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Cutting keys & cutting costs during repossessions and recoveries
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:42 PM
Drawing standing-room-only attendance in the second-largest setting at Used Car Week 2025, Ryan Miller led a six-executive panel session that focused on one of the most complex challenges in all of repossessions and recoveries. Now available through this episode of ... Listen Here
Four experts on automotive & the economy
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:39 PM
Used Car Week 2025 again brought together experts who can explain which parts of the economy impact automotive most. This year’s event included views from Laura Wehunt of Black Book, Tim Gill of the American Financial Services Association, T.J. Cox ... Listen Here
Sponsored Episode: Winning Trade-Ins and Trust – Navigating Today’s Affordability Challenges
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 03:15 PM
Affordability challenges are reshaping the automotive landscape—vehicle prices and payments are at all-time highs and negative equity is on the rise. In this episode, Micah Tindor offers a data-driven conversation with real-world strategies around acquisition tactics and long-term profitability to ... Listen Here

New York Fed & LegalShield notice more strain on consumer finances

Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, 10:31 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The more researchers examine the current state of household finances, the more they’re uncovering plenty of negative trends. The two newest developments surfaced this week from The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data and the LegalShield ... [Read More]

Team-first approach cultivated in the Marines propels Messiha to be Loss Mitigation Executive of the Year

Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, 01:39 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
The U.S. Marine Corp. might not be an official training institution for the auto-finance industry. But John Messiha used it nicely to become an executive with Bank of America, Capital One, Goldman Sachs, Uber and Bridgecrest Acceptance. “The first goal ... [Read More]

Agora Data finalizes $12M deal with Road Auto Finance

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Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, 10:39 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Agora Data announced on Tuesday that it has closed a $12 million transaction for Road Auto Finance, an indirect auto finance company. The capital solutions and advanced performance analytics provider for the subprime to non-prime market called the development a ... [Read More]

Five straight months of credit tightening for auto finance stops in September

Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, 10:36 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
While Edmunds detailed the swelling of negative equity, Cox Automotive noticed credit access loosened to close the third quarter. The Dealertrack Credit Availability Index came in at 92.8 in September, representing a 0.4% improvement from August and stopping a streak ... [Read More]

Edmunds: Average negative equity surges in Q3 to all-time high

Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, 10:24 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
In March, Edmunds said “negative equity is rearing its ugly head.” After looking at its third-quarter data that showed average negative equity hitting an all-time high, Edmunds acknowledged on Tuesday that the trend now is “nothing short of alarming.” Edmunds ... [Read More]

3 new executives reinforce management as Veros Credit eyes more market share

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Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, 10:36 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Veros Credit on Monday recapped the addition of several key executives as part of its strategic initiative to expand operations and strengthen its presence across the United States. By leveraging cutting-edge systems and models to enhance the user experience of ... [Read More]

Open Lending partners with Point Predictive to boost underwriting in non-prime space

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Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, 10:35 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Open Lending recently formed a partnership with Point Predictive Designed to bring enhanced speed, security and performance to auto finance companies that want to book near-prime and non-prime paper, the service providers highlighted that the partnership integrates the capabilities of ... [Read More]

Onbe releases survey about refund processes amid CFPB examinations

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Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, 11:11 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
One of the processes to draw ire during examinations in the past year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was refunds associated with voluntary protection products. This week, Onbe published its 2024 Auto Finance Payments Survey, exploring consumers’ refund preferences. ... [Read More]

Automotive Risk Management Partners tries to see potential positives from CARS Rule

Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, 11:00 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Oral arguments in the legal challenge to the Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Rule were set to begin this week in New Orleans. Attorneys for the Federal Trade Commission, the National Automobile Dealers Association and the Texas Automobile Dealers Association ... [Read More]

Agora Data reveals 5 members of new financial institutions group

Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, 10:59 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Agora Data on Tuesday announced the formation of its new financial institutions group, which is tailored to serve finance companies that specialize in addressing the needs of the subprime to non-prime market. Agora Data said the division supports independent consumer ... [Read More]
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