With circumstances changing so quickly, the Federal Reserve on Sunday afternoon cut interest rates to zero percent and announced it would purchase $700 billion in bonds and securities to help stabilize the financial system in light of COVID-19. Policymakers were ... [Read More]

Add the North American Repossessors Summit (NARS) to this list of industry events being forced to modify its schedule due to the increased risk associated with COVID-19. The American Recovery Association sent a message late on Thursday, saying the organization ... [Read More]

UPDATE: A recorded version of this webinar is now available. With dealerships and finance companies facing an array of unknown variables connected with increased risk associated with COVID-19, Ignite Consulting Partners is hosting a free webinar to help managers navigate ... [Read More]

Press releases arrive in the inboxes of us here at Cherokee Media Group throughout each business day. Most times, comments from executives contained in these releases focus on flowery language about the company’s newest product or executive. However, the opening ... [Read More]

After sharpening the solution for nearly a year, PAR North America is ready to broaden the availability of a service aimed at enhancing the wholesaling of repossessed vehicles. The KAR Global business unit on Tuesday announced the expansion of its ... [Read More]

White Clarke Group and Solutions by Text are now working together to provide a fast, more convenient means of regular communication among finance companies, dealerships and their customers. This week, the finance technology company and the automated SMS software provider ... [Read More]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau explained how it potentially could be quite monetarily worthwhile for someone to be a whistleblower. In fact, it could be as much as $10 million worthwhile in funds from the company found guilty of infractions ... [Read More]

Along with reviewing some of its 2019 metrics connected with the subprime auto asset-backed securities market, Fitch Ratings shared the five factors that analysts anticipate to have an impact throughout the securitization market this year. Analysts described these five factors ... [Read More]

Officials from 700Credit recently finalized another alliance to make their credit reports, compliance solutions and consumer pre-qualification products available to more dealerships. The latest relationship is with Advent Resources, which offers Advent DMS, a cloud-based platform for dealers. The companies ... [Read More]

Our podcast episodes originating from last month’s automotive festivities in Las Vegas continue with a conversation featuring Cheryl Miller and Kaitlin Gavin of Dealertrack. During the Vehicle Finance Conference hosted by the American Financial Services Association, Miller and Gavin shared ... [Read More]