Leading Through Change: Association Strategy, Industry Signals, and What’s Next for Equipment Finance
Chad Sluss, CEO of NEFA, joins Andrew Pace to discuss what equipment finance members are seeing on deal flow and credit conditions, how NEFA rebuilt its programming post-pandemic, and the cross-border connections the organization is building with counterpart associations globally.
How an Independent Lender Survives a Long Downcycle

How does an independent lender survive a downcycle that lasts longer than anyone expected? In this episode, Paul Fogle explains how Quality scaled from $20M to $240M, what the OTR trucking collapse revealed, and how “Quality 2.0” reshaped underwriting, pricing, diversification, and funding strategy for the future.