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Verdict Staff
VWFS enter insurance agreement with Ageas UK
Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS) UK and insurer Ageas UK have entered into an agreement which will see customers buying an Audi, Volkswagen, Skoda, Seat or Volkswagen Commercial Vehicle gain access to a motor insurance package.
New director for Seat UK
Richard Harrison has been appointed as the director of SEAT UK, a part of Volkswagen Group.
Motor Finance Awards finalists revealed
The finalists for the inaugural European Motor Finance Awards, due to be hosted in Munich on 23rd of April have been revealed.
Twenty-first century vision
As the world moves ever closer towards fully autonomous cars, Jonathan Minter investigate the potential of driverless technology
All change at Frontline Solutions
In February, it was revealed that Andy Shuter was planning on selling the controlling interest of technology provider Frontline Solutions to private equity firm CV6. Alongside the sale, Shuter moved on from his position as joint managing director of the company to take on a new role heading up Frontlines global growth strategy and development into new markets. Motor Finance caught up with Shuter to discuss why now is the right time to change things at the business, and just what his new role will entail.
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The Korean brand that doesnt want to go mainstream
With an increase in the number of dealerships and ambitions to double sales in 2015, SsangYong Motor UK is confident at a time when private sales growth is slowing down. Sotiris Kanaris talks to chief executive officer Paul Williams
Buy a car on an online auction site and you could get stuck up a gum tree
Andy Thomas highlights one of the motor finance industry’s latest headaches
Prophecies of doom about personal contract purchase are wrong
Several industry commentators have suggested recently that the used car market is heading for a valuation ‘crash’ prompted by oversupply as three-year-old cars bought on PCP are returned.
Challenges the FCA authorisation poses to the motor industry
In April last year the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) took over regulation of the consumer credit sector from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). With this change came the challenges of obtaining authorisation from the FCA to continue to offer finance to customers and maintaining compliance with the FCA’s rules going forward – a more onerous task than under the OFT.
Box-ticking is not CCD-compliant
A recent case in the European Court of Justice provides clear guidance regarding the precautions lenders must take to ensure they discharges their pre-contractual obligations to the consumer, explains Greg Standing