The Association of Finance & Insurance Professionals (AFIP) highlighted this week that Gulf States Financial Services Group’s entire dealer-support team completed the AFIP Certified F&I Professional program. AFIP executive director David Robertson conducted a review and proctored the certification exam ... [Read More]

With observers saying, “the consumer economy looks good,” the auto loan portion of the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices remained steady for December. Analysts from S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian determined the auto loan default rate was unchanged from ... [Read More]

SpringboardAuto.com, a new direct-to-consumer auto loan platform, added two executives to its board of directors who bring decades of experience from their time with Capital One and Ford Motor Credit. The company announced on Monday that its board now has ... [Read More]

The Federal Trade Commission recently rolled out a new resource catering to Hispanics in an effort to curtail what the regulator believes are potential pitfalls in the vehicle purchasing and financing process. Officials highlighted their newest Spanish-language fotonovela — a ... [Read More]

There could be new curves for dealers to navigate this year on the regulatory road, a path that can sometimes wind and change course with little notice. Some of those twists in 2016, says Randy Henrick of Dealertrack Technologies, may ... [Read More]

The battle for captive auto finance business in the future will be won — or lost — in the world of digital real estate, according to Jonny Combe, general manager of product and channel development at BMW Group Financial Services. ... [Read More]

Primeritus Financial Services strengthened its recovery management, skip-tracing and remarketing services on Thursday by acquiring Dallas-based Roquemore, a provider of vehicle skip-tracing services to the credit union and collateral protection industries. Primeritus director Chuck Tapp explained why the company made ... [Read More]

The chairman of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee is urging Attorney General Loretta Lynch and other federal officials to stop distributing $80 million in settlement proceeds from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s enforcement action against Ally Financial. A second ... [Read More]

Dealertrack Technologies said on Wednesday that the 2016 edition of the Dealertrack Compliance Guide is now available in print and online!  For 11 years, Dealertrack has been the industry’s single best source of compliance guidance written for dealers and is ... [Read More]

National Credit Center (NCC), a provider of comprehensive solutions and credit data to thousands of dealers to improve the efficiencies surrounding the credit approval process, announced this week it has acquired Las Vegas-based technology firm AimLogic. Developer of the predictive ... [Read More]