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
SPONSORED EPISODE: Allied Solutions explains why origination is episodic, but servicing is continuous
John Elias, sales specialist in auto finance business development for Allied Solutions, is back as the guest for another sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Elias explains why current market conditions, affordability pressures and changing vehicle values are combining ... Listen Here
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
Interest rate rise in December appears likely
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
With the Federal Reserve again passing on the chance to move interest rates higher this month, S&P Global Ratings is expecting the Federal Open Market Committee to tick the target range for the federal funds rate up by 25 basis ... [Read More]
TD Auto Finance’s top exec among AFSA award winners
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Andrew Stuart, president and chief executive officer of TD Auto Finance, was among three recipients of a 2017 American Financial Services Association Distinguished Service Award (DSA) during AFSA’s 101st annual meeting. The other two executives given the association’s highest honor ... [Read More]
PointPredictive hosts roundtable to curtail auto-finance fraud
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The fight against fraud in auto finance continued last week. PointPredictive held its second Auto Lending Fraud Roundtable last week in Dallas with finance companies representing 48 percent of total automotive originations in the U.S. They met to further collaborate ... [Read More]
Trump’s signature nullifies CFPB arbitration rule
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
President Trump followed through this week by signing H.J. Res. 111, which nullifies the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule prohibiting the use of a pre-dispute arbitration agreement to prevent a consumer from filing or participating in certain class action suits. ... [Read More]
Black Book releases economic scenario-based residuals data tool
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Black Book rolled out a new solution on Wednesday meant to mitigate the stress — perceived and actual — that lease providers might have about residual values. Black Book release its new economic scenario-based residuals that’s now available to finance ... [Read More]
CFPB’s 7 principles for consumer-authorized financial data sharing and aggregation
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently offered its assessment regarding a potential information path auto finance company collectors and recovery professionals might use during the skip-tracing process to mitigate delinquencies and potential charge-offs. The CFPB outlined seven principles for when ... [Read More]
GWC Warranty promotes manager to VP post
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
GWC Warranty, a provider of used-vehicle service contracts and related F&I products sold through dealers, recently promoted Cynthia Bodden to the position of area vice president of sales for the company’s Mid-Atlantic region. In her role, the company highlighted that ... [Read More]
Sword Apak elevates exec to global sales manager
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Sword Apak, which provides financial systems to the global asset finance and banking sectors, recently appointed Kris Turner to head up its expanding global sales efforts, where momentum has seen the company’s interest expand across the United States, Europe and ... [Read More]
Nearly 60 percent of GM Financial’s Q3 originations fell within prime
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
In the words of General Motors Financial president and chief executive officer Dan Berce, the paper the captive is adding “continues to skew to more prime originations.” Berce made his latest proclamation when GM Financial shared its third-quarter results, which ... [Read More]
CPS on originations pace to run ‘very stable company’
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Some finance companies might see success as the more originations, the better. That’s not quite the case at Consumer Portfolio Services as a strategy chairman and chief executive officer Brad Bradley thought would be successful during the worst part of ... [Read More]
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