Late last month, the three nationwide consumer reporting companies — Equifax, TransUnion and Experian — announced that they would allow people to check their credit reports for free once a week through December. And coinciding with that decision, the Consumer ... [Read More]

Automotive Personnel founder Don Jasensky now has run his own executive search firm to help finance companies and dealerships for 33 years. And during the past couple of years, Jasensky has seen some of the most dramatic changes with how ... [Read More]

While mentioning an overall uptick in products being used by consumers falling into the non-prime credit category, the auto portion of TransUnion’s Q4 2021 Quarterly Credit Industry Insights Report (CIIR) contained information and insights that finance companies might find encouraging. ... [Read More]

JM Family Enterprises tapped Eric Gebhard to be the company’s interim chief financial officer last May. On Wednesday, an executive Gebhard helped to recruit became the company’s permanent CFO. Taking on this role as well as holding the title of ... [Read More]

LAUNCHER.SOLUTIONS said Tuesday that it has completed its integration with VoltSwitch GPS’s Vehicle Tracking platform. The technology provider specializing in originations explained that this integration can provide finance companies with a faster and more seamless funding experience for deals with ... [Read More]

As one subsidiary of Westlake Technology Holdings posted records in the vehicle leasing space last year, another of its subsidiaries that specializes in shared cash flow auto lending generated new company records in 2021, too. According to a news release, ... [Read More]

Spireon is likely familiar to both finance companies as well as fleet operators that use its services to track vehicles. According to a news release, Spireon now is on a path to have new ownership by the end of the ... [Read More]

Another initiative to help finance companies cater to consumers with little or no credit backgrounds recently surfaced; this time from Experian. In what the company said is meant to further financial inclusion across the United States, Experian launched what it ... [Read More]

A Florida-based group that owns and operates five franchised stores in the Sunshine State as well as Georgia and South Carolina is the first dealer group in the U.S. to work with Grow Credit, which is a financial inclusion platform ... [Read More]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) launched an initiative on Wednesday in connection with what the federal regulator called “exploitative junk fees” charged by banks and financial companies. The CFPB said through a news release that it’s making this request ... [Read More]