RIFCO Acquisition Closes FridayStill nothing from Chesswood. I hope most shareholders took cash.
Positives for the transaction:
+ Used car prices are much higher (helps originations and credit)
+ Oil prices much higher (+100 in CAD) - should help Alberta
+ Chesswood much lower funding costs. Could put a good chunk of RIFCO receivables on the corporate revolver facility and save about 70bps.
Chesswood should do some more consolidation in the industry and then sell the entity to a larger buyer.