Connecting auto finance, risk management & interest rates ahead of Fed’s last policy meeting of year
Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, 10:23 AM
COMMENTARY: A dealer's 2026 strategy guide for F&I in the new age of affordability
Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, 09:55 AM
Growing volume of paper booked in Q3 has terms stretching toward 2033
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, 10:58 AM
Cutting keys & cutting costs during repossessions and recoveries
Drawing standing-room-only attendance in the second-largest setting at Used Car Week 2025, Ryan Miller led a six-executive panel session that focused on one of the most complex challenges in all of repossessions and recoveries. Now available through this episode of ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:42 PM
Four experts on automotive & the economy
Used Car Week 2025 again brought together experts who can explain which parts of the economy impact automotive most. This year’s event included views from Laura Wehunt of Black Book, Tim Gill of the American Financial Services Association, T.J. Cox ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:39 PM
Sponsored Episode: Winning Trade-Ins and Trust – Navigating Today’s Affordability Challenges
Affordability challenges are reshaping the automotive landscape—vehicle prices and payments are at all-time highs and negative equity is on the rise. In this episode, Micah Tindor offers a data-driven conversation with real-world strategies around acquisition tactics and long-term profitability to ... Listen Here
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 03:15 PM
TransUnion spots stability in auto & record in personal loans
Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, 05:20 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
While mentioning an overall uptick in products being used by consumers falling into the non-prime credit category, the auto portion of TransUnion’s Q4 2021 Quarterly Credit Industry Insights Report (CIIR) contained information and insights that finance companies might find encouraging. ... [Read More]
JM Family installs permanent CFO
Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, 04:12 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
JM Family Enterprises tapped Eric Gebhard to be the company’s interim chief financial officer last May. On Wednesday, an executive Gebhard helped to recruit became the company’s permanent CFO. Taking on this role as well as holding the title of ... [Read More]
LAUNCHER.SOLUTIONS & VoltSwitch partner to speed funding
Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, 04:10 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
LAUNCHER.SOLUTIONS said Tuesday that it has completed its integration with VoltSwitch GPS’s Vehicle Tracking platform. The technology provider specializing in originations explained that this integration can provide finance companies with a faster and more seamless funding experience for deals with ... [Read More]
Another Westlake division sets records in 2021
Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, 05:33 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
As one subsidiary of Westlake Technology Holdings posted records in the vehicle leasing space last year, another of its subsidiaries that specializes in shared cash flow auto lending generated new company records in 2021, too. According to a news release, ... [Read More]
Solera to add Spireon to automotive technology portfolio
Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, 05:20 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Spireon is likely familiar to both finance companies as well as fleet operators that use its services to track vehicles. According to a news release, Spireon now is on a path to have new ownership by the end of the ... [Read More]
Experian expands credit-building tools for consumers
Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, 04:56 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Another initiative to help finance companies cater to consumers with little or no credit backgrounds recently surfaced; this time from Experian. In what the company said is meant to further financial inclusion across the United States, Experian launched what it ... [Read More]
Florida dealer group involved in credit-building program dubbed ‘Grow & Drive’
Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, 04:31 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
A Florida-based group that owns and operates five franchised stores in the Sunshine State as well as Georgia and South Carolina is the first dealer group in the U.S. to work with Grow Credit, which is a financial inclusion platform ... [Read More]
CFPB turns attention to what it calls ‘junk fees’
Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, 03:50 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) launched an initiative on Wednesday in connection with what the federal regulator called “exploitative junk fees” charged by banks and financial companies. The CFPB said through a news release that it’s making this request ... [Read More]
Former DealerSocket exec now COO at VisionMenu
Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022, 04:42 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
VisionMenu welcomed a new chief operating officer this week. Taking on the position for the F&I software provider is Steven Meeker, who arrives as VisionMenu said it’s experiencing rapid growth that prompted the expansion of its executive team to meet ... [Read More]
CreditMiner & TransUnion partner to fight synthetic fraud
Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022, 04:38 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
CreditMiner and TransUnion are working together in an attempt to keep fraud from infecting dealerships. The companies announced a new partnership this week that enables them to offer the automotive industry cutting-edge fraud prevention technologies via their API capabilities. CreditMiner ... [Read More]
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