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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
Sponsored Episode: Winning Talent Strategies for Car Dealerships – with CDK & Industry Leaders
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, 10:00 AM
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, host Bruce Johnson from CDK sits down with Tyler Jones, President of EV Auto, and Joe Brown, CMO at Frank Leta, to explore proven strategies for attracting and retaining top talent ... Listen Here
Dissecting evolving credit scores with Shams Blanc of FICO
Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, 03:34 PM
As much as auto-finance underwriting has become sophisticated, a potential starting point to determine if the applicant will be offered an installment contract is the credit score. Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, described the ... Listen Here

LegalShield Consumer Stress Legal Index hits highest point in more than 5 years

Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025, 11:30 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Almost 400,000 individuals have already filed for bankruptcy during the first three quarters of this year. And the newest LegalShield Consumer Stress Legal Index (CSLI) showed that trajectory might continue for the remainder of 2025 and beyond. Consumer legal stress ... [Read More]

Why experts are closely watching lower-income consumers in today’s economy

Revisiting topic of partial payments
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, 10:32 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Experts are closely monitoring what’s happening with lower-income consumers, which are often served by subprime auto finance companies. New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia as well as Fitch Ratings’ expectations about asset-backed securities are two examples of ... [Read More]

Credit Acceptance shares another unscheduled update to address ‘select inquiries’

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Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, 11:50 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
For the second time in a little more than a month, Credit Acceptance filed a form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission to respond to “select inquiries” that the subprime auto finance companies has received through Monday. The one ... [Read More]

Vervent reiterates that it’s servicing Tricolor loans

Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, 10:15 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Social media memes and motivational merchandise are everywhere nowadays in business, sports and beyond with the simple phrase: Do your job. Vervent reiterated this week that the payment servicing company is doing that as it’s been roughly three weeks after ... [Read More]

REPAY & Emotive partner for improved automotive loan payment acceptance & management

Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, 10:15 AM
Nick Zulovich
With collecting payments in the headlines nowadays, REPAY announced a new integration with Emotive Software this week. The companies highlighted auto finance companies can now take advantage of the combined functionality of REPAY’s convenient, automation-enabling payment technology and Emotive’s comprehensive ... [Read More]

TransUnion: ‘Credit washing is a silent disruptor’

Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, 11:18 AM
Nick Zulovich
Washing your car, your dishes, even yourself, seems like a positive and prudent experience. However, credit washing — especially in auto finance — is making quite a mess for lenders, according to new analysis from TransUnion on Thursday. TransUnion said ... [Read More]

Sixth Street to acquire Global Lending Services

Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, 04:15 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Evidently the investment world isn’t completely sour on subprime auto financing despite what’s transpired in the industry segment recently. On Wednesday afternoon, Global Lending Services (GLS) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Sixth Street, ... [Read More]

DRN, MVTRAC & SCM make multiple moves to improve positions with lenders & repo agents

Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, 03:15 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
DRN, MVTRAC and Secure Collateral Management (SCM) made multiple moves recently to enhance their services to auto-finance companies and their relationships with repossession agents. First, DRN and Loanbridge formed a partnership, as Loanbridge data is now integrated into DRN’s monitoring, ... [Read More]

Agora Data and DealerCenter to deploy nationwide integration

Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, 12:07 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
On Tuesday, Agora Data teamed up with DealerCenter to form a strategic partnership designed to empower dealers with enhanced tools and resources to obtain capital, streamline operations, and grow their businesses. According to a news release, more than 20,000 dealers ... [Read More]

Edmunds spots 3 new records connected to negative equity in Q3

Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, 12:06 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The newest auto-finance data Edmunds released on Wednesday focused specifically on new-vehicle purchases and excluded used. But it still showed the conundrum lenders are facing nowadays associated with average negative equity, which climbed to an all-time high in the third ... [Read More]
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