Thank you for checking in. Here are market rates for purchasing essential equipment or software.
We look forward to hearing from you.As always, please contact your OneWorld representative with questions or ideas. Just call us at (512)458-1300, and ask for Mike Wright at extension 234 or Mike Moran at extension 232.These Standard Middle Market Rates are intended to be guidelines for discussion purposes only and are subject to change higher or lower depending upon a review of the credit profile of each lessee. Also, contact your representative at OneWorld in order to discuss the multiple end-of-term options available, including, but not limited to $1out, Fair-Market-Value, Purchase-or-Renewal, or Equipment Finance Agreement.

Thank you for checking in. Here are market rates for purchasing essential equipment or software.
We look forward to hearing from you.As always, please contact your OneWorld representative with questions or ideas. Just call us at (512)458-1300, and ask for Mike Wright at extension 234 or Mike Moran at extension 232.These Standard Middle Market Rates are intended to be guidelines for discussion purposes only and are subject to change higher or lower depending upon a review of the credit profile of each lessee. Also, contact your representative at OneWorld in order to discuss the multiple end-of-term options available, including, but not limited to $1out, Fair-Market-Value, Purchase-or-Renewal, or Equipment Finance Agreement.

“After conducting an exhaustive search for a company that combined the experience we were looking for with the flexibility to adapt to OneWorld’s various business models, we chose GreatAmerica” said OneWorld President Lou Manitzas. “We are confident that Joe Andries, Vice President and General Manager of the Portfolio Services Group of GreatAmerica, and his team are the best fit for us and we look forward to working with them.”

OneWorld will benefit from the efficiencies of the GreatAmerica operational platform, according to Mr. Andries.  “We are excited about this opportunity to work with OneWorld,” Andries said. “We know that we can produce outstanding results for the company, which affords them more time to do what they do best.”

About OneWorld

OneWorld is an Austin, Texas-based independent lessor founded and controlled by its member-owners and provides various forms of commercial finance to companies throughout the United States. Although focused on equipment finance, OneWorld also works with service companies, manufacturers, healthcare providers and municipalities to help its customers plan for and acquire funding for capital acquisitions, refinance and operational expansion. OneWorld also helps customers manage their cash flow through the use of various types of debt instruments. www.oneworldbusinessfinance.com

About GreatAmerica

GreatAmerica Portfolio Services Group was established in 2010 to provide value-add portfolio management solutions and select business services to banks, manufacturers, captives and other independent financial institutions. It is a subsidiary of GreatAmerica Financial Services Corporation, a national commercial equipment finance company with over 350 employees that services over $1 Billion in equipment finance transactions in all fifty states and some of the U.S. Territories.  www.greatamerica.com/portfolio-services

Contact:

Amber Jones, Marketing Manager 512.458.1300

“ICBA is pleased to announce OneWorld Business Finance as a Preferred Service Provider,” said Dan Clancy, ICBA senior vice president of services.  “OneWorld will enable ICBA member banks to compete for leases and equipment finance transactions from its customers through OneWorld’s leasing exchange, an ICBA leasing resource, and allow them to fund loans secured by equipment leases.”

OneWorld Leasing is the only commercial equipment finance cooperative in the world.  The company offers over 50 lending programs and provides coop members with revenue-enhancing, cost-saving and market expanding opportunities.  This includes vendor finance, end user referral programs and originating equipment leases and loans to small and mid sized businesses in the $3,000 to $20 million range.  OneWorld Business Finance will provide community banks with the following:

Application-only transactions up to $150,000 and up to $20 million with full financials;

• Operating and capital leases, finance contracts and loans;
• Terms of 2-6 years and in some cases up to 10 years;
• A wide range of acceptable credits from investment grade to “C” credits and industries such as: municipal, agriculture, manufacturing and healthcare.

“OneWorld Business Finance is thrilled to be named as an ICBA Preferred Service Provider and looks forward to helping the nation’s Main Street community banks grow their business in the equipment leasing and financing space,” said Lou Manitzas, president of OneWorld Business Finance.  “OneWorld will provide ICBA member banks with competitive advantages in the marketplace.  We are able to accomplish this by insisting on the highest ethical standards and business practices, which have been used to negotiate preferred and unique funding channels and programs with a wide national network of commercial lenders, banks and independent businesses.”

For more information, visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDRPCykU51Y.
About ICBA

The Independent Community Bankers of America, the nation’s voice for community banks, represents nearly 5,000 community banks of all sizes and charter types throughout the United States and is dedicated exclusively to representing the interests of the community banking industry and the communities and customers we serve. For more information, visit www.icba.org.

About OneWorld Business Finance

OneWorld Business Finance is a commercial services cooperative founded by its member-owners in 2002.   Today the cooperative provides its members with significant competitive advantages in the equipment leasing and financing industries. For more information, visit

www.oneworldbusinessfinance.com

According to Lou Manitzas, President of OneWorld Business Finance, LLC, the operating arm of OneWorld Business Finance, “The joint venture between OneWorld and OneSource gives OneWorld additional staff to perform credit and documentation functions and makes the company more of a business entity rather than just a cooperative. It will also allow OneWorld to begin serving captives and independent lessors while continuing to work with the brokers who currently comprise the majority of its members. Although 2009 was a rough year for everyone in our industry, things seem to be turning around, and I believe that the change OneWorld is making give the company, as well as its members, a leg up on the competition in the future.”

In related news, OneWorld announced that it has begun accepting new applications for membership in OneWorld after a two-year hiatus. Members enjoy access to preferred funding sources, group purchasing, and community privileges. Businesses interested in applying for membership should go to www.oneworldbusinessfinance.com.

Founded in 2002, OneWorld Business Finance is the first and only commercial equipment finance cooperative in the United States. Its 25 members are located across the country and are captive finance companies, community bank leasing originators, industry specialists and generalists in all markets from small to large ticket. OneWorld has succeeded because of its high ethical standards, system of best practices for its members, and because it aggregates origination volume to achieve higher market penetration for those members.

OneWorld Business Finance, LLC is the operating arm of OneWorld Leasing, Inc. It is a joint venture between OneSource Financial Corp. and OneWorld Leasing, Inc.

OneSource Financial Corp. is an Austin-Texas-based commercial finance company that was established in 1995. Although OneSource Financial primarily provides leases and loans for business equipment to middle market companies, it also helps place other types of business financing, including accounts receivable and purchase order finance, credit card processing and capital for expansion.

“The Board of Directors worked closely with Ira during the last two and a half years and we anticipate a seamless transition in continuing to provide value to our members,” said Stan Ragley, Chairman of OneWorld and President of Leasing Resources Inc.

OneWorld Business Finance is a business cooperative created to help independent equipment leasing and finance companies further their common interests and to obtain greater marketing strength and funding power in the industry. OneWorld operates on a cooperative basis and is owned and controlled by its members who use its services. OneWorld’s motto is “Strength In Numbers” and its goal is to leverage the volume of the co-op to provide members with revenue opportunities, business services, national vendor programs, best practice activities and access to funding sources that may be unobtainable individually.

OneWorld Business Finance actively pursues new members that have demonstrated good, ethical leasing standards over many years. Membership qualifications also require a commitment to the broker/lessor equipment leasing and finance industry, strong consistent leadership and a willingness to share experiences with like-minded industry participants. During 2007, OWBF members leased and financed in excess of $350 Million of equipment for lessees and vendors.

CONTACT:

Stan Ragley: 704.895.8888

sragley@oneworldleasing.com

OneWorld Business Finance

Website: www.oneworldbf.com

About OneWorld Business Finance OneWorld Business Finance is a business cooperative created to help independent equipment leasing and finance companies further their common interests and to obtain greater marketing strength and funding power in the industry. OneWorld operates on a cooperative basis and is owned and controlled by its members who use its services. OneWorld’s motto is “Strength in numbers,” and its goal is to leverage the volume of the co-op to provide members with revenue opportunities, business services, national vendor programs, best practice activities and access to funding sources that may be unobtainable individually.

OneWorld Business Finance actively pursues new members that have demonstrated ethical leasing standards over many years. Membership qualifications require a commitment to the broker/lessor equipment leasing and finance industry, strong consistent leadership and a willingness to share experiences with like-minded industry participants.

During 2008, OneWorld members originated nearly $400 million of equipment finance transactions for its customers and vendor-partners.

CONTACT:

Stan Ragley: 704.895.8888

sragley@oneworldleasing.com

About OneWorld Business Finance OneWorld Business Finance is a Delaware corporation with its operations office in Phoenix , AZ. OneWorld is a business cooperative created to help independent equipment leasing and finance companies further their common interests and to obtain greater marketing strength and funding power in the industry. OneWorld operates on a cooperative basis and is owned and controlled by its members who use its services. OneWorld’s motto is “Strength in numbers,” and its goal is to leverage the volume of the co-op to provide members with revenue opportunities, business services, national vendor programs, best practice activities and access to funding sources that may be unobtainable individually.

OneWorld Business Finance actively pursues new members that have demonstrated ethical leasing standards over many years. Membership qualifications require a commitment to the broker/lessor equipment leasing and finance industry, strong consistent leadership and a willingness to share experiences with like-minded industry participants.

During 2008, OneWorld members originated equipment finance transactions of nearly $400 million for its customers and vendor-partners.

CONTACT:

Stan Ragley: 704.895.8888
sragley@oneworldleasing.com
OneWorld Business Finance

Website: www.oneworldleasing.com