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SPONSORED EPISODE: Rethinking vehicle-protection plans for today’s wide inventory mix with GWC Warranty
Used-car inventory on dealer lots nowadays can range from older, higher-mileage vehicles to EVs, lifted trucks, and modified vehicles. The result is dealers are also having to change the vehicle-protection conversations with customers. In this special sponsored episode of the ... Listen Here
Recapping credit scores & other trends in auto finance with Shams Blanc of FICO
Shams Blanc, head of auto scores at FICO, made another appearance on the Auto Remarketing Podcast to elaborate more about the fall edition of the FICO Score Credit Insights report. Along with recapping what’s going on in auto finance, Blanc ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: Greenville Auto Auction Celebrates 16 Years—A look back and a look ahead
On this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Bill Zadeits visits with Billy Willis and Kevin Stallings of Greenville Auto Auction. The auction celebrates 16 years in early September, and the guys talk about the history of the sale, ... Listen Here
3 suggestions for spotting & preventing fraud
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Equifax auto finance leader Lou Loquasto insisted every credit provider and buyer of vehicle installment contracts has a story about how deliveries might have been completed because of some kind of fraud. Loquasto pointed out that sometimes it’s a “rogue” ... [Read More]
SCUSA settlements with Delaware and Massachusetts total $25.9M
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
For the second time in roughly a week, details became public involving Santander Consumer USA and regulatory enforcers. On Wednesday, SCUSA reached settlements totaling $25.9 million with the attorneys general of Delaware and Massachusetts for what state officials said was ... [Read More]
Executive personnel moves by NextGear, Westlake & Spireon
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This week, NextGear Capital, Westlake Financial Services and Spireon all bolstered their executive teams to enhance their respective finance-oriented operations. To support future growth in the inventory-financing sector, NextGear Capital announced Lisa Mackie will fill its newly created vice president ... [Read More]
Industry notes: MUSA Auto Finance gains $175M in funding
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
MUSA Auto Finance recently entered into a $125 million warehouse facility with Goldman Sachs and, additionally, secured a capital investment of up to $50 million from Crestline Investors. Company management highlighted the capital investment, along with the warehouse facility, will ... [Read More]
Moody’s sees consumers on ‘trade-in treadmill’
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
In a new report released on Monday, Moody’s Investors Service explained what likely might be happening in the war rooms at auto finance companies nowadays. Financing providers are increasingly faced with the choice of taking on greater risk by rolling ... [Read More]
Top 20 finance companies by market share in Q4
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Shared exclusively for SubPrime Auto Finance News, Experian Automotive determined the top 20 market holders of what analysts classify as finance companies — operations that do not hold consumer deposits and often specialize in originating subprime paper. Experian Automotive compiled ... [Read More]
Former Ally exec joins RoadVantage as regional VP
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
F&I program provider RoadVantage recently announced industry veteran Aaron Riddle joined its sales team as a regional vice president. Riddle comes to RoadVantage with more than 25 years of experience in F&I, most recently with Ally Financial where he served ... [Read More]
Impact of CFPB’s suit against processor being dismissed
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Perhaps it wasn’t an upset to the level that might have impacted your bracket predicting winners of this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament. But the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota dismissing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s ... [Read More]
Fed tells SCUSA to shore up compliance management
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
According to documents filed on Thursday with the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Santander Consumer USA and its parent's subsidiaries entered into a written agreement on Tuesday with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Under the terms of ... [Read More]
CFPB hands $3M fine to Experian over credit scores
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
On Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action against Experian and its subsidiaries for what regulators said was “deceiving” consumers about the use of credit scores it sold to consumers. The CFPB said Experian claimed the credit scores ... [Read More]
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