3 years ago
Motor finance companies such as ours generate a lot of data, and historically we’ve been good at interrogating that information to spot useful trends and signals.
It’s this kind of expertise that allows us to underwrite with accuracy, for example.
However, it’s probably fair to say that we’ve not been quite so good at sharing that data and those skills with dealers and other introducers.
So, we’ve been looking at new and innovative ways of changing that situation as part of a wide-ranging digitisation project that was planned before the pandemic and has continued through the past year.
We have two reasons for wanting to use our data more imaginatively in this way.
Firstly, we want to build closer relationships with those partners and secondly, we recognise that the right initiatives can be used to add value and ultimately profitability for all.
The principal result of this thinking is a new solution called Insights that we plan to make available to vehicle retailers and other introducers soon.
It’s a range of online tools that will allow them to dig deeper into the finance deals they write with us to gain greater understanding.
With Insights, we aim to deliver information that can be accessed online to help with everything from day-to-day management to major strategic decisions.
That means providing easy visibility over all key aspects of transactions on a daily, weekly and monthly basis but also offering information about customer score, credit bandings and credit quality.
Our belief is that this data, used correctly, could help businesses to identify new approaches to motor finance sales and marketing.
It is all about putting the data to work for dealers and introducers.
If they can identify trends that are developing among their customer base from our information, then there may be ways in which they can evolve their proposition to meet those needs.
We believe that the information we gather is much underused in this manner and that correctly employed, it can add to your bottom line. We can’t wait to show it to dealers and see how they use it in real world conditions.
Internal digitisation is also a priority
Alongside Startline’s development of Insights for our dealers, our other main digitisation project has been to look in detail at how we use technology inside the business, with investments designed to improve the in-life journey of motor finance end users through offering increased digitisation of key services.
The aim is to enable these customers to reach the information they want as quickly as possible online and then allow them to easily take whatever actions they need.
For us, these are key differentiators in the current market.
Looking to the future, we are aiming to increasingly treat digitisation as not just a long-term, major project but paying attention to real-world systems and processes that are used on a day-to-day basis, and spotting where pragmatic and positive changes can be made.
This has definite value for us, for dealers and introducers, and for their customers.
About Startline Motor Finance
Startline Motor Finance uses a unique mix of technology, financial acumen and human skills to often approve applicants who have been previously declined by mainstream prime lenders, while still offering attractive and competitive rates and terms.
We now work with more than half of the UK’s top 50 dealers by turnover, adding flexibility to their lending panels and meeting the needs of car buyers who might otherwise be lost by vehicle retailers and other introducers.
Managed by a highly experienced motor finance team, the business is headquartered in Glasgow with a sales presence throughout the whole of the UK.
For further information, email enquiries@startlinemotorfinance.com or visit www.startlinemotorfinance.com.
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