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MF Editorial
Carrots and sticks steer consumers toward greener cars
A new survey of car buying habits by Motorpoint has found that two thirds of UK motorists would now buy a car with better green credentials to avoid paying higher road tax
Relatively easy to find a new product niche?
Peter Cooke argues that it is time that lenders devised a credit arrangement for all the family
Federation achieves record profit of £26m
Federation achieves record profit of £26m The Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMIF) has gone from a loss in 2006 to a profit in 2007, thanks to the sale of its ReMIT training business in May 2006.
Janet Wilson, managing director, Close Motor Finance Ltd
Janet Wilson, managing director, Close Motor Finance Ltd What was your first ever job I had the job of making butter rounds and pressing them with a clover leaf pattern
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Lessons from the US
Lessons from the US The recent Auto Finance Summit in Las Vegas offered useful insights into the thinking of the US motor finance industry, and showed their preoccupations to be broadly similar to those of their UK counterparts
ING Car Lease: Forestry Commission fleet deal
ING Car Lease: Forestry Commission fleet deal ING Car Lease has won a deal to provide the Forestry Commission with car leasing services, to a maximum value of £293,000 per year.
Risk-based pricing at the PoS
Risk-based pricing at the PoS On November 1 Black Horse Motor Finance launched a pilot scheme to test AutoRate Plus, its new point-of-sale (PoS) tool.
An expensive oversight
But the case below is a timely reminder that, even where a party is successful, a failure to provide an accurate and realistic costs estimate at the outset of the case, or to update it at regular intervals when the estimate is exceeded, may lead to the court imposing sanctions and restricting costs recovery
Lex: Daily customer service monitoring for dealers
Lex: Daily customer service monitoring for dealers Lessor Lex has introduced a new performance monitoring tool for the 1,800 dealers who service its clients cars, which will allow dealers to check the feedback they receive from Lex drivers – on a daily basis