The Next Up, a retail sales process aimed at improving dealership sales, announced the extension of The Next Up Web-based system to include applications for a dealership’s finance and service departments. Designed to create added accountability in the finance and ... [Read More]

Finance company compliance departments as well as legal counsel to trade and dealer associations are still sorting through the ramifications of the indirect auto lending and compliance bulletin the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent out more than a year ago. ... [Read More]

Exeter Finance Corp. announced this week that EFCAR — a special purpose Delaware limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of the Exeter — priced $500 million in aggregate principal amount Series 2014-2 automobile receivable backed notes. The company indicated ... [Read More]

As part of its ongoing investigation into allegations of racial and gender discrimination and employee retaliation at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the U.S. House Financial Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee this week heard testimony from witnesses who were subpoenaed ... [Read More]

Chalk it up to prudent underwriting or an economy gaining some collective stream, but the auto portion of the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices is at its lowest point ever. Data through April released by S&P Dow Jones Indices and ... [Read More]

White Clarke Group, a supplier in automotive and asset finance technology, formed a strategic alliance this week with NADA Used Car Guide to provide integrated, automated vehicle valuations within its online credit application system, CALMS2.  Jonathan Dodds, chief executive officer ... [Read More]

Earlier this week, dealership software, services, and forms provider Reynolds and Reynolds and payment solutions provider Global Payments announced an agreement to offer point-of-sale, electronic payment solutions for dealerships. As part of the agreement between the two companies, Reynolds will ... [Read More]

For finance company executives still curious as to why Toyota is shifting major operations out of California to Texas, NAF Association just added a new session to next week’s annual gathering aimed at satisfying that interest Conference organizers said Michael ... [Read More]

A finance manager at an Ohio franchised dealership set the examination bar quite high as a part of the inaugural boot camp recently orchestrated by the Association of Finance & Insurance Professionals. Ray Miller, finance manager at Joyce Buick GMC ... [Read More]

Credit Acceptance Corp. commenced a tender offer to purchase up to 915,750 shares of its outstanding common stock. The company pegged the price per share at $125.58 “We anticipate that we will obtain all of the funds necessary to purchase ... [Read More]