On Thursday, Reynolds and Reynolds launched the Reynolds LAW Tennessee F&I Library, a comprehensive catalog of standardized, legally reviewed finance and insurance documents available to automobile retailers in Tennessee. The F&I resource for dealerships in the Volunteer State extended Reynolds’ ... [Read More]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau took action on Wednesday against the nation’s two largest debt buyers and collectors for allegedly using deceptive tactics to collect bad debts, which may have included auto finance recoveries. The bureau found that Encore Capital ... [Read More]

The latest enforcement action against a dealership in New Jersey provided another reason why Dealertrack Technologies associate general counsel Randy Henrick recently acknowledged that when he brings up the topic of compliance, “many dealers feel a headache coming on.” Before ... [Read More]

Prestige Financial rolled out a new direct-to-consumer loan solution on Tuesday aimed at leveraging the potential market for refinancing a vehicle installment contract. The company highlighted that Prestige’s new offering allows consumers to deal directly with the financing source to ... [Read More]

The American Financial Services Association announced that nine executives have been elected to join its board of directors for three-year terms, which will begin following the association’s board meeting on Oct. 6. The nine individuals include: — Jody Anderson is ... [Read More]

The more the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau highlights details about its consumer complaint database, the more industry associations make their own grievances about how the regulator constructs its reports, which are often critical of how providers are performing. The American ... [Read More]

A Pennsylvania independent dealership reached a settlement agreement with the state attorney general, who alleged the store leased vehicles that needed considerable amounts of repair work and used a lease agreement that did not comply with federal law. Attorney General ... [Read More]

To hear Pelican Auto Finance chief executive officer Troy Cavallaro explain the impact, the $100 million warehouse funding facility with Wells Fargo Securities the company announced on Wednesday will help the deep subprime auto finance provider in two places. The ... [Read More]

When the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its monthly consumer complaints snapshot report a little more than a week ago, one of the categories drumming up the most activity was credit reporting. Potential problems with how that metric developed is ... [Read More]

Along with an inkling about what its auto lending prospects might be, initial findings from the 2015 Growth Strategy Survey orchestrated by Bank Director showed the traditional banking industry may find itself unable to attract what orchestrators called a “decidedly ... [Read More]