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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
SPONSORED EPISODE: The Buy Online Shift & What Dealers Need to Know Now
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Cox Automotive’s Jeri Reichel joins us to speak to the evolving Buy Online experience. She shares more about how shopper expectations are changing and what dealers should understand and do as ... Listen Here
The Spark Between EVs & CPO
In light of electric vehicle maker VinFast launching a certified pre-owned program in the U.S., Auto Remarketing senior editor Joe Overby connects with leaders from the EV space to discuss why the segment is a natural fit for CPO and ... Listen Here

COMMENTARY: A dealer’s 2026 strategy guide for F&I in the new age of affordability

Rick Kurtz, Protective Asset Protection
The automotive industry in 2025 was defined not by a single dominant trend, but by a complex interplay of affordability crises, global trade adjustments, and a bifurcated consumer market. For auto dealers, addressing this landscape means accepting that the traditional ... [Read More]

Ascent Dealer Services hires former Protective executive to be VP of acquisition

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Ascent Dealer Services, a provider of F&I performance, training, and profitability solutions, recently named Rob Johnson as its new vice president of acquisition. Johnson possesses more than eight years of specialized experience in the automotive and F&I sector. He began ... [Read More]

Growing volume of paper booked in Q3 has terms stretching toward 2033

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Imagine an excited individual who financed and took delivery of a used vehicle on Labor Day. Perhaps it was a gently used, older car or maybe even a certified pre-owned model. There’s a possibility that contract won’t reach its payoff ... [Read More]

GALR & MVTRAC share important dialogue at Used Car Week

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
One of the purposes of Used Car Week is bringing various industry segments together for constructive conversations. An example of that outcome surfaced when the Georgia Association of Licensed Repossessors (GALR) announced that it had “productive and forward-looking industry dialogue” ... [Read More]

S&P Global Ratings: Extensions exceeding pre-pandemic level

Revisiting topic of partial payments
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Evidently, finance companies are instructing their collections departments to work even harder with customers who are having trouble maintaining their monthly payments. According to S&P Global Ratings’ latest U.S. auto loan asset-backed securities data shared with Cherokee Media Group on ... [Read More]

StoneEagle Q3 data shows steady times in dealer F&I departments

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
StoneEagle on Tuesday highlighted how it was a steady quarter in dealership F&I departments amid some gross-profit turbulence seen in July, August and September. Third-quarter information included in the StoneEagleDATA F&I Benchmark Report showed stable F&I performance across key metrics. ... [Read More]

CFPB unveils ‘humility pledge’ for supervision division

CFPB seeking more data about repossessions & contract modifications
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Perhaps compliance departments at auto lenders and other companies involved in financial services had something extra to be thankful for last week. Just ahead of Thanksgiving, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made significant changes to how its supervision division conducts ... [Read More]

AutoPayPlus welcomes new agency development manager

new hire
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
AutoPayPlus by US Equity Advantage continued its recent string of moves by announcing the appointment of Steven Weir as agency development manager. In this role, the automated financial concierge service said Weir will be responsible for building and supporting strong ... [Read More]

Weltman, Weinberg & Reis adds 5 attorneys to Chicago office, donates to Feeding America network

Another former Manheim Canada exec joins Otolane
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Along with making donations to local food banks and pantries in the Feeding America network, Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., added to its stable of legal professionals at its Chicago office. This month, the firm welcomed five new attorneys: Tresina ... [Read More]

Auto snippets from TransUnion’s October 2025 Credit Industry Snapshot

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Are auto-finance providers taking on more risk or are there simply more consumers who fall into the subprime credit tier? Here some more data to consider. As Cox Automotive’s information showed credit access improved a bit in October, TransUnion’s October ... [Read More]

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