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Airlines with their credit cards are basically banks that happen to fly planes. Starbucks' mobile app is a bank that happens to sell coffee. Auto companies have long had financing arms; if anything, providing insurance on top of a lease is the natural extension of that.
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ghaff • yesterday at 12:27 AM
Auto companies, yes. As I understand it, airline credit cards are mostly just co-branded cards with existing banks like Chase.
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> Auto companies have long had financing arms
I have in fact heard it said that VW group is a financing company with a automobile arm. From some points of view, that seems correct.