LONG BEACH, Calif. — Alliance Inspection Management announced on Wednesday that it will partner with Ford Motor Credit Co. and assume responsibility for floor-plan audits at dealerships and conduct lease-end inspections of vehicles financed through the captive. "We are very pleased ... [Read More]

DAYTON, Ohio — Reynolds and Reynolds recently congratulated Tom Hudson, of Hudson Cook, on receiving the prestigious Senator William Proxmire Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers this spring. The college presents the award periodically to those who ... [Read More]

FORT WORTH — Highlights of the annual Non-Prime Automotive Financing Survey were touched upon at last week's related conference held by the National Auto Finance Association. One the primary insights offered was that overall, used-vehicle portfolios performed better than new-vehicle portfolios, ... [Read More]

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — ARI announced recently that it acquired the assets of Powersports Outsourcing Group to add F&I products and services for its customers. Powersports Outsourcing Group, which is located in Schenectady, N.Y., has been offering outsourced F&I products to powersports, marine and ... [Read More]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The total number of U.S. bankruptcies continued on an upward track according to data shared by the American Bankruptcy Institute. During the first three months of this year, ABI reported a 34.5-percent jump in bankruptcies as compared to ... [Read More]

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — In its latest quarterly analysis, Experian Automotive discovered that a down economy and stricter lending criteria have pushed more consumers toward used-vehicle loans. In fact, the company found that used-vehicle loans accounted for 68.13 percent of all auto ... [Read More]

SALT LAKE CITY — Prestige Financial Services recently announced that a transaction with a pair of financial institutions has more than doubled a line of credit funding capacity. First, Prestige revealed that Bank of America Business Capital has joined a line ... [Read More]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After plummeting to a record low in March, interest rates on new-car loans at auto finance companies showed a slight uptick in April, coming in at 2.79 percent, compared with 2.74 percent in March. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve also ... [Read More]

FORT WORTH — How are three auto finance companies handling the meltdown in the credit market and continuing to help get credit-challenged consumers behind the wheels of vehicles? Three presidents representing Westlake Financial Services, Regional Acceptance Corp. and First Investors Financial ... [Read More]

FORT WORTH — Later in the day on Thursday, Daniel Pavlinac, senior director in the Web Intelligence Research Division at J.D. Power and Associates, offered a unique look into consumer online chatter about auto loans. Basically, he said capturing data in ... [Read More]