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
Clarity Services to bolster solution for auto space
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Clarity Services is also part of the parade of data and analysis providers rolling out solutions developed specifically for the auto finance industry. Through its research, Clarity highlighted that it gained “tremendous” insight into non-prime consumer behavior and how finance ... [Read More]
Equifax & LexisNexis collaborate on auto-specific scoring tool
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Equifax spent more than two years working on a solution sought by the auto finance industry; a tool one of the lead managers in development told SubPrime Auto Finance News is the answer to several requests ... [Read More]
Enterprise Car Sales aligns with Navy Federal Credit Union
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Enterprise Car Sales is now a preferred used-vehicle provider for Navy Federal Credit Union. As part of the agreement, Enterprise Car Sales and Navy Federal said they will periodically team up to offer promotions catered to Navy Federal members. In ... [Read More]
Ally unveils eContracting on Dealertrack platform
Auto Remarketing Staff
In an effort to continue to advance the adoption of digital technologies among automotive finance companies and dealers, Dealertrack recently announced that Ally Financial is now broadly available for eContracting through the Dealertrack platform. Dealers in 42 states currently have ... [Read More]
Why Shift jumped into auto finance
Joe Overby, Staff Writer
The concept of starting an in-house auto finance company in 2016 could be viewed as a curious one. There's the current auto lending regulatory landscape, plus the echoes of the late 2000s auto finance hurdles. But consider, for a moment, ... [Read More]
2016 depreciation forecast has level hitting 15%
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Overall vehicle depreciation for 2- to 6-year old vehicles is expected to reach 15 percent this year, representing an increase from the level of 13.2 percent experienced in 2015. That prediction arrived on Wednesday as Black Book and Fitch Ratings ... [Read More]
Former top CFPB official joins FactorTrust board
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
FactorTrust recently added a former top official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to its board of directors Lending her expertise to the organization’s audit and risk committee is industry veteran Marla Blow, who now is founder and chief executive ... [Read More]
Ally chairman ‘frustrated with market perception’
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
While currently holding the top market share position in retail auto financing, Ally Financial said late on Monday that it will appoint a new independent director to its board of directors in a strongly worded announcement where the chairman described ... [Read More]
21.7% of all auto loans fell into subprime
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
According to the February Equifax National Consumer Credit Trends Report, 2015 marked another strong year for the auto loan market as originations increased year-over-year, while the mix of loans across the entire credit spectrum held for the fourth year in ... [Read More]
Equifax cautious about overacting to Fitch ABS report
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
When Fitch Ratings reported recently that U.S. subprime auto ABS delinquencies ballooned to levels not seen in almost 20 years, the development sparked plenty of industry reaction. To clarify whether or not this market segment is in a profound tailspin, ... [Read More]
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