700Credit, which provides credit, compliance and prescreen products and services exclusively to the automotive industry, recently formed an integration partnership with DealerClick, a leader in automotive software solutions. Officials said this agreement will allow DealerClick dealers seamless and secure access ... [Read More]

CU Direct Connect (CUDC) announced its year-end results this week as auto loan application volume jumped 25.3 percent. That rise helped CUDC to close 2014 with more than $1 billion in funded loans netting a year-over-year increase of 30 percent.  ... [Read More]

Westlake Flooring, a division of Westlake Financial Services, recently financed the acquisition of Phoenix Truxx’s current dealership location, helping the heavy-duty truck enterprise consolidate its operation in New Jersey.  Officials highlighted the property had been in bankruptcy foreclosure and Westlake ... [Read More]

Emphasizing three main capabilities, vAuto introduced what it dubbed a Subprime Booking module as part of its Provision system to help dealers address the challenges of properly acquiring subprime inventory and matching credit-challenged customers to those vehicles. As the latest ... [Read More]

The pool of subprime borrowers for finance companies to service potentially could be getting deeper judging by the reason Swapalease.com cited as the trigger for auto lease credit approvals for 2014 dropping by nearly 9 percent year-over-year. Swapalease.com reported last ... [Read More]

The ability for federal regulators such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to use disparate impact theory to hand out enforcement actions against finance companies that provide auto financing could be reduced or even eliminated, depending on how the Supreme ... [Read More]

Dealertrack Technologies associate general counsel for regulatory and compliance Randy Henrick will be a featured workshop speaker at this week’s National Automotive Dealers Association Convention and Expo in San Francisco. Henrick will conduct two workshop sessions to educate dealers on ... [Read More]

Auto finance is getting closer to becoming a $1 trillion business. According to the latest Equifax National Consumer Credit Trends Report released Tuesday at the Vehicle Finance Conference and Exposition hosted by the American Financial Services Association, the total balance ... [Read More]

Since half of the specialty finance companies that participated in a recent survey conducted by McGladrey experienced some form of fraud during the past 12 months, senior manager Ronnie Lee devised four strategies institutions can implement to overcome possible unscrupulous ... [Read More]

Despite consumer advocates insisting that rising auto financing default rates are mirroring the mortgage mess that triggered the most recent recession, Moody’s Investors Service explained that elevating delinquencies for loans originated by independent finance companies reflect a loosening of credit ... [Read More]