StoneEagle spots new highs in dealer F&I average gross profit, income halfway through 2026
Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, 10:21 AM
Wise F&I regional VP chosen as 2026 NAMAD Woman of the Year
Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, 10:42 AM
FTC issues consumer alert over phantom dealerships that experts have seen for more than a year
Wednesday, Sep. 2, 2026, 09:55 AM
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
Former AutoNation & TrueCar exec joins CU Direct
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This week, CU Direct appointed former AutoNation and TrueCar executive Ron Frey to serve as the company's chief strategy officer for automotive solutions. Frey begins his new position this month. Frey has spent 30 years serving the automotive and credit ... [Read More]
CEDAR and defi SOLUTIONS align for document delivery solution
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Especially in subprime auto financing, delivering documents such as adverse action notices often is a regular part of doing business for finance companies. To help with that mandated activity, CEDAR Document Technologies (CEDAR) — an online auto finance mobile loan ... [Read More]
NADA chair asks 4 questions about policies impacting financing & more
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
National Automobile Dealers Association chairman Jeff Carlson went back to the media this week in an effort to sound another warning to Washington, D.C., about implementing policies that would inadvertently make buying, financing, trading-in, and servicing vehicles harder and more ... [Read More]
Wolters Kluwer finalizes indirect loan origination solutions sale to Reynolds
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This week, Wolters Kluwer Governance, Risk & Compliance completed divestment of its indirect loan origination solutions, including the AppOne platform, to Reynolds and Reynolds. The development finalizes an agreement officials said included €32 million in cash through a deal initially ... [Read More]
5 critical data points Equifax TradeSight now can provide
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Before arriving at Equifax, both Lou Loquasto and Craig Sims spent time in the industry trenches with auto finance companies, competing against other providers for applications and contracts generated at dealerships. When Loquasto and Sims offered the industry media a ... [Read More]
White Clarke Group reveals ‘significant’ equity investment & new CEO
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Along with adjustments of its top management, White Clarke Group announced on Tuesday that Five Arrows Principal Investments — the corporate private equity business of Rothschild & Co. — made what is being described as a “significant equity investment” in ... [Read More]
Compliance diary post No. 2: Green check marks look so pretty
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
The green check mark I received through the online testing platform of the National Automotive Finance Association’s Consumer Credit Compliance Certification Program sure did look pretty this past weekend. Instructors Patty Covington and Eric Johnson closed the Module 1 training ... [Read More]
Auto finance growth at 3.5% through first half of year
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
When Equifax looked at its most recent auto finance data, analysts considered the trend that finance companies might be tightening their underwriting a bit. Still based on the August Equifax National Consumer Credit Trends Report, analysts noticed what they called ... [Read More]
FTC charges 9 Los Angeles stores with yo-yo financing & payment packing
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Two noncompliant practices consumer advocates often cite to criticize how financing happens at dealerships — yo-yo financing and payment packing — appeared in the rundown of charges made by the Federal Trade Commission against nine Los Angeles-area dealerships and their ... [Read More]
XpressCredit’s BookOut tool now integrated with NADA UCG values
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
XpressCredit — a provider of a web-based, indirect lending platform for independent dealerships —recently entered into an agreement with NADA Used Car Guide to accelerate the used vehicle sale and loan approval process. Executives explained the integration of NADA Used ... [Read More]
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