Helpful articles on topics related to personal financial health and well-being
Go figure. Before you purchase your next vehicle. Use the auto finance calculators in the Learning Center at Santander Consumer USA’s website to help you figure out just how much car you can afford. While we are in the business…
More consumers than ever are opting to purchase electric vehicles. But that still was only about 280,000 last year, according to the International Energy Agency, or around 1.6 percent of U.S. new-vehicle sales. While sales have been climbing steadily –…
How much car can you afford to buy? Financial experts will say you can afford as much as suggested by the 20/4/10 rule – 20 percent down, four years of financing, and no more than 10 percent of your gross…
Credit score changes aren’t always a good thing. But sometimes they are. You might have noticed that recently if you are among about eight million Americans with credit score changes resulting from a new rule implemented last year affecting the…
Yes, tax season still is about two months away. And you probably would rather think about the holidays between now and then. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s too soon to start figuring out how (or whether) to use an…
As bad as you might think the Equifax credit bureau data theft was … think again. It probably was worse than you imagined. The credit bureau, one of the nation’s three major reporting agencies, reported that records of 143 million…