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Bain Survey: Few Companies Ready for Sustainability Rules (24%) Building on three-year partnership, Bain invests in OpenAI Deployment Company
Wednesday, May. 13, 2026, 12:13 PM
Bain & Company today announced an investment in the Deployment Company, a new venture launched by OpenAI with 19 global partners. According to a news release, the OpenAI Deployment Company is built to help businesses deploy artificial intelligence across their ... Read More
EY study shows Canadians still cautious about AI but using it more for everyday activities
Monday, May. 11, 2026, 03:00 PM
This artificial intelligence is pretty smart, eh? That sentiment might be held by at least some Canadians who are already embedding AI into everyday decisions, often in ways that extend beyond simple assistance into early autonomy, even while concerns about ... Read More
Carfluent’s new AI tool helps dealerships beat aggregators in searches
Monday, May. 11, 2026, 09:51 AM
A growing percentage of consumers now use artificial intelligence as what marketplace Cars.com describes as a “trusted co-pilot” in their search for a vehicle to purchase. Meanwhile, other studies suggest that dealership websites are not visible to many of those ... Read More
Tiger Okeley describes what it’s like for BHPH dealers during another turbulent year
Tuesday, May. 12, 2026, 01:47 PM
Tiger Okeley is the executive board member of Oak Motors, a buy-here, pay-here dealership that’s been in business for more than 40 years in central Indiana. Having seen boom times, recessions, and more, Okeley shared his insight to help owners ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: Know your Buyer & Grow your Lot
Tuesday, May. 12, 2026, 09:20 AM
In this insightful episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Auto Trader and KBB executives Elizabeth Stegall and David Lumpkin share findings gleaned from Cox Automotive’s unique research into shoppers who buy from Independent Dealers. Learn how shifting buyer expectations connect ... Listen Here
FICO’s Shams Blanc on lenders sharpening underwriting & more
Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2026, 03:54 PM
Fresh off being in Miami as part of the Used Car Industry Summit that Cherokee Media Group hosted this spring, Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, appeared again on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Blanc discussed ... Listen Here

Former Arizona dealer employee arrested on fraud charge

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Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, 03:54 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
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]

DOJ secures 10-year prison sentence for orchestrator of luxury-vehicle Ponzi scheme

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Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, 02:43 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
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]

SCRA violations cost NMAC nearly $3M

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Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, 08:29 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
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]

SNAAC to wind down operations, liquidate portfolio

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Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, 08:51 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
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]

Experian and Oliver Wyman roll out tool for CECL forecasting

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Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, 03:54 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
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]

defi SOLUTIONS, Sagent Auto sign merger agreement

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Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, 06:30 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
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]

S&P Global Ratings explains why risk within prime ABS is intensifying

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Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, 02:36 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
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]

DealerPeak unveils Max Desk for soft credit pulls and more

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Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, 04:06 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
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]

LexisNexis Risk Solutions spots ‘silent subprime consumers’

subprime credit report
Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, 04:03 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
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]

New-model APR sinks to lowest point of year, coinciding with Fed action

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Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, 07:53 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Perhaps it’s just happenstance that Edmunds spotted the average interest rate for new-vehicle financing softening to its lowest level of the year in the same timeframe as the Federal Reserve making its first interest-rate cut in 11 years. Edmunds reported ... [Read More]

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