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                                                                   Exhibit 99(b)
                                                              Form 10-K for 1999
                                                              File No. 333-74847


                            AT&T Capital Corporation

                              Management Assertion


In accordance with the terms of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of
August 1, 1999 ("Servicing Agreement") among AT&T Capital Corporation (the
"Company") as Servicer, and in its individual capacity, Newcourt Funding
Company, L.L.C. as the Depositor and The Chase Manhattan Bank as the Indenture
Trustee for the Newcourt Equipment Trust Securities 1999-1, the Company is
responsible for servicing the leases and loans that are the subject of the
Servicing Agreement.

The Company is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective controls
over the servicing of leases and loans. The controls are designed to provide
reasonable assurance to the Company's management and board of directors that
leases and loans are serviced in accordance with the Company's policies and
procedures as well as its responsibilities under the Servicing Agreement.

There are inherent limitations in any control, including the possibility of
human error and the circumvention or overriding of the controls. Accordingly,
even effective controls can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to
the achievement of any objectives of controls. Further, because of changes in
conditions, the effectiveness of controls may vary over time.

The Company has determined the objectives of control with respect to its
servicing responsibilities. These stated control criteria are set forth in
Exhibit I. The Company has assessed its controls in relation to these criteria
for the period from August 1, 1999 through December 31, 1999. Based upon this
assessment, the Company believes that its controls over servicing loans and
leases are effective in providing reasonable assurance that the Company complied
with its policies and procedures and responsibilities under the Servicing
Agreement except for controls II (g) and IV (g) described in Exhibit I. The
Company has determined that control procedure II (g) related to the resolution
of unidentified cash and procedure IV (g) related to the application of
liquidation proceeds, were not operating effectively in 1999 due to systems
conversions, personnel turnover and integration issues, and may have resulted in
an overstatement of delinquent amounts and net liquidations during the period
from August 1, 1999 through December 31, 1999. Management is currently
addressing the processing and controls surrounding aged suspense account
balances and the application of liquidation proceeds.


                      AT&T Capital Corporation, as Servicer


                                           By:
                                                Glenn A Votek
                          Executive Vice President and
                                                Treasurer





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EXHIBIT I

AT&T Capital Corporation
Stated Lease/Loan Servicing Control Criteria


I.       Segregation of Serviced Portfolio

The Company's systems segregate leases and loans between those owned by the
Company and those managed by the Company for each relevant owner by each managed
pool.

Lease/Loan Payments

Lease and loan payments, including scheduled interest and principal,
prepayments, liquidation proceeds, late fees, etc. (collectively, remittances)
are applied to the respective customer account on a daily basis, based on an
established payment hierarchy.

III.     Accounting

The Company maintains financial records for the managed portfolios which are
periodically reconciled to the Company's systems.

IV.      Delinquencies

The Company maintains and implements policies and procedures which govern the
collection efforts, monitoring and reporting for delinquent accounts.

V.       Trustee Disbursements

Remittances received by the Company are transferred to the Trustee by the
Company's Treasury Group on a daily and monthly basis in accordance with the
time frame established within the Servicing Agreement.

VI.      Trustee Accounting and Reporting

The Company's Investor Reporting Group generates a monthly servicing report to
the Trustee and investors which provides the cash activity, delinquency, and
defaults relating to the managed portfolio.




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AT&T Capital Corporation
Stated Lease/Loan Servicing Control Procedures

I.       Segregation of Serviced Portfolio

The Company's systems segregate leases and loans between those owned by the
Company and those managed by the Company for each relevant owner by each managed
pool. Selected control procedures include:

a)   Transactions which have been securitized are identified with a special code
     (flagged) within the servicing entity's lease accounting system to
     segregate the cash activity and reporting relating to these transactions.

b)   Corporate systems reviews the monthly extracts from the servicing entity to
     ensure all contracts are accounted for.

c)   The Company generates daily cash reports which segregate cash among owned
     and managed portfolios based upon the systems codes that flag the
     contracts.

d)   The status indicator on a managed transaction is changed from active to its
     new status (default, prepaid, rebook, maturity, or breach of rep) upon the
     appropriate change to the lease record or notification of the status
     change.




a)       Lease/Loan Payments

Lease and loan payments, including scheduled interest and principal,
prepayments, liquidation proceeds, late fees, etc. (collectively, remittances)
are applied to the respective customer accounts on a daily basis, based on an
established payment hierarchy. Selected control procedures include:

b)   Billing statements are prepared on a basis consistent with the terms of the
     lease or loan and sent to customers based upon the records in the servicing
     system.

c)   Payments received at the lockbox electronically feed to the Company's lease
     and loan accounting system on a daily basis and are posted to customer
     records on the subsequent day.

d)   Systems security has been established to restrict modifications to the
     system controlled payment hierarchy.




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e)   A formal, or at a minimum, an informal daily cash reconciliation is
     performed by the servicing entities of the cash received at the lockboxes
     to ensure a complete accounting of all cash (owned and managed).

f)   There is proper segregation of duties between the personnel responsible for
     the posting of payments (systems for electronic transmissions and
     operations for manual adjustments) and reconciling the cash activity to the
     general ledger (accounting).

g)   Suspense cash systems modules/accounts are utilized to monitor cash not
     systematically applied to customer accounts (rejects, unidentified and
     unknowns).

h)   Operations personnel review the clearing of suspense cash activity to
     ensure timely application of such activity. Unapplied cash was not applied
     to customer accounts in accordance with the timeframes prescribed by
     management due to personnel turnover and systems conversions. Management is
     currently addressing the processing and reconciliation controls related to
     aged suspense account balances.

i)   A monthly cash comparison between the summary of daily cash transferred for
     the securitized contracts and the monthly servicing data files received by
     Corporate Systems Group is prepared by the Investor Reporting Group and
     reviewed by the Portfolio Accounting Group.

j)   Scheduled monthly lease and loan remittances received by the Company are
     separately identified and transferred to the securitization Trust on a
     daily and monthly basis.

k)   The Company generates daily cash reports which segregate the total cash
     received within a given period for the managed portfolios based upon the
     systems codes that flag the contracts.

III.     Accounting

The Company maintains financial records for the managed portfolios which are
periodically reconciled to the Company's systems. Selected control procedures
include:

a)   Segregation of duties have been established between the personnel
     responsible for record maintenance on the lease and loan accounting systems
     (the Operations Group) and personnel responsible for investor reporting
     (the Investor Reporting Group).

b)   A system reconciliation at the lease and loan level is performed between
     the contract principal balance and the required payoff amount calculated by
     the Corporate Systems Group to the corresponding figures provided by the
     respective servicing entity.







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IV.      Delinquencies

The Company maintains and implements policies and procedures which govern the
collection efforts, monitoring and reporting for delinquent accounts. Selected
control procedures include:

a)   Policies and procedures exist for the periodic reviews of delinquent
     transactions, generation of delinquency reports and collection efforts.

b)   Account delinquency status is system calculated and generated.

c)   The Arrears Management Group performs periodic reviews of the delinquency
     reporting and collection activity at the servicing entities.

d)   Delinquency reporting is reviewed by the servicing entities' Credit Head,
     Portfolio Quality Leader and the Operations Manager.

e)   The Investor Reporting Group reviews delinquency status and notifies the
     Portfolio Accounting Group for unusual trends.

f)   Write-offs generated from the servicing entity's system are reconciled
     monthly to the write-offs in the servicer report by the Investor Reporting
     Group. For one servicing system the Investor Report Group noted that
     liquidation proceeds were not being identified properly and remitted to the
     trust. Management is currently addressing the processing and controls
     related to the identification of liquidation proceeds.


V.       Trustee Disbursements

Remittances received by the Company are transferred to the Trustee on a daily
and monthly basis in accordance with the time frame established within the
Servicing Agreement. Selected control procedures include:

a)   The Company has written policies and procedures for the transfer of
     funds to the Trustee on a daily and monthly basis.

b)   Appropriate approvals in writing are required to initiate a wire transfer
     of funds to the Trustee account.

c)   A monthly reconciliation of cash activity is performed by the servicing
     entity from its general ledger to the Treasury Group's cash system. The
     servicing entities periodically reviews the cash transfers recorded by the
     Treasury Group in the cash management system.

d)   The company's bank reconciliations are performed periodically at the
     servicing entities.




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VI.      Trustee Accounting and Reporting

The Company's Investor Reporting Group generates a monthly servicing report to
the Trustee and investors which provides the cash activity, delinquency, and
defaults relating to the managed portfolio. Selected control procedures include:

a)   Monthly data extract files at a lease and loan level are transmitted
     electronically from the servicing entity to the Corporate Systems Group
     where edits are performed to ensure a complete accountability of the
     securitized portfolio as well as to check for errors in various data
     elements by performing recalculations of amounts provided by the servicing
     entities.

b)   Through the system edit process, reports and files are generated for the
     exception reporting which is provided to the respective servicing entity
     for investigation and subsequent corrections.

c)   A monthly cash reconciliation is performed between the Corporate Treasury
     Group cash records and the monthly servicing report produced by the
     Investor Reporting Group.

d)   Back up is maintained over the Corporate System applications used for
     securitization.

e)   The Investor Reporting Group's management performs an informal analytical
     review on the monthly servicing report.

f)   The servicing entities are provided with workpapers supporting the servicer
     report for their review and approval before submission by the Investor
     Reporting Group to the Trustee.