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
RISC acquires RCS to enhance vendor vetting services
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau taking a greater interest in what service providers finance companies are using, Recovery Industry Services Co. (RISC), a provider of collateral recovery training, certification and compliance solutions, recently announced that it has signed a definitive ... [Read More]
4 features of FactorTrust’s improved Triggers solution
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
FactorTrust recently released its enhanced Triggers solution, which provides tools to notify finance companies and other lenders of specific consumer behaviors on an ongoing basis and identifies the right-party contact information for collection and recovery efforts. The company explained that ... [Read More]
How NAF Association embraces ‘tribal culture’
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Mark Floyd is the current and Steve Hall is the immediate past president of the National Automotive Finance Association. In their own ways, both Floyd and Hall conveyed to the attendees of the NAF Association’s 21st annual Non-Prime Auto Financing ... [Read More]
Appeals court senses political tone of CFPB constitutionality rehearing
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Hudson Cook partner Lucy Morris told SubPrime Auto Finance News she wasn’t surprised the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit immediately smelled the political aroma during oral arguments as the 11-member en banc panel assembled for ... [Read More]
9 key points from Fed’s latest meeting minutes
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Comerica Bank chief economist Robert Dye summarized what he called the nine important takeaways from the minutes released last week condensing the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee's latest meeting, where members used the adjective “transitory” to describe first quarter ... [Read More]
Westlake partners with eOriginal to enable eContracting
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Westlake Financial Services this week finalized a partnership with eOriginal in an effort toward what the companies classified as the path to digitally transform the finance companies' dealer management system into an eContracting solution. The move is geared to improve ... [Read More]
Payix names finance & accounting leader
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This week, mobile collections and payments app provider Payix announced that Priscilla Zarate has joined the company’s executive team as its finance & accounting leader. In this role, Zarate will serve as the firm’s controller and lead the financial planning, ... [Read More]
58 percent of voters in 8 key states want CFPB run by commission
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
While the latest U.S. House proposal to modify the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau keeps the agency overseen by a single director, it appears the sentiment of more than just industry supporters within the Capital Beltway is strong for the bureau ... [Read More]
DecisivEdge describes 6 ‘must haves’ for loan origination software
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Not long after launching its lending and leasing as a service (LLaaS) product powered by Oracle, technology services and consulting company DecisivEdge articulated what the firm believes are the six “must haves” when auto finance providers are considering loan origination ... [Read More]
AFG adds 4 credit unions, 1 bank to client stable
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Auto Financial Group (AFG), one of the nation’s leading sources of residual based financing and vehicle remarketing for financial institutions, recently announced first-quarter growth figures, revealing increasing momentum in new customer signings. Since January, AFG reported that it has signed ... [Read More]
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