Although the industry's top trade group, the Equipment Leasing Association, doesn't endorse Shearer's report, it distributed her bombshell to all 280 executives attending its annual meeting for investors in New York last month.

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The other three trade bodies that agreed to the new charter are the BCCA, a trade association for lenders offering short-term loans, the Consumer Credit Trade Association and the Finance and Leasing Association.

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