Ally Bank began servicing assets in April 2016. Between April 2016 and March 2017, Ally Bank acted as a sub-servicer for Ally Financial with responsibility for certain servicing activities related to the entire U.S. portfolio of retail installment sale contracts and leases that were not delinquent and serviced by Ally Financial. Ally Bank performs its servicing operations from centers located in Jacksonville, Florida; Lewisville, Texas; and Detroit, Michigan. Since March 2017, Ally Bank began acting as primary servicer for its retail installment sale contracts and leases. Ally Bank only acts as servicer or sub-servicer with respect to receivables it originates or acquires for itself and Ally Financial and its affiliates and does not service assets that were not originated or acquired by Ally Bank for any other parties.
Ally Bank has entered into agreements with Ally Servicing LLC, or “Ally Servicing,” and Ally Financial under which Ally Servicing and Ally Financial have agreed to provide services with respect to the trust. Ally Servicing and Ally Financial act at the direction of Ally Bank and in compliance with the servicing agreement. For a further description of the servicing agreement, see “The Transfer Agreements and the Servicing Agreements” in this prospectus. In the event of any removal of Ally Bank as the servicer, Ally Servicing and Ally Financial may no longer be involved in the servicing of the receivables.
Ally Servicing is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ally Bank. Ally Servicing, a Delaware limited liability company, was originally incorporated as AccuTel, Inc. on April 8, 1999. On July 21, 2005, AccuTel changed its name to Semperian, Inc. Semperian, Inc. subsequently converted to a limited liability company. Semperian LLC changed its name to Ally Servicing LLC in August 2010.
Ally Servicing has its principal office at Ally Detroit Center, 500 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48226 Tel. No. 888-925-2559.
Since 1999, Ally Servicing has acted as a sub-servicer for Ally Financial, and has assumed increased servicing responsibilities over time. Currently, Ally Servicing acts as a sub-servicer for the entire U.S. portfolio of retail installment sale contracts and leases serviced by Ally Bank. Ally Servicing performs its sub-servicing operations from centers located in Jacksonville, Florida; Shoreview, Minnesota; Lewisville, Texas; and Little Rock, Arkansas. Ally Servicing acts as sub-servicer for Ally Bank and its affiliates, including Ally Financial, and acts as servicer for one or more third-parties beginning in the second quarter of 2022.
Prior to March 2017, Ally Financial, directly and through its subsidiaries, most notably Ally Servicing and Ally Bank, serviced prime and non-prime automobile retail installment sale contracts and leases acquired or originated by it and others on behalf of banks, credit unions, finance companies and securitized trusts.
General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the predecessor of Ally Financial, was incorporated in 1919 under the New York Banking Law relating to investment companies. General Motors Acceptance Corporation relinquished that status and became a Delaware corporation on January 1, 1998. In July 2006, General Motors Acceptance Corporation converted to a Delaware limited liability company and changed its name to GMAC LLC. In June 2009, GMAC LLC converted to a Delaware corporation and changed its name to GMAC Inc. On May 10, 2010, GMAC Inc. changed its name to Ally Financial Inc. Ally Financial has its principal corporate offices in Detroit, Michigan and Charlotte, North Carolina. It provides services from multiple locations throughout the United States.
On November 30, 2006, General Motors Corporation sold 51% of the common equity interests of Ally Financial to a consortium of investors, led by an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. We refer to that transaction as the “Acquisition.”
On December 24, 2008, and in connection with the conversion of GMAC Bank into a Utah-chartered commercial nonmember bank, Ally Financial and IB Finance were each approved by the FRB as bank holding companies under the BHCA. IB Finance is a subsidiary of Ally Financial and the direct holding company for Ally Financial’s bank depository institution, GMAC Bank, which is now known as Ally Bank. On December 23, 2013, Ally Financial was approved by the FRB as a financial holding company under the BHCA.
Since becoming a bank holding company, Ally Financial received various investments from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the “Treasury,” in connection with the Treasury’s Supervisory Capital Assessment Program. On November 20, 2013, Ally Financial repurchased all of the Treasury’s then outstanding mandatorily convertible preferred stock. On April 15, 2014, Ally Financial closed an initial public offering of 95,000,000 shares
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