AFSA explains 4 top problems associated with credit reporting to House lawmakers, offers 4 possible solutions
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Thursday, Apr. 30, 2026, 10:10 AM
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Monday, Apr. 27, 2026, 10:37 AM
FICO’s Shams Blanc on lenders sharpening underwriting & more
Fresh off being in Miami as part of the Used Car Industry Summit that Cherokee Media Group hosted this spring, Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, appeared again on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Blanc discussed ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2026, 03:54 PM
Byron Oldham of Honest Autos & FIADA
Byron Oldham is president of the family-owned Honest Autos dealership and is president of the board at the Florida Independent Automobile Dealers Association. In this episode, Oldham talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about the upcoming Southeast ... Listen Here
Monday, Apr. 27, 2026, 07:47 PM
Automotive CFO-To-Go Kathi Kruse talks dealership finance, accounting in ‘lightning round’
Kathi Kruse, the Automotive CFO-To-Go who brings her financial expertise — born through years of experience as a dealership chief financial officer — to dealers needing help in that area, is back on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. In this episode, ... Listen Here
Sunday, Apr. 19, 2026, 04:27 AM
This Month's Focus
Artificial Intelligence
Tekion adds another new partner with integration of DAS Technology’s customer experience platform
Friday, May. 1, 2026, 10:12 AM
A single customer file allows dealers to easily integrate AI vendors in DealerBuilt DMS
Friday, May. 1, 2026, 10:09 AM
AI’s potential on display at NADA Show as it expands into more areas of dealership operations
Friday, May. 1, 2026, 09:49 AM
2 elements that help dealers in non-prime financing
Monday, Jul. 27, 2015, 04:20 PM
Nick Zulovich, Editor
Michael Buckingham, senior director of the auto finance practice at J.D. Power, acknowledged dealers and finance companies already know that trying to get a new-vehicle contract completed for a customers with a soft credit profile can be “tricky.” So when ... [Read More]
Appeals court overturns previous decision questioning CFPB constitutionality
Monday, Jul. 27, 2015, 04:16 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
If members of Congress wanted more ammunition for a crusade to eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, perhaps a three-judge panel on the District of Columbia Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals provided just the thing. An opinion released ... [Read More]
Auto loan defaults sink to new low in June
Friday, Jul. 24, 2015, 03:52 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
June’s auto loan metrics bucked the trends seen in other credit markets to register a new historical low, according to the latest S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices. Analysts from S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian noticed the auto loan default ... [Read More]
CFPB fills top 2 posts on acting basis
Friday, Jul. 24, 2015, 03:50 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made temporary adjustments to fill the role of its deputy director who resigned last week, a pair of Texas lawmakers introduced a proposal to eliminate the CFPB altogether. With deputy director Steve Antonakes departing the ... [Read More]
F&I Express unveils tool to watch margins for compliance
Friday, Jul. 24, 2015, 03:46 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
F&I Express recently launched what’s being dubbed CompliPrice, a cloud-based tool aimed to help stores ensure profits on aftermarket insurance products are compliant with dealer and finance companies compliance policies, and potential guidelines from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The ... [Read More]
More evidence of consumer rebound via subprime loans
Wednesday, Jul. 22, 2015, 03:32 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Westlake Financial Services and Equifax now have more data to support their argument that subprime auto financing can benefit individuals with soft credit histories, rather than create a negative situation some regulators and consumer advocates might believe. Equifax recognized Westlake ... [Read More]
The numbers as the CFPB turns 4
Wednesday, Jul. 22, 2015, 03:27 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau celebrated its fourth birthday on Tuesday. Among the individuals on hand to cheer the occasion were the lawmakers who authored the Dodd-Frank Act, which created the CFPB. Instead of just cake and party hats, bureau ... [Read More]
Upcoming free FICO webinar to discuss application fraud
Wednesday, Jul. 22, 2015, 03:19 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
FICO is offering finance companies strategy recommendations for those who fear that they’re reviewing too many applications for fraud, yet still finding fraudsters on the books. FICO also questioned whether finance companies have a clear definition of what is fraud and ... [Read More]
FactorTrust launches alternative data tool specific for auto financing
Tuesday, Jul. 21, 2015, 02:25 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Leveraging the possibilities of alternative credit data to enhance the underwriting process percolated several times during industry events earlier this year. On Tuesday, FactorTrust responded to the inherent need for increased credit opportunities for non-prime consumers by rolling out a new ... [Read More]
SCUSA taps new chairman, fills board
Monday, Jul. 20, 2015, 03:57 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Another executive who spent time in a leadership position at J.P. Morgan Chase now is holding an even higher post at Santander Consumer USA Holdings. Not long after the finance company elevated Jason Kulus to be SCUSA’s chief executive officer, ... [Read More]
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