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The future of automotive mobility will be shaped in the cloud as much as the assembly line.

The 2026 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) confirmed what the entire ecosystem had sensed: the car is no longer just a mechanical object, but a software platform in motion, writes Pascal Benarousse, director of development strategy at Linedata.

Linedata, a global provider of credit and asset management technology, data, and services, announces the latest enhancements to its Linedata Ekip360 platform for fleet management, covering the entire vehicle lifecycle, from contract origination to vehicle return.

The 2026 Leaseurope Future Group Programme warmly welcomes 21 young professionals from the leasing, automotive rental and, for the first time, the consumer credit industry.

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires operators and traders who place or make available certain commodities on the EU market to comply with due diligence obligations. Leaseurope calls for a European Commission guidance clarifying that when offering purely asset finance services to support the activities of manufacturers, lessors are not considered “traders” for the purposes of the EUDR. The Commission latest package on the simplification of the EUDR does not include this confirmation. It includes however two clarifications on the scope of the EUDR that Leaseurope called for: products leased under a leasing contract where there is no transfer of ownership and retreaded tyres are not in the scope of the EUDR.