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Westlake Financial Services and its volunteering division, P.A.L.S. (People Affecting Lives through Service), hosted children from the Boys & Girls Club of East Los Angeles this past Friday during Westlake’s annual Sales Conference Teambuilding Event.

PayNearMe, the cash transaction network, today announced the release of PayNearMe Auto, a simple Web-based application that allows Buy Here Pay Here (BHPH) auto dealers to accept cash payments in an entirely new way.

Hudson Cook LLP, a nationwide provider of legal compliance services for the financial services industry, recently announced the addition of three attorneys and the establishment of the firm’s New England offices.

Performance Incorporated, a business unit of ADP Dealer Services has hired industry expert Mark Dubois to head up its entry into the Buy Here Pay Here “Performance 20 Group” market.

The nation’s leading reinsurance management company for automobile dealers, Portfolio General Management Group, Inc., has launched the Portfolio Protection Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) Limited Warranty program in response to its dealers’ need for an alternative to factory-sponsored CPO warranties.

Automotive Compliance Consultants, the only dealership-exclusive compliance experts in the industry, now enables dealers to easily access from one website all three major credit bureaus and all credit-related documents to help them work deals more quickly and in complete compliance with various consumer laws.

Ally Financial’s SmartAuction vehicle auction web site and Renovo Services announced that they have started selling repossessed vehicles directly from secured storage facilities across the country.

To save time and improve accuracy, Prestige Financial Services Inc., a premier provider of consumer financing solutions for automobile dealerships, selected SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, to revamp its internal credit scorecard program.

Auto/Mate announced it has entered into a joint marketing agreement with Constellation Automotive Software, developers of the Management System Plus Buy Here - Pay Here software for auto dealerships (MSP).

Ally Financial’s SmartAuction vehicle auction web site launched enhancements to its popular Dealer eVantage inventory management tool.