finance and insurance (F&I)

Latest News 28 Aug

Alfa launches 0% finance for plate-change

Alfa Romeo is offering 0% finance on its Giulietta for the plate-change month of September.
Manufacturer 16 Aug

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Car Dealer News 15 Aug

PPI still top of financial complaints

Payment protection insurance (PPI) continues to take the top spot for complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service with 1,500 cases each day.
Supplier News 8 Aug

New car finance growth continues in first half of 2012

The value of new car finance increased by 38% and the number of cars bought on finance rose by 27% in the Q2 this year in comparison to the same period in 2011.
Manufacturer 8 Aug

Suzuki launches new contract hire product

Suzuki is launching a new dealer finance product in partnership with Black Horse.
Manufacturer 16 Jul

Suzuki continues 20% discount offer

Suzuki GB has pledged to continue its 20% discount, promoted as VAT free, until the end of September.
Manufacturer 13 Jul

Great Wall offering Steed for £1 deposit

Great Wall business customers can now secure a Steed pick-up on finance with a £1 deposit.
Latest News 10 Jul

Parliamentary report urges support for motor industry ‘already delivering on opportunities’

A new report by the influential All-Party Parliamentary Motor Group (APMG), ‘Delivering opportunities: Automotive investment for growth’, calls on the government to ensure companies can access the finance they need.
Car Dealer News 10 Jul

MotoNovo Finance releases free online finance application for dealers

Dealers that are customers of MotoNovo Finance and have websites built by Raszor or Spidersnet can now incorporate a free online finance calculator and online finance application into their websites.
Market Insight 5 Jul

Interest rates stay at 0.5% as Bank of England pumps £50bn into UK economy

The Bank of England has kept interest rates at 0.5% and will inject £50 billion into the UK economy over the next four months through quantitative easing (QE).
Car Dealer News 4 Jul

Financial ombudsman complaints drop in Q2 but PPI still dominates majority

Payment protection insurance (PPI) made up 56% of the total complaints to the financial ombudsman between April and June.
Supplier News 20 Jun

HPI relaunches seven-day driveway cover

HPI has relaunched its seven-day free insurance programme with its new partnership with Swinton.
Car Dealer News 19 Jun

Eastern Western Motor Group and Hartwell now SAF approved

Eastern Western Motor Group and Hartwell are the latest high-profile motor dealers to become Specialist Automotive Finance (SAF) approved.
Car Dealer News 12 Jun

New and used car finance continues to grow

New car sales on finance grew 41% by value and 29% by volume in April year-on-year according to the latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association.
Manufacturer 11 Jun

Read the June 2012 edition of AMe

The June issue of AMe is now live, featuring fresh new content separate to the magazine edition.
Market Insight 11 Jun

Short-term UK business prospects improve

The UK’s short-term business prospects have improved, with the consensus on current trading reaching a 12-month high.
Supplier News 25 May

RoSPA deal to tackle high insurance costs

In a bid to help make motor insurance more affordable the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has signed an exclusive agreement which will enable insurance premiums to be based on an accurate level of individual risk, rather than traditional proxies such as age, gender and postcode.
Supplier News 23 May

New entrant in motor finance market

Hitachi Capital is to enter the UK motor finance market.
Market Insight 23 May

Carcraft owner fined over PPI sales

The owner of used car dealer Carcraft has been fined £91,000 by the Financial Services Authority over its failure to properly monitor staff selling £3m of payment protection insurance.
Car Dealer News 22 May

PPI prompts almost 6,000 unfounded claims

The Financial Ombudsman Service has revealed that of its 157,716 complaints against being mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI), 5,667 of them were unfounded.