While phone calls remain an important tool for collectors and skip-tracers at auto finance companies, the Federal Trade Commission told the U.S. Senators last week that the agency “is using every tool at its disposal to fight” illegal robocalls. Appearing ... [Read More]

Wells Fargo said Friday it has entered consent orders with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, under which the company will have to pay civil penalties totaling $1 billion. The consent orders ... [Read More]

Along with an effort to raise awareness and funds for Special Olympics NY, GrooveCar is running its annual April Auto Sales Event starting on Friday through its network of participating credit unions and dealerships. Credit unions in the New York ... [Read More]

Darwin Automotive’s menu for dealership F&I departments became even more robust this week. Darwin announced that it has added Zurich North America’s F&I products to the Darwin core F&I menu, as well as Darwin digital retailing and service menu. “We ... [Read More]

Four of the industry associations with significant presence on Capitol Hill celebrated on Wednesday after the U.S. Senate passed a Congressional Review Act Resolution (S.J. Res. 57) to repeal the 2013 Auto Finance Bulletin issued by the Consumer Financial Protection ... [Read More]

One of the faces well known with Ally Financial’s auto finance business is leaving the company as part of key leadership changes announced on Thursday in association with changes to its auto finance, insurance and risk management organizations. According to ... [Read More]

Another example of industry cooperation in the repossession world came to light on Wednesday. Consolidated Asset Recovery Systems (CARS) announced that the forwarding company has integrated its IBEAM repossession and remarketing compliance portal with the Clearplan dashboard used by repossession ... [Read More]

The auto industry relationship involving Jim Calvert and David Gryglewicz dates back several years, and now the pair has collaborated to form a new company designed to improve repossessions, recoveries and remarketing. This new operation — ENDTRUST — looks to ... [Read More]

Dealers now have another option for helping their potential customers learn about their financial capacity as their searching store inventory. Automotive website and digital marketing company Dealer eProcess recently announced that it has signed with CreditMiner for soft pull technology, delivering ... [Read More]

Data driven insights are increasingly bringing new perspectives on the usefulness of long-established processes and practices. Over the last few years, MBSi Corp. has begun to dive deeply into the tens of millions of repossession-related data points contained within its ... [Read More]