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This Month's Focus

Artificial Intelligence

Bain Survey: Few Companies Ready for Sustainability Rules (24%)

Building on three-year partnership, Bain invests in OpenAI Deployment Company

Wednesday, May. 13, 2026, 12:13 PM

Bain & Company today announced an investment in the Deployment Company, a new venture launched by OpenAI with 19 global partners. According to a news release, the OpenAI Deployment Company is built to help businesses deploy artificial intelligence across their ... Read More

EY study shows Canadians still cautious about AI but using it more for everyday activities

Monday, May. 11, 2026, 03:00 PM

This artificial intelligence is pretty smart, eh? That sentiment might be held by at least some Canadians who are already embedding AI into everyday decisions, often in ways that extend beyond simple assistance into early autonomy, even while concerns about ... Read More

Carfluent’s new AI tool helps dealerships beat aggregators in searches

Monday, May. 11, 2026, 09:51 AM

A growing percentage of consumers now use artificial intelligence as what marketplace Cars.com describes as a “trusted co-pilot” in their search for a vehicle to purchase. Meanwhile, other studies suggest that dealership websites are not visible to many of those ... Read More

Tiger Okeley describes what it’s like for BHPH dealers during another turbulent year

Tuesday, May. 12, 2026, 01:47 PM

Tiger Okeley is the executive board member of Oak Motors, a buy-here, pay-here dealership that’s been in business for more than 40 years in central Indiana. Having seen boom times, recessions, and more, Okeley shared his insight to help owners ... Listen Here

SPONSORED EPISODE: Know your Buyer & Grow your Lot

Tuesday, May. 12, 2026, 09:20 AM

In this insightful episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Auto Trader and KBB executives Elizabeth Stegall and David Lumpkin share findings gleaned from Cox Automotive’s unique research into shoppers who buy from Independent Dealers. Learn how shifting buyer expectations connect ... Listen Here

FICO’s Shams Blanc on lenders sharpening underwriting & more

Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2026, 03:54 PM

Fresh off being in Miami as part of the Used Car Industry Summit that Cherokee Media Group hosted this spring, Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, appeared again on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Blanc discussed ... Listen Here

Credit One Bank survey asks, ‘Would you date someone with bad credit?’

Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, 10:15 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Being in the subprime credit tier not only can make it more difficult to secure auto financing, but it might make it more challenging to have a personal relationship, too. In a new nationwide survey of 1,000 young adults, Credit ... [Read More]

Multiple discussions about repossessions & recoveries on deck for Used Car Week

Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, 12:54 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Repossessions and recoveries will be one of the main topics covered during Used Car Week, which begins on Monday at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas. In fact, the first session of the entire event is a discussion with ... [Read More]

Experian launches new tool to combine credit, cash flow & alternative data into single score

Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, 11:48 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

This week, Experian rolled out what the company said is the most advanced credit decisioning model it has ever released, marking a “positive milestone in Experian’s mission to help increase fair access to credit.” The company highlighted the Experian Credit ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Used Car Week Hall of Famer Becky Igo of Allied Solutions

Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, 10:48 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Becky Igo remembers the first few business trips she made going to industry conferences at a time when things like pay phones and fax machines were critical business-development tools. Now more than four decades later, the regional vice president for ... [Read More]

AutoPayPlus highlights series of technology, compliance & organizational advancements

Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, 11:42 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

AutoPayPlus by US Equity Advantage, an automated financial concierge service, announced that it has achieved a series of technology, compliance, and organizational advancements designed to deliver greater efficiency, accuracy and security for its dealer partners. First, the company said it ... [Read More]

Open Lending unveils ApexOne Auto so lenders can review deeper pool of potential customers

Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, 11:34 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Last week, Open Lending Corp. announced the launch of ApexOne Auto, an advanced decisioning platform that expands the company’s capabilities to serve the full spectrum of auto-finance customers. The provider of automotive lending enablement and risk analytics solutions for financial ... [Read More]

Vitu bookends 2025 with acquisitions; this time of DDI Technology

Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, 09:59 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Vitu began the year by successfully closing its acquisition of the Dealertrack registration and titling businesses from Cox Automotive. And the innovator in vehicle-to-government (V2Gov) technology is rounding out the year with another acquisition. Vitu announced on Friday that it ... [Read More]

LCT’s Refund Control now aligns with new industry standards set by 3 associations

Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, 09:58 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Lender Compliance Technologies (LCT) said Thursday it secured “an important milestone for the industry” in connection with its Refund Control platform. The provider of a tool for managing voluntary protection product (VPP) cancellations and refunds announced that its platform fully ... [Read More]

2025 Repossession Agent of the Year: Phil Hanks of Connect 1 Recovery

Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, 10:34 AM

Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor

Phil Hanks spent more than 17 years in corporate positions associated with the recovery industry. Much of that time was with Manheim, but Hanks also held leadership positions with Primeritus Financial Services and MBSi. Then in April 2013, Hanks established ... [Read More]

2025 Loss Mitigation Executive of the Year: Craig Paterson of GM Financial

Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, 02:23 PM

Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor

Auto loans and retail installment contracts are often referred to by industry executives as paper. When Craig Paterson began his career in automotive, many of the tasks he had to complete were done on paper, too. Much has changed in ... [Read More]

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