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The experience we brought together
I founded MFG in 2022 after working in equipment finance from 2012, including years in credit, documentation and settlements before broking. Dan and I bring close to 40 years of combined commercial equipment-finance experience across credit, banking and the client side of transactions.
We have collectively handled more than a billion dollars in transactions over our careers. That is lifetime transaction exposure, not MFG settlement volume. The useful point is what that work taught us about how lenders assess a business and how an approval is actually executed.
A loan starts well before the application
A lender looking at a substantial equipment purchase will consider more than the invoice and a credit score. We look at financial statements, cash flow, the existing debt schedule, security, fleet utilisation, customer contracts and the next equipment purchases. Then we explain the transaction in a way the right lender can assess.
That work can start months ahead of a major fleet program. It gives the owner time to improve the information, understand the likely lender questions and make a deliberate choice, instead of reaching for the first quick approval after an order has been signed.
Low doc is an option, not the entire strategy
Low-doc finance is useful where it fits. But a business with strong financials should not be confined to a narrow set of fast, document-light products because its broker cannot analyse or present a full-credit application.
We examine major-bank and non-bank options, lender limits and the impact each placement has on future borrowing capacity. Sometimes the fastest option is right. Sometimes waiting to prepare a stronger full-doc case gives the business a better long-term result. We tell the client what the trade-off is.
Direct with the people doing the work
Clients speak with James and Dan, from the initial enquiry through lender engagement and settlement. There is no junior hand-off or volume target deciding which product they see. We want to know the business well enough that the next conversation starts further ahead.
The transaction matters. The position it leaves you in matters more. That is why MFG is built around ongoing equipment and banking relationships, not a fresh sales pitch for every machine.
Keep the relationship beyond one approval
Bankers move and lender appetites change. The owner should not have to explain the entire fleet from scratch each time. We keep the debt, available facilities, replacement plans and next purchases in view.
That can mean approaching a lender with a planned fleet program rather than a series of urgent invoices. The value of our credit experience is practical: read the financials, explain the proposal clearly and stay involved through the documents and settlement. See the MMS relationship in practice
Want to know more or talk through your options? Reach out to James and Dan anytime.