FI showroom red and grey logo
MenuMENU
SearchSEARCH

Auto Finance

News•August 25, 2016

Growing Student Debt Expected to Hurt Retailers, Moody's Warns

The largest share of outstanding student loans is held by graduates age 30 to 39, according to the firm. Many of these graduates belong to the millennial generation, which, according to Pew Research, have overtaken Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living generation.

Read More →
News•August 25, 2016

Black Book: Wholesale Car Values Falling at Fastest Pace This Year

The wholesale value of 2008-2014 model-year cars continued to fall last week, according to Black Book’s Market Insights report. While many of the familiar trends — trucks performing better than cars — were present, there were some outliers.

Read More →
News•August 25, 2016

Amazon Enters the Vehicle-Shopping Business

The ecommerce site stopped short of saying it's looking to compete against lead sites like Cars.com, TrueCar, and Edmunds.com, describing its new web page as a car research destination and automotive community designed to help 'customers get the information they need when shopping for vehicles, images, videos, customer reviews.'

Read More →
Ad Loading...
News•August 24, 2016

Driver Satisfaction Improves for 16 Automotive Brands, ACSI Reports

Among the 24 automotive brands tracked by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, 16 showed improvement and five showed declines. Three of those declines came from premium brands, the most notable being Volkswagen.

Read More →
News•August 23, 2016

U.S. Bank Names ADESA Northwest Auction of the Year

For the sixth consecutive year, ADESA Northwest was selected as the U.S. Bank Auction of the Year in the marine/RV segment. .

Read More →
News•August 19, 2016

Texas Dealers Agree to Pay $85,000 for Deceptive Advertising

Three Dallas-area dealerships have agreed to pay $85,000 to settle charges that they violated a 2014 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) administrative order that barred them from deceptively advertising the cost of buying or leasing a car.

Read More →
Ad Loading...
News•August 18, 2016

Protective to Acquire United States Warranty Corp.

Protective Life Corp. announced last Friday that it has reached an agreement to acquire USWC Holding Company and all its subsidiaries, including United States Warranty Corp., through a stock purchase agreement.

Read More →
News•August 18, 2016

CU Direct Network Grows Origination Volume 16.4% Through Q2

CU Direct's credit union network was the No. 3 auto loan originator in the first quarter. However, the network posted the highest year-over-year growth in auto originations.

Read More →
Articles•by Tariq Kamal•August 18, 2016

Magazine Offers Details on Compliance Summit Program

Scheduled for Aug. 29-30, Compliance Summit is designed to deliver a crash course in federal regulations and enforcement action to help dealers, agents and industry execs build sustainable sales and F&I processes without sacrificing productivity and profitability.

Read More →
Ad Loading...
Articles•August 18, 2016

F&I and Showroom Names 2016 F&I Pacesetters

This year’s field of F&I Pacesetters includes operations from California, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin. One of them will be named F&I and Showroom's 2016 F&I Dealer of the Year at Industry Summit 2016.

Read More →