AFSA & NIADA welcome halt of discretionary publication of complaint narratives & visualizations by CFPB
Monday, Aug. 17, 2026, 10:34 AM
Edmunds on depth of ‘The Vanishing Affordable Used Car’
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, 10:17 AM
PODCAST: Additional insight into FTC’s move involving disparate impact from Hudson Cook
Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, 09:25 AM
Additional insight into FTC’s move involving disparate impact from Hudson Cook
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced it will not pursue claims based on disparate-impact or “unfair discrimination” theories. In this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Hudson Cook partners Erica Kramer and Rob Tilley offered some historical perspectives and a ... Listen Here
Deeper dive into rising LTVs with TransUnion’s Satyan Merchant
One of the notable findings from TransUnion’s Q2 2026 Credit Industry Insights Report (CIIR) was how much loan-to-value ratios have changed in the past five years. Satyan Merchant, one of this year’s Automotive Intelligence Award recipients and senior vice president ... Listen Here
PayNearMe chief product officer John Minor on intersection of payments & technology
PayNearMe recently shared new search, explaining that hidden costs sustained by auto lenders can show up as failed payments, borrower support calls, late payments, collections follow-up, reconciliation work and manual recovery effort. PayNearMe chief product officer John Minor elaborated about ... Listen Here
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]
October data from Cox Automotive & VantageScore shows expanded credit access but growing delinquency
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
You can make your own judgements about the state of the credit market based on October data from Cox Automotive and VantageScore. In October, Cox Automotive reported, the Dealertrack Credit Availability Index resumed its upward trend of improved credit access ... [Read More]
InterVest to acquire Flagship Credit Acceptance with Landy set to be CEO
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The next chapter in Jim Landy’s career in auto finance will arrive through another acquisition involving a lender and an investment firm. Last week, Flagship Credit Acceptance announced that affiliates of InterVest Capital Partners, a New York-based specialty finance investment ... [Read More]
PAR hires Dave Baker as vice president
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
OPENLANE subsidiary PAR has a new vice president — someone familiar to the repossession and recovery industries. Coming aboard with three decades of experience spanning corporate operations, law enforcement, and compliance management is Dave Baker, who will serve as the ... [Read More]
Equifax launches new anti-money laundering solutions to help banks, credit unions & financial services companies
Nick Zulovich
Equifax doesn’t want financial services firms and related industries to land in trouble for not meeting anti-money laundering (AML) mandates. So on Friday, Equifax introduced new AML compliance solutions designed to ease the burden of regulatory compliance by flagging potential ... [Read More]
TransUnion trying to clean up credit washing with new fraud detection solution
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
TransUnion is trying to help the financial services industry clean up the proliferation of credit washing that’s impacting auto finance and beyond. To combat credit washing — the practice of removing legitimate, accurate and non-obsolete credit data from credit profiles ... [Read More]
Credit One Bank survey asks, ‘Would you date someone with bad credit?’
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Being in the subprime credit tier not only can make it more difficult to secure auto financing, but it might make it more challenging to have a personal relationship, too. In a new nationwide survey of 1,000 young adults, Credit ... [Read More]
Multiple discussions about repossessions & recoveries on deck for Used Car Week
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Repossessions and recoveries will be one of the main topics covered during Used Car Week, which begins on Monday at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas. In fact, the first session of the entire event is a discussion with ... [Read More]
Experian launches new tool to combine credit, cash flow & alternative data into single score
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This week, Experian rolled out what the company said is the most advanced credit decisioning model it has ever released, marking a “positive milestone in Experian’s mission to help increase fair access to credit.” The company highlighted the Experian Credit ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Used Car Week Hall of Famer Becky Igo of Allied Solutions
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Becky Igo remembers the first few business trips she made going to industry conferences at a time when things like pay phones and fax machines were critical business-development tools. Now more than four decades later, the regional vice president for ... [Read More]
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