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Cutting keys & cutting costs during repossessions and recoveries
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:42 PM
Drawing standing-room-only attendance in the second-largest setting at Used Car Week 2025, Ryan Miller led a six-executive panel session that focused on one of the most complex challenges in all of repossessions and recoveries. Now available through this episode of ... Listen Here
Four experts on automotive & the economy
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:39 PM
Used Car Week 2025 again brought together experts who can explain which parts of the economy impact automotive most. This year’s event included views from Laura Wehunt of Black Book, Tim Gill of the American Financial Services Association, T.J. Cox ... Listen Here
Sponsored Episode: Winning Trade-Ins and Trust – Navigating Today’s Affordability Challenges
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 03:15 PM
Affordability challenges are reshaping the automotive landscape—vehicle prices and payments are at all-time highs and negative equity is on the rise. In this episode, Micah Tindor offers a data-driven conversation with real-world strategies around acquisition tactics and long-term profitability to ... Listen Here

ARA & DRN work toward smoothing concerns over LPR

Tuesday, Apr. 1, 2025, 10:57 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
What perhaps could have festered into a messy situation involving organizations that have worked together so closely in the repossession world has smoothed over in recent days. The American Recovery Association used a white paper to explain notable operational and ... [Read More]

DriveTime collaborates with Girl Gang Garage and Maggie’s Place for vehicle donation

Origence
Monday, Mar. 31, 2025, 10:15 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Saturday marked the culmination of the Women for Change initiative — a collaboration involving DriveTime, Bogi’s Girl Gang Garage and Maggie’s Place — designed to empower and uplift women in need. The project peaked with the donation of a fully ... [Read More]

From the editor: Dramatic change in tone at the CFPB

CFPB seeking more data about repossessions & contract modifications
Friday, Mar. 28, 2025, 10:07 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Perhaps the most interesting news release ever distributed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau came into my view on Thursday, courtesy of a LinkedIn post by Hudson Cook partner Eric Johnson. The news release wasn’t about a multi-million dollar penalty ... [Read More]

Tariff implementation eroding consumer confidence & credit predictors

Thursday, Mar. 27, 2025, 11:18 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
A fact sheet posted on the White House website late Wednesday connected with the administration imposing a 25% tariff on imports of automobiles and certain automobile parts contained this bullet point: a 2024 study on the effects of President Trump’s ... [Read More]

Kaplan Group study: Debt collection software market to approach $9B by 2030

Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2025, 02:21 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Experts see that the debt collection industry is undergoing a technology-driven transformation as businesses shift toward automation, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics to improve recovery rates and streamline operations. Reinforcing those assertions, a new Kaplan Group study revealed that the ... [Read More]

Phoenix American Companies appoints new CRO

new hire 2
Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2025, 10:58 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Phoenix American Companies, a provider of vehicle service contracts, GAP, and ancillary F&I products, on Tuesday announced the appointment of Brian Olson as chief revenue officer. With more than 25 years of experience in the F&I and related markets, the ... [Read More]

Launcher builds on 5 partnerships established last year by integrating with Automatic

LCT teams with AKUVO to streamline loan refunds
Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2025, 10:57 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
After forming five partnerships last year, Launcher finalized another one last week. This time, the technology provider specializing in automotive loan originations announced a strategic integration partnership with Automatic, a leading provider of dealership digital automation solutions for the automotive ... [Read More]

Point Predictive spots record auto fraud exposure & climbing early payment default risk

Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2025, 09:53 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Point Predictive on Tuesday released its 2025 Auto Lending Fraud Trends Report, detailing that finance companies face an estimated $9.2 billion in fraud loss exposure for 2025 — the highest ever measured. And another troubling metric — especially for creditors ... [Read More]

AFSA asks CFPB to table proposed auto-loan survey

CFPB files lawsuit against US Auto Sales servicer
Monday, Mar. 24, 2025, 10:36 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
In January — three days before President Trump was inaugurated — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shared a proposal via the Federal Register to launch an auto-loan survey to collect a variety of information from contract holders. Last week, the ... [Read More]

NAF Association collecting nominations for 2 industry awards

Monday, Mar. 24, 2025, 10:35 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The National Automotive Finance Association is still collecting nominations for the two industry awards to be given during the 2025 Non-Prime Auto Financing Conference. The NAF Association is seeking nominations for the Jack Tracey Pinnacle Award as well as a ... [Read More]
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