
Oil giant Saudi Aramco records
historic $161 billion profit in 2022
3 Lessons From Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure
extremely online clientele may have contributed to its downfall
52 feet and counting: Lake Tahoe, California
grapples with ‘ginormous’ snowpack
Girl Scout cookies crumble under
supply chain woes, labor shortage
Silicon Valley Bank’s Meltdown Visualized
The second-largest bank failure in U.S. history in graphics
Wall Street Braces for the Next Silicon Valley Bank
Shares of regional banks tumble amid concern
You May Have Missed
The Second-Biggest Bank Failure. From 2008 to
2015, more than 500 federally insured bank
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
Wordle
March 15
Funders Forum + Brokers Expo Report
By Bruce Kropschot, The Alta Group
Fed Forecasts Answer on Why SVB Failed
to Be Released May 1, 2023
More on Employee Retention Credit
from the Internal Revenue Service
By David Goldin, Founder & CEO
Leasing and Finance Industry Help Wanted
Your Future Starts Now. We're Hiring!
Main Street Monday – $58 Billion Budget for SBA
Programs in Fiscal Year 2024
By Delaney Sexton, Coleman Report
List of MCA and Other Sales-based Financing Providers
in the State of Virginia
FDIC Establishes Signature Bridge Bank, N.A.,
as Successor to Signature Bank, New York, NY
Dachshund
Des Moines, Iowa Adopt-a-Dog
News Briefs ---
Silicon Valley Bank made itself perfect for wineries
Then their accounts froze.
SVB Creditors Form Group in Advance of Possible Bankruptcy
PJT Partners hired in anticipation of possible bankruptcy, asset sales
Facebook Parent Meta Plans 10,000 Job Cuts
Zuckerberg talks about the advantages of a leaner organization
Mass Bay Area power outages grow
to nearly 300,000 PG&E customers
The American Diet Has a Sandwich Problem
Favorite lunch is a ‘heart bomb’ of salt, preservatives and sugar
You May Have Missed
Inside the ‘Top Chef’ Industrial Complex
Entering its 20th season, the franchise changed way Americans eat
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
Wordle
March 20
Back Online
Now Catching Up
By Kit Menkin, Editor/Publisher
The Supreme Court to Decide the Constitutionality
of the California Consumer Financial Protection Law
Licensed Funders, Brokers, and Vendors Affected
By Marshall Goldberg, Esq.
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
Leasing and Finance Industry Help Wanted
Highly Trained Operation Staff/Work from Home
Excellent Compensation/Marketing Support
Top Ten Leasing News Read by Readers
March 13 to March 15
Chesswood Reports Strong 2022
Diversified Portfolio plus Free Cash Flow
Reid Raykovich, CLFP, Executive Director
at Certified Leasing and Finance Foundation Engagement
A Dreamer or a Doer: 10 Best Quotes
From Apple CEO Tim Cook
Labrador Retriever
Fort Collins, Colorado Adopt-a-Dog
"Make Your Own Luck" in Irvine California
AACFB Annual Conference May 2-4, 2023
News Briefs ---
Subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp, Inc., to Assume
Deposits of Signature Bridge Bank, N.A., from the FDIC
Silicon Valley Bank’s former parent company
has filed for bankruptcy protection
Before Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank,
the Fed Spotted Big Problems
Banking giant UBS acquiring
Credit Suisse for $3.2 billion
New Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max rumour
points to noticeable display modernisation
You May Have Missed
How a poker game launched Silicon Valley Bank’s four-decade ride
on the tech wave — and a bad gamble 42 years later ended it all
‘Valley wouldn’t be Silicon Valley without Silicon Valley Bank’
This Day in History
"Gimme that Wine"
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
Wordle
March 22
ELFA 34th Annual National Funding Conference Report
By Shari L. Lipski, CLFP
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
Leasing and Finance Industry Help Wanted
Spring into a New Career or Join Sr. Sales Team
Sales Makes it Happen by Scott Wheeler, CLFP
Filling the Funnel
FTC Extends Comment Period on
Proposed Ban of Noncompete Agreements
7-Eleven Launches Plans for EV Charging
Network in US and Canada
By Auto Remarketing Staff
This Bank Lends to Owners of Real Estate
Who Lease to Cannabis Companies
DFPI Announces Comprehensive Review
of Oversight and Regulation of Silicon Valley Bank
Labrador Retriever
Oceanside, San Diego, California Adopt-a-Dog
News Briefs ---
SBA Lending Surpasses $10.5 Billion
in Fiscal Year 2023
Could regulation technology - or 'reg-tech'
avert banking failures? This entrepreneur thinks so
Technology driving the future of payments
Predictions and the History
You May Have Missed
A Big Question for the Fed:
What Went Wrong With Bank Oversight?
This Day in History
"Gimme that Wine"
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
Wordle
March 24
Exclusive Video Silicon Valley Bank
Executive Loan Committee Meeting
SFNet Survey is Off-Base on Licensing
and Commercial Disclosure Laws
By Christopher Menkin, Publisher
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
Leasing and Finance Industry Help Wanted
We Are Growing Our Senior Sales Team Now!
ELFA Monthly Report Continues Downward Trend
February Down 10%, $7.9B from January $8.8
Formal Statement from Federal Reserve Board
The Reasons Behind the Interest Rate Increase
Americans Turn to Social Media
For News, Despite Lower Trust
Interesting News from DFPI - California Financial
Protection & Information - on Silicon Valley Bank
(News Media Put the Blame on FDIC Surveillance)
Raquel Welch (1940-2023) Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Bedazzled (1967), Hannie Calder (1971),
The Three Musketeers (1973), Tortilla Soup (2001)
Reviews by Leasing News' Fernando Croce
Shepherd Mix
Dallas, Texas Adopt-a-Dog
AACFB Exhibit Hall Filling Up for Annual Conference
Current List Update of Exhibitors
News Briefs ---
One-Third of Americans Would Consider
EV Purchase - Reuters/Ipsos poll
EVs: An IIHS Researcher Speaks Out
About a Weighty Issue
Georgia economy still ignoring
Fed’s stop sign
Battered California faces billions in
storm damage to crops, homes and roads
How Manhattan Hotels Became Refuges
for Thousands of Migrants
You May Have Missed
'Not going to jump ship’: Here’s how First Republic
Bank customers are reacting to its struggles
This Day in History
"Gimme that Wine"
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
Wordle
March 27
Hundreds Flock to San Diego for
Annual NEFA Finance Summit
By Don Cosenza, CLFP, CMO
Seeking Opinions for Follow-up of SFNet Claim
40% of Lenders Won’t Do Business in California
By Christopher Menkin, Editor/Publisher
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
Leasing and Finance Industry Help Wanted
Spring into a New Career. We're Hiring
Top Ten Leasing News Read by Readers
March 20-March 24
Home Sales Show Strong Increase
Over January
CLFP Foundation Releases Updated Handbook
Second Printing, Ninth Edition
Academy for Certified Lease & Finance Professionals
March 2023 to October 2023 Updated
Shepherd and Husky Mix
Tualatin, Oregon Adopt-a-Dog
FT Partners Webinar State of Fintech 2023
Thursday, March 30 9:00 am PDT/12:00 pm EDT
News Briefs ---
Samsung’s Texas chip plant price tag
reportedly surges to $25B
FTC Seeks Public Comment on
Potential Franchise Rule
You May Have Missed
US jobless claims unexpectedly
decline for a 2nd week
This Day in History
"Gimme that Wine"
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
Wordle
March 29
Ralph Petta Announces Retirement
A Surprise to the Leasing and Finance Industry
By Kit Menkin
No Response Regarding Claim of SFNet Report:
Many Will Not Do Business in California
due to Licensing and Disclosure Laws
Commercial Vehicles, included Automobiles
Financed for Business Use Fall Under Disclosure Laws
Leasing and Finance Industry Help Wanted
Excellent Compensation/Marking support/Remote
Sales Makes it Happen by Scott Wheeler, CLFP
Research and Development
LG Will Spend $5.5 Billion
on a Battery Factory in Arizona
The Black Equipment Finance Network (BEFN)
Makes History at Its Inaugural Mixer
First Citizens Bank Enters into Whole Bank
Purchase of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, N.A.
Sporting Dog (guess)
Raleigh, South Carolina Adopt-a-Dog
News Briefs ---
CFPB Issues Determination that State Disclosure Laws
on Business Lending are Consistent
with the Truth in Lending Act
Georgia on Verge of Passing a
Commercial Financing Disclosure Law
Why are so many San Francisco Bay Area trees
turning destructive and deadly in recent storms?
California flood victims, local officials plead
with Gov. Newsom for help with FEMA aid
You May Have Missed
This is why Silicon Valley Bank imploded
says top Fed official
This Day in History
"Gimme that Wine"
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
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March 31
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Determines New State Disclosure Laws
Are Not Preempted by Truth in Lending Act
By Marshall Goldberg, Esq.
Advice to those in Commercial Finance and Leasing
By Bob Rodi
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
Leasing and Finance Industry Help Wanted
Spring into a NEW Career. WE'RE HIRING!
Comments on CEO/President Ralph Petta
Announcing his retirement after 36 Years at ELFA
Inflation Several Countries Chart
Inflation year-over-year February 2023
Five Takeaways from ELFA Webinar on
Fraud Detection, Mitigation and Prevention
Latest Streaming Releases, quality dramas
from various nations: To Leslie, Living,
The Quiet Girl, Causeway, EO
Pointer
Austin, Texas Adopt-a-Dog
NVLA 2023 Annual Conference
October 11-13, 2023 Austin, Texas
Early Bird Registration Available
News Briefs ---
Leasing News Location Rain-battered Saratoga, CA
declares state of emergency during latest week of storms
SF Bay Area tech layoffs widen with cuts
by chipmaker, streaming titan
Do We Know How Many People
Are Working From Home?
Biden Calls on Regulators to Increase
Oversight of Certain Banks
You May Have Missed ---
Jamie Dimon Reprises 2008 Role
as Rescuer of a Failing Bank
"Gimme that Wine"
This Day in History
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GasBuddy
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