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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.

vAuto announces the release today of Provision, a powerful used vehicle inventory management engine that will eliminate the pain of finding used vehicles and optimizing inventories for profitability for auto dealers.

Payless® Car Sales, Inc., America’s Used Car Company®, announced today that a program agreement has been signed with JM&A Group to administer its Payless AssuranceSM Certified Pre-Owned Program.

Dealers who use vAuto’s RealDeal get more online vehicle shopper interest and leads than dealerships that do not, according to results of a test conducted with AutoTrader.com.

Prestige Financial has established a $30 million line of credit with Chase Utah. The new line represents a renewed and growing relationship between the two entities, and comes on the heels of a $12 million amortizing term loan facility that they put into place in September.

Auto finance companies have significantly increased lending by more than 47% over the past two years, according to the latest Equifax National Credit Trends Report.