This week, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Kathleen Kraninger celebrated her one-year anniversary leading the regulator. Kraninger highlighted through a news release that during her first year she met with more than 800 consumers, consumer groups, state and local government ... [Read More]
Perhaps signaling locations where your collections department needs to tailor its focus, Experian pinpointed the top 10 states with the highest rates of 30-day delinquency after the third quarter. According to Experian’s Q3 2019 State of the Automotive Finance Market ... [Read More]
On Wednesday, four leading executives from EFG Companies made their 2020 predictions and recommendations for the retail automotive and powersports F&I markets. With what they see as potentially another flat year on the horizon, the EFG leaders predicted that the ... [Read More]
The Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) released its 2020 forecast for the automotive asset-backed securities, mentioning how a new participant might generate more activity in this arena. Analysts said in their report shared with SubPrime Auto Finance News this week ... [Read More]
Wendy De La Rosa and Richard Mathera, Common Cents Lab
Recent Federal Reserve data shows that more than 4 million Americans are more than 90 days late on their car loan payments. There are many reasons someone may default on an auto loan: job loss, health emergency or an expensive ... [Read More]
iA Financial Corp., one of Canada’s largest insurance and wealth management companies, secured a larger amount of the dealer warranty business in the United States last week. According to a news release, iA Financial, the holding company of iA Financial ... [Read More]
If auto-finance companies were not already using alternative data to enhance their underwriting efforts, they appear to have gotten the green light this week from five prominent federal regulators. Those five agencies — the Federal Reserve, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ... [Read More]
Reinforcing the appeal of used models highlighted in a recent Ally Financial survey, Experian’s latest data showed used vehicles are commanding a larger share of the U.S. automotive finance market. According to Experian’s Q3 2019 State of the Automotive Finance ... [Read More]
As part of our collection of podcasts originating from Used Car Week 2019, Nick Zulovich caught up with Anne Holtzman and Suzi Straffon from Allied Solutions. The executives from Allied Solutions recapped not only what transpired in the world of ... [Read More]
At least from an interest-rate perspective, new vehicles looked a bit more attractive to buyers in November, even though retail prices for those models continued to climb. Meanwhile, financing for used vehicles stayed on a steady course, according to the ... [Read More]
