Agenda Set for Auto Finance Summit

The agenda has been set for the Auto Finance Summit, the industry’s premier event, with a particular focus on liquidity and the credit crisis.

Now in its ninth year, the Auto Finance Summit — sponsored, in part, by AutoFinanceNews.net — draws the entire automotive lending and leasing community for meaningful discussion and debate on the future of the industry. This year’s conference will take place Oct. 12-13 in Las Vegas.

The agenda has been modified to reflect the changes in the marketplace. For starters, two sessions will be geared toward liquidity — one that relates to the capital markets and the other to lenders’ bank funders. The conference will also contain a Leasing Track, with sessions focusing on how retrenchment of the Detroit Three will affect leasing, what’s going on in fleet financing, how residual values are trending, and what’s new from the auction lanes.

The conference will also include a training session to help lenders enhance their credit and strategic skills, and a session on the role of Twitter, blogs, and social networks in auto finance. Even with a greater number of sessions, the overall schedule has been streamlined into two days instead of three.

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