AFSA & NIADA welcome halt of discretionary publication of complaint narratives & visualizations by CFPB
Monday, Aug. 17, 2026, 10:34 AM
Edmunds on depth of ‘The Vanishing Affordable Used Car’
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, 10:17 AM
PODCAST: Additional insight into FTC’s move involving disparate impact from Hudson Cook
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, 09:25 AM
Additional insight into FTC’s move involving disparate impact from Hudson Cook
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced it will not pursue claims based on disparate-impact or “unfair discrimination” theories. In this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Hudson Cook partners Erica Kramer and Rob Tilley offered some historical perspectives and a ... Listen Here
Deeper dive into rising LTVs with TransUnion’s Satyan Merchant
One of the notable findings from TransUnion’s Q2 2026 Credit Industry Insights Report (CIIR) was how much loan-to-value ratios have changed in the past five years. Satyan Merchant, one of this year’s Automotive Intelligence Award recipients and senior vice president ... Listen Here
PayNearMe chief product officer John Minor on intersection of payments & technology
PayNearMe recently shared new search, explaining that hidden costs sustained by auto lenders can show up as failed payments, borrower support calls, late payments, collections follow-up, reconciliation work and manual recovery effort. PayNearMe chief product officer John Minor elaborated about ... Listen Here
Sincro chooses CreditMiner as preferred partner for dealer websites
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
There now is another way to attach soft-pull credit capabilities onto your dealership website. Automotive digital marketing provider Sincro, an Ansira company, announced last week that it has designated CreditMiner as a preferred partner within its website platform. According to ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Alex ‘SkipGuru’ Price on post-pandemic changes in human behavior
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The pandemic and its subsequent aftermath gave Alex "SkipGuru" Price another opportunity to examine human behavior and its application toward skip-tracing and vehicle repossession. The director of training and development for LocateSmarter, a data and analytics company, also explained how new ... [Read More]
US Chamber & 3 banking associations push back against CFPB’s changes to UDAAP manual
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The American Bankers Association, the Consumer Bankers Association, the Independent Community Bankers Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce collaborated to compile a 21-page white paper and sent it to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The paper made the ... [Read More]
APCO Holdings promotes Volatile to SVP of EasyCare
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
APCO Holdings finished the first half of 2022 by promoting one of its executives with an eye toward more growth. The provider and administrator of automotive F&I products and home to the EasyCare and GWC Warranty announced this week that ... [Read More]
Edmunds: Average amount financed for used vehicles jumps by more than $4,400
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
After looking at the new data, it’s probably understandable why Edmunds senior manager of insights Ivan Drury said, “buying a car in 2022 is a whole different ball game.” Edmunds reported the average amount financed for used vehicles delivered in ... [Read More]
ARA changes leadership with new president & executive director
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The American Recovery Association (ARA) closed the first half of 2022 with significant changes in leadership, naming a new president and executive director. Stepping away from those respective roles, Dave Kennedy and Les McCook have handed the ARA leadership responsibilities ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Reviewing consumer migration trends with Jeremiah Wheeler of DRN & MVTRAC
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Senior editor Nick Zulovich spent part of his time in Denver for the North American Repossessors Summit sharing another conversation for the Auto Remarketing Podcast with Jeremiah Wheeler, who is president of DRN and MVTRAC. In light of inflation pushing ... [Read More]
New paycheck-to-paycheck research with ‘unhappy summer’ looming
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
With S&P Global Ratings acknowledging that the U.S. economy “could be facing an unhappy summer,” LendingClub Corp. released findings from the 11th edition of the Reality Check: Paycheck-To-Paycheck research series, conducted in partnership with PYMNTS.com. LendingClub highlighted the Financial Distress ... [Read More]
New FrogData solution aims to smooth warranty claims & improve dealer cash flow
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
FrogData is looking to help dealerships meet the commitments made when selling warranties during the vehicle delivery process. The company recently launched WarrantyMind, a data platform for warranty claims processing that designed to solve critical warranty administration problems at dealerships. ... [Read More]
Auto defaults up 10 of the past 11 months
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
While not at the upward pace of headline-grabbing metrics such as inflation or gas prices, nonetheless auto defaults are moving higher. And they have been now for 10 of the past 11 months. According to data through May 2022 for ... [Read More]
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