Coming off of what the president and chief executive officer described as a “transitional year,” Nicholas Financial opened its 2020 fiscal year with positive net income after finishing its 2019 fiscal year with a loss. The publicly-traded specialty consumer finance ... [Read More]

Another fraud incident recently surfaced involving two dealerships with the investigation spreading into two states. The Arizona Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General made an arrest following an investigation that revealed a Nissan dealership employee stole a customer’s identity ... [Read More]

This week, a judge sentenced a Wisconsin man to more than 10 years in prison after the Justice Department secured an indictment earlier this summer in connection with the orchestration of a Ponzi scheme that included the fraudulent financing and ... [Read More]

Repossession of 113 vehicles and violations of vehicle-lease mandates are going to cost Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. (NMAC) nearly $3 million. The Department of Justice recently announced that NMAC has agreed to pay almost $3 million to resolve allegations that ... [Read More]

A little more than three years after announcing an aggressive growth plan based on a strategy to add a significant number of dealership customers throughout the United States, Security National Automotive Acceptance Company (SNAAC) is departing the auto-finance business. A ... [Read More]

While mandated implementation might be delayed, Experian and Oliver Wyman are still looking to help auto finance companies meet the initial set of deadlines for the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s current expected credit loss (CECL) model via a new solution ... [Read More]

At the beginning of last year, loan origination system (LOS) provider defi SOLUTIONS announced it has raised $55 million in a Series C investment from Bain Capital Ventures. Then last September, Fiserv Lending Solutions announced the launch of its new ... [Read More]

Typically, the most risk in auto loan asset-backed securities (ABS) resides in the subprime space stemming from the lower credit tiers connected to that paper. Well, S&P Global Ratings is seeing risk grow within prime ABS, too. Because finance companies are ... [Read More]

With potential buyers walking into the dealerships with smartphones and the ability to find information, DealerPeak’s Desk Max is looking to equip store personnel with a tablet-driven tool to generate vital data stemming from soft credit pulls, potential monthly payment ... [Read More]

As finance companies know, critical data on tax liens and civil judgments is no longer included as part of the standard consumer credit report issued from all three major credit bureaus; a move that became effective last April. LexisNexis Risk ... [Read More]