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
SPONSORED EPISODE: Allied Solutions explains why origination is episodic, but servicing is continuous
John Elias, sales specialist in auto finance business development for Allied Solutions, is back as the guest for another sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Elias explains why current market conditions, affordability pressures and changing vehicle values are combining ... Listen Here
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
Fitch Cautions Lenders About Used Supply Pressuring ABS Performance
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Fitch Ratings projected that increased supplies of off-lease vehicles coupled with rising inventories and new-vehicle production could hurt the wholesale market and auto ABS performance metrics over the long term. Citing data from Ward's Automotive, Fitch indicated that days' supply ... [Read More]
Zurich Joins Forces with Hudson Cook to Develop Guidance & Tools for Compliant Lending
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Amid stepped up federal regulatory enforcement against alleged discriminatory and deceptive lending practices, Zurich North America prepared a package of initiatives to assist dealers in managing their entire credit origination processes. Zurich highlighted these initiatives are designed to assist dealerships ... [Read More]
Credit Acceptance Sees Originations, Dealer Network, Net Income All Rise in 2013
Nick Zulovich, Editor
As the finance company closed the year with a 16.2-percent jump in active dealers, Credit Acceptance Corp. watched its unit and dollar volumes rise by double figures during the fourth quarter as well, to leave the operation with a healthy ... [Read More]
Former Top CFPB Official Hackett to Join Hudson Cook
Nick Zulovich, Editor
At last year's National Automotive Finance Association Non-Prime Auto Financing Conference keynote session, Hudson Cook chairman Tom Hudson broke the ice by stating he could validate how great of a relationship he had with Rick Hackett, who at the time ... [Read More]
Exeter Details $650 Million Securitization
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Earlier this week, Exeter Finance Corp. announced that EFCAR, LLC, a special purpose Delaware limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary, priced $650 million in aggregate principal amount Series 2014-1 automobile receivable backed notes, which will be issued in four ... [Read More]
Ford Credit’s Falotico Named Chair of AFSA Vehicle Finance Division
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The American Financial Services Association installed Joy Falotico, executive vice president, marketing, sales and the Americas at Ford Motor Credit, as chair of AFSA's Vehicle Finance Division Board, succeeding Andrew Stuart of VW Credit. In this role, AFSA highlighted Falotico ... [Read More]
RouteOne Rolls out eContracting ‘Shortcut’ for Finance Sources
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Earlier this week, RouteOne highlighted it will offer its finance source customers what the company is calling a "shortcut" that can allow them to quickly and easily support the RouteOne eContracting process without the typical technology investment. The company explained ... [Read More]
NextGear Capital Picks Violin Flash Memory Arrays to Improve Dealer Services
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
In an effort to help used-car managers complete the floor-planning process as quickly as possible, NextGear Capital recently tapped Violin Memory, a provider of persistent memory-based storage solutions, to accelerate the delivery of key services to the company's customer base ... [Read More]
Santander Consumer USA Outlines IPO Details
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Last week during the midst of the American Financial Services Association's Vehicle Finance Conference, Santander Consumer USA announced the pricing of its initial public offering. The company is selling 74,991,470 shares of common stock at a price of $24 per ... [Read More]
SFG Finance Watches Year-Over-Year Growth Hit 30 Percent
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Auto finance receivables purchaser SFG Finance highlighted this week that its portfolio grew 30 percent over the last year. SFG Finance indicated the majority of this increase came from the company's subprime flow program — an initiative in which independent, ... [Read More]
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