While the cost of new vehicles continues to climb, the newest data from Edmunds indicated finance companies are finding ways to mitigate their risk when booking new-model paper. On Wednesday, Edmunds experts reported the average down payment for new vehicles ... [Read More]

Portfolio has officially acquired National Automotive Experts and NWAN, uniting two leaders in the F&I product provider, administration and reinsurance space and closing an agreement initially announced in March.  Portfolio president and chief executive officer Brent Griggs noted the world ... [Read More]

While the coronavirus pandemic has created plenty of headaches for dealerships, the ramifications appear to be creating at least one opportunity for store F&I departments. Sales of vehicle service contracts post-sale first spiked in March and then again in April ... [Read More]

RISC said it understands the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep the collateral recovery industry from getting back to any kind of normalcy. In light of the challenges that repossession agencies are going through, RISC recently decided to extend its fee ... [Read More]

More reaction rolled in stemming from Monday’s Supreme Court decision involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. While some legal experts are pondering long-term ramifications of the decision, nearly half of the attorneys general in the U.S. celebrated because the Supreme ... [Read More]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau still exists even after a noteworthy Supreme Court decision arrived on Monday involving its director. However, the handwringing about how the agency operates and can wield its regulatory influence over auto finance and other segments ... [Read More]

Even though the coronavirus pandemic appears to pack an economic wallop, new research is showing that the subprime auto-finance market can absorb a punch or two. According to the second annual market study released today by Davis & Gilbert’s Credit ... [Read More]

Moody’s Investors Service still is holding a negative outlook for North American captive finance companies because of the coronavirus pandemic. But in a report shared with SubPrime Auto Finance News on Friday, analysts shared four reasons why they could adjust ... [Read More]

DDI Technology is now more entrenched in the Hoosier State. On Thursday, the electronic lien and title technology firm and subsidiary of IAA announced a partnership with the Indiana Bankers Association (IBA). DDI was selected by IBA as a preferred ... [Read More]

Kroll Bond Rating Agency is seeing some finance companies — especially in non-prime — holding securitized pools of auto paper with contract modification levels as high as 21%. The noteworthy trends came via KBRA’s May auto loan indices when analysts ... [Read More]