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What might be next for Amazon Autos
Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, 03:52 PM
Cherokee Media Group’s Bill Zadeits hosted a fireside chat with Fan Jin, global leader of Amazon Autos, during Used Car Week 2025. Their wide-ranging conversation about the past, present and future of the online platform and its involvement with automakers ... Listen Here
Auto-finance leaders on growth, risk & recovery
Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, 03:07 PM
It’s a question any business must answer, but it’s especially important in auto finance. How do you balance growth and risk? A trio of industry executives — Mike Goins of TD Bank, Jeff Marsh of Millennium Capital and Recovery and ... Listen Here
Expectations for repossessions in the US & Canada with Purr’s Chris Schellenberger
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, 07:48 PM
Purr founder and CEO Chris Schellenberger opened Used Car Week 2025 on the Live Stage presented by SYCN Auto Logistics. Schellenberger, whose unique business model offers a retail consignment platform for repossessed vehicles, discussed what the repo industry could be ... Listen Here

San Francisco Fed offers new way to look at labor market & spot recessions

Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, 10:59 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco devised a new way of looking at the job market to provide more clarity to the auto-finance industry and the credit space in general. The San Francisco Fed rolled out the Labor Market ... [Read More]

Credit applications tick up as vehicle-buying intentions remain stable

Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, 10:17 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Cox Automotive chief economist Jonathan Smoke said Tuesday that unique credit applications per dealer on Dealertrack increased 6% year-over-year last week, perhaps reflecting some previously mentioned consumer sentiment trends shared by the Conference Board. In his weekly Auto Market Report, ... [Read More]

TransUnion ponders if auto-loan delinquency is at or near peak

Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, 11:01 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
TransUnion acknowledged the percentage of consumers 60 days or more past due on their auto loan climbed to a rate in the second quarter that exceeded what analysts recorded in 2009. But TransUnion also said the pace of increases in ... [Read More]

Ally Financial tops subprime space in J.D. Power study for fifth consecutive year

Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, 10:17 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Along with a discussion about performance among banks, the J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Dealer Financing Satisfaction Study highlighted that Ally Financial topped the chart again among non-captive subprime auto finance companies. The study showed Ally Financial ranked highest in overall ... [Read More]

Fed survey shows steady auto-finance strategy by banks in Q2

Details of upcoming repossession webinars from ARA & Weltman
Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, 01:40 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Banks didn’t make many adjustments in the auto-finance department during the second quarter. The auto-loan portion of the July Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SLOOS) generated by the Federal Reserve showed high percentages of participants keeping ... [Read More]

Hudson Cook adds associate to DC office

Another former Manheim Canada exec joins Otolane
Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, 10:08 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Hudson Cook added to its stable to legal experts last week, announcing that Francesca Gross has joined the firm as an associate in its Washington, D.C. office, focusing on litigation, regulatory compliance, and government investigations. Hudson Cook highlighted Gross brings ... [Read More]

Centerbridge Partners to acquire MeridianLink for $2B

Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, 10:07 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
MeridianLink is going to be a private company. The provider of modern software platforms for financial institutions and consumer reporting agencies announced on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by funds advised by affiliates ... [Read More]

Fed’s Bowman maintains stance for rate cut

Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, 10:23 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Michelle Bowman, who is the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision, was one of two members of the Federal Open Market Committee who dissented from the majority vote that kept interest rates unchanged when policymakers made their decision at the ... [Read More]

Only momentary tariff bump interrupts ongoing expansion of auto credit access

Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, 10:39 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
It appears only talk about tariffs disrupted the upward trajectory of expanded auto credit access since last summer. Cox Automotive reported the Dealertrack Credit Availability Index improved again in July, marking the third consecutive month of enhanced credit access. The ... [Read More]

CFPB seeks input about changing Automobile Financing Larger Participant Rule

Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, 10:24 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
A decade ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau established the Automobile Financing Larger Participant Rule, which created regulatory oversight over providers that originated 10,000 contracts or more annually. That threshold might be changing since the regulator now operates with half ... [Read More]
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