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]

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]

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 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]

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]

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 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’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]

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]

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]