LendingTree today announced the launch of its new car lead program, expanding on its existing automotive finance business, LendingTree Autos.

Automotive Compliance Consultants, the only dealership-exclusive compliance experts in the auto industry, advises auto dealers to stay alert to how the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under new director Richard Cordray will affect auto dealerships.

Flagship Credit Acceptance, a national indirect automobile finance company, announced today that its controlling shareholder has increased its capital investment to support the Company’s growing auto finance platform.

Having the wrong person in charge of special finance can cause everyone problems, which is a lesson Sharpnack Chevrolet Buick in Willard, Ohio, learned the hard way. Fortunately, the dealership now has the right person in charge—Mike Mandato, special finance manager.

Dealer Jill Merriam Dulitsky decided in late 2010 to take a closer look at her stores’ special finance departments. The steps taken to effect improvements in SF at Key Hyundai ultimately benefitted the dealership’s overall operations.

RoadLoans is a combination of a lead program and a finance program. Dealers belonging to the program’s Preferred Dealer Network pay a subscription rate for a group of leads (no per-lead fees) to receive exclusive leads on near-prime and non-prime customers, and each lead comes with a built-in offer of financing from RoadLoans, a division of Santander Consumer USA.

Zoombak®, a leading provider of GPS tracking devices, recently announced the launch of Locate Assist™, a new feature for the company’s buy here pay here product, Zoombak GPS Recovery™ Finance Track. This new feature will give buy here pay here dealers an advantage they didn’t have before in tracking their vehicles.