Connecting auto finance, risk management & interest rates ahead of Fed’s last policy meeting of year
Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, 10:23 AM
COMMENTARY: A dealer's 2026 strategy guide for F&I in the new age of affordability
Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, 09:55 AM
Growing volume of paper booked in Q3 has terms stretching toward 2033
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, 10:58 AM
Cutting keys & cutting costs during repossessions and recoveries
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
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:42 PM
Four experts on automotive & the economy
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
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:39 PM
Sponsored Episode: Winning Trade-Ins and Trust – Navigating Today’s Affordability Challenges
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
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 03:15 PM
SCM hires Van Scoyoc after 9 years with MBSi
Tuesday, Jul. 30, 2024, 11:37 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Secure Collateral Management (SCM) hired a new vice president of business development this week, welcoming a veteran executive who served in a similar capacity within the skip-tracing and repossession management solutions industry. Joining SCM’s executive team is Sam Van Scoyoc, ... [Read More]
NY Fed spots spike in auto finance rejections
Monday, Jul. 29, 2024, 11:40 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
It’s the heat of summer nationwide, but perhaps you could make the argument that things are frozen when considering auto financing and interest rates. Evidence of how frosty things might be within auto financing surfaced from the most recent findings ... [Read More]
Former iA American CRO joins RoadVantage as president
Friday, Jul. 26, 2024, 10:24 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
RoadVantage modified its leadership team in multiple ways this week, welcoming John Lutman as president of the F&I company, which offers a full portfolio of vehicle service contracts and ancillary products through certified agents. With Lutman coming aboard, RoadVantage slid ... [Read More]
AutoPayPlus sees client demand necessitate 30% growth in workforce
Friday, Jul. 26, 2024, 10:23 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
AutoPayPlus has good reasons to be in a celebratory mood this summer. The payment processing company recently hosted an employee gathering because AutoPayPlus’ workforce has grown by 30% year-over-year, sparked in part because of “innovative business process enhancements, increasing customer ... [Read More]
CFPB circular focuses on whistleblowing guidelines for financial institutions
Thursday, Jul. 25, 2024, 10:39 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is blowing a whistle, so to speak, about whistleblowing. On Wednesday, the bureau issued a circular to law enforcement agencies and regulators explaining how companies may be breaking the law by requiring employees to ... [Read More]
Loanbridge.AI & AutoSquared.AI partner to speed up repossessions & trim impound fees
Wednesday, Jul. 24, 2024, 11:35 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
With Cox Automotive chief economist Jonathan Smoke making note of them this week, vehicle repossessions might be an even higher priority for finance companies nowadays. To help with the situation, Loanbridge.AI and AutoSquared.AI reiterated their partnership is aimed to improve ... [Read More]
Cox Automotive: Average used APR up 80 basis points so far in July
Wednesday, Jul. 24, 2024, 11:33 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Cox Automotive chief economist Jonathan Smoke squeezed in an online video update about auto financing while also being a keynote presenter in San Antonio this week for the Texas Independent Automobile Dealers Association’s annual convention. Citing data collected via Dealertrack, ... [Read More]
Glenview Finance rolls out eContracting platform
Tuesday, Jul. 23, 2024, 11:30 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Glenview Finance’s Credit Builder subprime financing platform recently debuted its new eContracting system. The company said it’s a comprehensive solution that can have deals funded in less than an hour. Glenview Finance sees this new system as dramatically improving the ... [Read More]
Finance companies facing ‘tough’ credit conditions, too
Monday, Jul. 22, 2024, 12:03 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Dealertrack regularly watches what conditions are like for consumers to obtain auto financing; a landscape that’s been tightening in recent months.
What about the credit environment for finance companies to get the resources they need to book originations? Especially in the non-prime and subprime spaces?
While perhaps an interest rate reprieve is arriving sometime this year, Kyle Birch, who is president of North America operations at GM Financial, described the rough sledding the industry is experiencing ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Latest views on fraud & ransomware with Point Predictive’s Frank McKenna
Friday, Jul. 19, 2024, 10:17 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Point Predictive’s Frank McKenna returned for another episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast for a discussion about what’s happening on the fraud front. McKenna recapped his keynote appearance at this year’s Non-Prime Auto Financing Conference hosted by the NAF Association ... [Read More]
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