This week, EFG Companies and Northwood University announced the student competitors and F&I mentors participating in the second annual F&I Innovator of the Year competition. Vying for $25,000 in prize money, this year’s 18 contestants hail from Arizona, California, Illinois, ... [Read More]

FactorTrust is looking for finance companies to add another consumer definition to their lexicon, encouraging lenders to examine the underbanked population with a new lens. FactorTrust is advocating that the 113 million U.S. consumers with FICO credit scores currently below 700 ... [Read More]

Tile, a Silicon Valley-based smart location company, and Axiom Product Administration, a finance and insurance (F&I) product company, recently signed an exclusive distribution partnership to help protect individuals from the stress and expense of losing their vehicle keys. The Revolution ... [Read More]

GSFSGroup, a nationwide provider and administrator of F&I products and hiring solutions for the automotive industry, recently launched what the company is calling the Dealer Executive Dashboard. It’s a flexible online data solution that can offer GSFSGroup dealers and agents ... [Read More]

While noting that outstanding balances are at an all-time high, auto defaults moved higher again in August, but not to a degree to trigger an alarm from S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian. The auto segment of the S&P/Experian Consumer ... [Read More]

The Federal Trade Commission recently issued a second Federal Register Notice (FRN) on a proposed qualitative survey of consumers to learn about their experiences in buying and financing vehicles at dealerships, and is seeking clearance from the Office of Management ... [Read More]

Auto Financial Group — an online provider of innovative financing products including CarMark Auto Finance for credit unions and banks — highlighted its summer growth figures this week, revealing increasing momentum in new customer signings with AFG's Balloon Lending program. ... [Read More]

DPG Investments — a company that currently has 26 private equity holdings while overseeing $1.5 billion in capital commitments since 2004 — closed on a line of credit on Friday so it can dive deeper into the non-prime auto finance ... [Read More]

Research recently released by TransUnion found that two in three lenders feel that data and analytics are evolving faster than their own internal capabilities. TransUnion surveyed 309 banks, credit unions and consumer finance companies to learn more about their use ... [Read More]

In a moved cheered by a wide array of organizations including the Consumer Bankers Association and the Independent Community Bankers of America, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee passed what Republican lawmakers are touting as an alternative to the Dodd-Frank ... [Read More]