AFSA & NIADA welcome halt of discretionary publication of complaint narratives & visualizations by CFPB
Monday, Aug. 17, 2026, 10:34 AM
DriveItAway posts highest monthly revenue in company history
Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, 10:26 AM
Credit Acceptance plucks Amazon AI expert to be CTO
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026, 09:48 AM
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
Matt Babcock of Wolters Kluwer on how digital transformation continues to gain steam in auto financing
Matt Babcock, who heads up digital lending product strategy for Wolters Kluwer, returned for another visit on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Wolter Kluwer recently released its latest quarterly Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index. Babcock recapped the sustained upward trajectory the ... Listen Here
DOJ roundup: SCUSA settlement & NC trio pleads guilty in fraud scheme
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Department of Justice made a pair of announcements last week, with one involving Santander Consumer USA and the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA). According to a news release, the finance company’s Chrysler Capital division has agreed to pay more ... [Read More]
Starmark Financial hires Venditti as EVP of operations
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Starmark Financial, a national debt buyer and first- and third-party servicer of accounts receivable for national and regional lenders, recently hired Daniel Venditti as executive vice president of operations. Venditti brings more than 24 years of financial services industry experience ... [Read More]
Flagship Credit Acceptance celebrates football with latest dealer campaign
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Plenty of exciting football action is on the docket this weekend with multiple Top 25 matchups in the college realm and Tom Brady playing his first NFL game against the New England Patriots. Flagship Credit Acceptance is leveraging the enthusiasm ... [Read More]
Partisan journey finally ends with Chopra becoming CFPB director
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Culminating a partisan slog that stretched from Inauguration Day through the close of the third quarter, the U.S. Senate confirmed Rohit Chopra as the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday by a 50-48 final vote that ... [Read More]
Economic & investment outlooks all hinge on common thread
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
The prognosis for the economy, finance companies and investors continues to be mixed since experts and policymakers keep pointing toward a factor that has shown to be incredibly difficult to control. Cox Automotive, the Federal Reserve, the National Association of ... [Read More]
Advantage GPS acquires Asset Tracking Technology
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Mergers and acquisitions continue to permeate the entire automotive industry. Tuesday’s public development involved the GPS and risk mitigation spaces. Advantage GPS announced the acquisition of Michigan-based Asset Tracking Technology, a distributor of GPS tracking devices for finance companies, buy-here, ... [Read More]
SEC charges former Honor Finance principals with securitizations fraud
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Oftentimes when a federal regulator charges after a subprime auto finance company, it’s the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or the Federal Trade Commission doing the investigations and handing out enforcement actions. Last week, it was the Securities and Exchange Commission ... [Read More]
RateGenius rolls out new digital auto refinance tool
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
As consumers repair their credit profiles, many individuals are looking to improve the terms of their retail installment contract for their vehicle. RateGenius is looking to help those particular people and other contract holders looking to see if they can ... [Read More]
Startup aimed at connecting independent dealers & finance companies opens crowdfunding campaign
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Automatic is trying to modernize what the fintech startup is calling an “outdated, fragmented independent dealer financing ecosystem.” And it’s leveraging an equity crowdfunding campaign to continue on its path. On Friday, Automatic announced the effort to generate resources for ... [Read More]
Auto defaults rise again in August with evidence pointing to more
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Auto defaults are slowly ticking up again, and the seeds for more might be germinating, too, as shown by the data assembled and shared by Cox Automotive, Equifax, Experian and S&P. [Read More]
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