"Our customers will be able to access a wide range of financing options," said Steve Kelleher, vice president of sales for Hyundai Auto Canada. "Our dealers can now offer the fastest credit approval process for automobile financing in Canada." Hyundai has always farmed out its lease operations in Canada, most recently with CIBC, but before that with the PRIMUS arm of Ford Motor Credit. Hyundai moved about 22,000 cars in Canada last year, for a total value of C$374 million ($267 million). About half that amount is in leasing. Funding for FinanciaLinx lease products is shared between Newcourt and Bank of Montreal, while the latter also tends the lending program at Hyundai. In the U.S., Hyundai Motor Finance Corp. is mulling over a return to the ABS market after an absence of more than a year. "We're looking at the marketplace," said David Hoeller, vice president of finance at Hyundai in the U.S. The firm's last deal was a car loan-backed issue for $300 million brought by Salomon Smith Barney in April 1998.