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
Efforts by Equifax & GM Financial to improve finance knowledge
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
A recent Equifax survey indicated most consumers who participated do not place themselves at the head of the class when it comes to financial literacy. Auto finance companies such as General Motors Financial are putting initiatives in motion to coincide ... [Read More]
PointPredictive enhances DealerTrace to combat fraud
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
PointPredictive recently announced the general availability of an enhanced version of DealerTrace, a comprehensive consortium-based analytic solution designed to provide auto finance companies with a dealer-level, holistic view of fraud and early payment default risk. The firm explained this solution ... [Read More]
6 FTC initiatives meant to eliminate wasteful regulations
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Along with planning a workshop to examine financial issues and scams that can affect military consumers, the Federal Trade Commission said this week it is moving “aggressively” to implement presidential directives aimed at eliminating wasteful, unnecessary regulations and processes. Acting ... [Read More]
5 changes toward the Consumer Financial Opportunity Agency
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Last summer, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, the Texas Republican who also is the U.S. House Financial Services Committee chairman, introduced a plan he described as a way to replace the Dodd-Frank Act and promote economic growth. This spring, the outspoken critic ... [Read More]
Another view of vehicle values & recovery rates
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Cox Automotive chief economist Tom Webb cautioned watchers of the auto ABS market as well as managers who compute severity of loss at finance companies. Webb insisted that softening wholesale values and what vehicles might be fetching at the auction ... [Read More]
How better data can lead to better lending decisions
Mark Gleason, defi SOLUTIONS
Financial technology and lending decisions are built on data. Lenders can buy data in the form of reports, statistics and bits of information about consumers and their buying habits from hundreds of companies and accumulate mountains of their own new ... [Read More]
Few signs industry is backing off record financing pace
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The latest report generated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York declared that 2016 officially represented the year of the highest auto finance originations — at least in the 18-year history of the data officials obtained from Equifax. And ... [Read More]
GWC Warranty introduces improved coverage lookup tool
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
GWC Warranty, a provider of used-vehicle service contracts and related finance and insurance products sold through dealers, recently improved its online coverage lookup tool to better assist drivers in obtaining critical vehicle service contract information. As part of GWC Warranty’s ... [Read More]
AFSA again addresses burden CFPB places on small operations
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
While a former Department of the Treasury official insisted the Dodd-Frank Act resulted in an economy “far stronger and more resilient today than it was preceding the crisis,” American Financial Services Association executive vice president Bill Himpler addressed the Consumer ... [Read More]
Pinpointing dealer role in preventing auto finance fraud
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
As a follow-up to its analysis that stated fraud in auto financing could reach $6 billion this year, PointPredictive released another white paper on Tuesday with suggestions on where that scheme could be nipped before it happens. PointPredictive’s new whitepaper, ... [Read More]
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