There didn’t appear to be any obvious connection between a representative from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finishing his presentation during the National Policy Conference hosted by the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association and the hotel fire alarm activating as ... [Read More]

Experian Automotive indicated that 30-day delinquency moved little during the second quarter when compared to the same time a year ago, but the 60-day delinquency reading did deteriorate more noticeably. According to Experian’s State of the Automotive Finance Market Report, ... [Read More]

Coinciding with the regulator offering a deeper explanation of its revamped Used Car Rule, Tom Pahl of the Federal Trade Commission made the opening presentation during the National Policy Conference, hosted this week by the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association. ... [Read More]

SpringboardAuto highlighted this week that the company has produced an upward trajectory of completed auto financing equal to a compound monthly growth rate of 20 percent. As a result, the company announced it has expanded operations to 22 states, now ... [Read More]

Less than three weeks after revealing a massive cybersecurity data breach, Equifax said that chairman and chief executive officer Richard Smith is retiring from those posts effective today. Current board member Mark Feidler has been appointed non-executive chairman by the ... [Read More]

RoadVantage recently introduced what the F&I program provider called a “powerful and innovative” program for lease customers called Preferred LeaseCare. The company explained this new concept combines the “as you drive” benefits of RoadVantage ancillary products with a lease-end benefit, ... [Read More]

Recent projects completed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Cato Institute again delved into unsatisfactory assessments of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Coinciding with House Republicans chastising the CFPB over its investigation of Wells Fargo, a wide-sweeping survey conducted ... [Read More]

This week, GWC Warranty, a provider of used-vehicle service contracts sold through dealers, appointed Brian Stach as the company’s new chief revenue officer. In his role, Stach will oversee all of GWC Warranty’s field sales operations, including a nationwide team ... [Read More]

Because of the Federal Reserve’s view of realized and expected labor market conditions and inflation, a unanimous vote of the Federal Open Market Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 1 percent to 1.25 ... [Read More]

Hudson Cook partner Allen Denson read through the auto-finance portion of the latest Supervisory Highlights shared by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and immediately thought of another credit segment. The CFPB’s report described problems bureau representatives found with vehicles being ... [Read More]