FINANCE AND INSURANCE

Automotive News' Leading Women conference and the F&I Special Section both addressed the need for more female representation in the automotive industry and how it benefits everyone.

As in the second quarter, the groups blamed interest rates for the decline.

Only 1 of 48 banks had eased their requirements for car loans in the three months leading up to the Federal Reserve's latest quarterly Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey. The rest tightened or preserved their policies.

InformedIQ identified add-on purchase trends by analyzing about 300,000 documents collected from the first nine months of 2023.