Healthcare service providers in most emerging markets need more equipment than they can finance. Pay-per-scan, renting and leasing are helping to increase access to equipment and close the (still considerable) gap relative to industrialized markets.

Many emerging markets have ample wind, sunlight and open spaces to support deployment of renewable energy, at utility-scale near cities and micro-grids for industrial parks and smaller towns. Renewable energy helps the world mitigating and combatting climate change, and additional energy generation unlocks commerce, service and quality of life benefits. While investors in the industrialized world are interested in participating in the funding of these projects, there are no suitable instruments for them to invest in.

Some of the most fertile and readily arable land in the world can be found in emerging and frontier markets, yet agricultural yields often lag because modern planting and harvesting equipment are not available to farming operations. Leasing, yield sharing rental programs and mechanization services are ways to provide this access, allowing the operators to pay for the use of the equipment with the cash flows they help generate.

Emerging markets are catching up rapidly in giving people access to the internet, in part enabled by the rapidly growing number of subsea and terrestrial cables and co-location datacenters. However, the Capex required for businesses to use the improved connectivity is often prohibitive. Rental programs for servers and storage turns Capex into Opex, and eases the path to digitization of their economies.