Along with describing how much millennials are fueling the ongoing auto finance resurgence, TransUnion’s latest report showed just a marginal uptick in subprime delinquency rates. TransUnion pegged the year-over-year subprime delinquency movement in the fourth quarter going from 5.72 percent ... [Read More]

DriverUp launched its new program this week that company officials are calling an “industry first” marketplace to give accredited investors an opportunity to enter the auto finance industry directly and provide dealers with an expedited, streamlined credit process.  DriverUp is ... [Read More]

Automotive Finance Corp. promoted Johnny Shroyer to be vice president of operations for the floor plan company’s West division. AFC indicated Shroyer will report directly to Joe Keadle, senior vice president of operations. Shroyer, who joined AFC in 2010 as ... [Read More]

When Consumer Portfolio Services reported a year-end earnings per share increase of more than 35 percent, chairman and chief executive officer Brad Bradley not only highlighted that performance, but also how the company is preparing to answer questions from the ... [Read More]

A Reuters report posted late last week indicated OneMain Financial might be sold to a subprime finance company that currently does not operate in the auto space. The report citing anonymous sources said Citigroup is in “advanced talks” to sell ... [Read More]

Metrolina Credit Co., which specializes in subprime auto financing, recently opened its first branch outside of North Carolina. The newest addition to the company’s branch network of four full-service operations is located in Greenville, S.C.  The footprint growth also marks ... [Read More]

Eight dealer, financial services and pro-business organizations delivered another strong message to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to address the bias and error found in the method the CFPB uses to determine whether unintentional disparate impact exists in an indirect ... [Read More]

On the heels of FICO renewing an agreement with TransUnion, the predictive analytics and decision management software company announced this week that FICO Score 9 is available now at Experian for U.S. credit grantors to use for testing and validation. ... [Read More]

The Association of Finance & Insurance Professionals (AFIP) announced that Ryan Cole, a senior in the Automotive Marketing and Management program at Northwood University in Midland, Mich., was named the Jakob Murray Lange Memorial Scholarship winner for 2015. Officials indicated ... [Read More]

Experian Automotive found that the total outstanding balance on open automotive loans hit an all-time high during the fourth quarter, but subprime contracts constituted a smaller part of the figure. That all-time high figure climbed to $886 billion. But according ... [Read More]