
Dealerships Are Paying the Price for Extended Car Loans
Growing negative-equity scenarios mean such lengthy terms should be addressed in a forward-looking way to make them work for the dealer and the consumer down the road.
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Growing negative-equity scenarios mean such lengthy terms should be addressed in a forward-looking way to make them work for the dealer and the consumer down the road.
Read More →GMAC Financial Services has completed the sale of its U.S. consumer property and casualty insurance business, GMAC Insurance Personal Lines, to American Capital Acquisition Corporation (ACAC). The sale includes GMAC's U.S automobile, commercial vehicle, motorcycle and recreational vehicle insurance offerings.
Read More →AmeriCredit Corp. announced Monday the expansion and extension of its warehouse credit facility to $1.3 billion, which includes commitments from eight lenders.
Read More →Westlake Financial Services, a full-spectrum indirect auto finance company, received a new $100 million revolving securitization facility from Wells Fargo Preferred Capital. The facility will be funded through a Westlake subsidiary, Westlake Funding III, and has a maturity of three years.
Read More →Finance Express, a provider of Web-based financial services and technology for independent dealerships, announced today that it has added Wachovia Dealer Services to its platform.
Read More →Lending to the nation’s 17,000 franchised dealers to purchase new- and used-vehicle inventory continues to lag, making it a top issue for the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA). The dealer association said that a hearing on Feb. 25 by the Congressional Oversight Panel on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) highlights the ongoing need to provide more liquidity for auto business lending.
Read More →Asbury Automotive Group Inc. reported income from continuing operations of $5 million for the fourth quarter 2009, compared to a loss from continuing operations of $352.4 million in the year-ago period.
Read More →The national 60-day auto delinquency rate showed no change between the third and fourth quarters of 2009 at 0.81 percent, according to TransUnion's quarterly analysis of trends in the auto industry.
Read More →Risk-Based Pricing Rules represent the latest in consumer-protection regulations, but they aren’t easy to decipher. Compliance expert breaks down the rules and offers some guidance.
Read More →Carbiz Inc. has officially ceased operations, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The news follows months of uncertainty for the buy-here, pay-here (BHPH) dealer group, which operated 25 stores in nine states.
Read More →Wolters Kluwer Financial Services announced today that MB Financial Bank has joined its AppOne platform to automate and help simplify loan processing for motorcycle dealers.
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