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Ally Financial Inc. launches Ally Buyer’s Choice, an industry-first product offering for U.S. dealers and customers on new 2011 and 2012 General Motors and Chrysler vehicles.

Advanced Lending & Portfolio Services (ALPS) announces strong quarterly results with a total portfolio size of $11.5 Million at the end of Q3. This represents a 2000% growth year over year.

vAuto announces today that its customers can now quickly and efficiently source used vehicles available at Auction Pipeline auctions, including the ability to access run lists from within vAuto’s proprietary stocking module.

According to the Used/CPO Car Insights Report, which provides analysis of monthly activity for both used (non-CPO) and CPO vehicles on the AutoTrader.com site, Hyundai captured five of the top 20 spots for CPO “Big Movers” in September.

CNA National is pleased to announce that Tim Schilling has accepted the newly created position of actuarial director, effective October 17.

Southside Financial Group, an active purchaser of auto finance receivables, today announced the launch of a nationwide program to purchase existing near prime and subprime auto loan portfolios from franchised and independent auto dealers.

The Dataium ASI index, a leading predictive indicator of automotive sales, showed the largest month over month gain in the past four months, indicating that 2011 vehicle sales are on track to post around a 10% increase in sales volume over last year.

Equifax' most recent national, monthly report on automotive consumer credit trends continues to indicate positive news for the industry, with January - June 2011 new auto loan originations up 15 percent over the same period in 2010.

AutoUSA Internet Sales Solutions announced today the results of its 2011 auto dealer Internet marketing survey.

MaximTrak Technologies, a leading systems developer for the retail automotive, motorcycle and powersports finance and insurance industry, announced a strategic partnership and integration with F&I Administration Solutions, LLC, the country’s leading provider of software for the administration of automotive F&I products.