Connecting auto finance, risk management & interest rates ahead of Fed’s last policy meeting of year
Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, 10:23 AM
COMMENTARY: A dealer's 2026 strategy guide for F&I in the new age of affordability
Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, 09:55 AM
Growing volume of paper booked in Q3 has terms stretching toward 2033
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, 10:58 AM
Cutting keys & cutting costs during repossessions and recoveries
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
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:42 PM
Four experts on automotive & the economy
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
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:39 PM
Sponsored Episode: Winning Trade-Ins and Trust – Navigating Today’s Affordability Challenges
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
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 03:15 PM
Multiple discussions about repossessions & recoveries on deck for Used Car Week
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, 12:54 PM
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
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, 11:48 AM
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
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, 10:48 AM
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]
AutoPayPlus highlights series of technology, compliance & organizational advancements
Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, 11:42 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
AutoPayPlus by US Equity Advantage, an automated financial concierge service, announced that it has achieved a series of technology, compliance, and organizational advancements designed to deliver greater efficiency, accuracy and security for its dealer partners. First, the company said it ... [Read More]
Open Lending unveils ApexOne Auto so lenders can review deeper pool of potential customers
Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, 11:34 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Last week, Open Lending Corp. announced the launch of ApexOne Auto, an advanced decisioning platform that expands the company’s capabilities to serve the full spectrum of auto-finance customers. The provider of automotive lending enablement and risk analytics solutions for financial ... [Read More]
Vitu bookends 2025 with acquisitions; this time of DDI Technology
Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, 09:59 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Vitu began the year by successfully closing its acquisition of the Dealertrack registration and titling businesses from Cox Automotive. And the innovator in vehicle-to-government (V2Gov) technology is rounding out the year with another acquisition. Vitu announced on Friday that it ... [Read More]
LCT’s Refund Control now aligns with new industry standards set by 3 associations
Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, 09:58 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Lender Compliance Technologies (LCT) said Thursday it secured “an important milestone for the industry” in connection with its Refund Control platform. The provider of a tool for managing voluntary protection product (VPP) cancellations and refunds announced that its platform fully ... [Read More]
2025 Repossession Agent of the Year: Phil Hanks of Connect 1 Recovery
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, 10:34 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Phil Hanks spent more than 17 years in corporate positions associated with the recovery industry. Much of that time was with Manheim, but Hanks also held leadership positions with Primeritus Financial Services and MBSi. Then in April 2013, Hanks established ... [Read More]
2025 Loss Mitigation Executive of the Year: Craig Paterson of GM Financial
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, 02:23 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Auto loans and retail installment contracts are often referred to by industry executives as paper. When Craig Paterson began his career in automotive, many of the tasks he had to complete were done on paper, too. Much has changed in ... [Read More]
Lender executives & industry experts distill current status of subprime auto finance
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, 10:48 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Suspicions are intensifying about the current health of auto finance, especially within the subprime space stemming from the bankruptcy filings of Tricolor Holdings and PrimaLend. For example, the first question from an investment analyst during Carvana’s quarterly conference call last ... [Read More]
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