Affordability leads latest TransUnion study & AFSA event dialogue
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, 10:25 AM
Santander Q4 survey shows ongoing optimism of middle-income Americans who see value of used cars
Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, 10:24 AM
Challenge Financial Services hires former UACC exec, acquires $21M portfolio
Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, 10:21 AM
The real cost of inaction when it comes to transport fraud
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Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, 03:30 PM
More dialogue about current complexities of fleet management with David Prusinski of Vehicle Management Systems (VMS)
A limited number of qualified maintenance technicians. A robust mix of gasoline-, diesel- and electric-fueled vehicles. There’s no shortage of challenges for fleet managers nowadays. To help wade through the environment with valuable perspectives, David Prusinski, who is CEO of ... Listen Here
Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, 03:30 PM
Lenders, forwarders & agents discuss repo bottlenecks
In another of the Used Car Week 2025 panel discussions focused on repossessions and recoveries, AutoSquared.ai co-founder Bahador Rahimi led a conversation that included lenders, forwarders and agents. The group exchanged ideas about how industry firms can smooth the bottlenecks ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, 07:16 PM
PODCAST: Used Car Week Hall of Famer Becky Igo of Allied Solutions
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, 10:48 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Becky Igo remembers the first few business trips she made going to industry conferences at a time when things like pay phones and fax machines were critical business-development tools. Now more than four decades later, the regional vice president for ... [Read More]
AutoPayPlus highlights series of technology, compliance & organizational advancements
Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, 11:42 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
AutoPayPlus by US Equity Advantage, an automated financial concierge service, announced that it has achieved a series of technology, compliance, and organizational advancements designed to deliver greater efficiency, accuracy and security for its dealer partners. First, the company said it ... [Read More]
Open Lending unveils ApexOne Auto so lenders can review deeper pool of potential customers
Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, 11:34 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Last week, Open Lending Corp. announced the launch of ApexOne Auto, an advanced decisioning platform that expands the company’s capabilities to serve the full spectrum of auto-finance customers. The provider of automotive lending enablement and risk analytics solutions for financial ... [Read More]
Vitu bookends 2025 with acquisitions; this time of DDI Technology
Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, 09:59 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Vitu began the year by successfully closing its acquisition of the Dealertrack registration and titling businesses from Cox Automotive. And the innovator in vehicle-to-government (V2Gov) technology is rounding out the year with another acquisition. Vitu announced on Friday that it ... [Read More]
LCT’s Refund Control now aligns with new industry standards set by 3 associations
Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, 09:58 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Lender Compliance Technologies (LCT) said Thursday it secured “an important milestone for the industry” in connection with its Refund Control platform. The provider of a tool for managing voluntary protection product (VPP) cancellations and refunds announced that its platform fully ... [Read More]
2025 Repossession Agent of the Year: Phil Hanks of Connect 1 Recovery
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, 10:34 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Phil Hanks spent more than 17 years in corporate positions associated with the recovery industry. Much of that time was with Manheim, but Hanks also held leadership positions with Primeritus Financial Services and MBSi. Then in April 2013, Hanks established ... [Read More]
2025 Loss Mitigation Executive of the Year: Craig Paterson of GM Financial
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, 02:23 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Auto loans and retail installment contracts are often referred to by industry executives as paper. When Craig Paterson began his career in automotive, many of the tasks he had to complete were done on paper, too. Much has changed in ... [Read More]
Lender executives & industry experts distill current status of subprime auto finance
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, 10:48 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Suspicions are intensifying about the current health of auto finance, especially within the subprime space stemming from the bankruptcy filings of Tricolor Holdings and PrimaLend. For example, the first question from an investment analyst during Carvana’s quarterly conference call last ... [Read More]
How Protective plans to leverage past F&I acquisitions to make most of upcoming Portfolio addition
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, 10:39 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Rick Kurtz, senior vice president and chief distribution officer for Protective Asset Protection, spent a few minutes with Cherokee Media Group on Thursday after the company entered into an agreement to acquire Portfolio Holding and its subsidiaries from Abry Partners. ... [Read More]
White Label Holding acquires National Auto Lenders
Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, 04:08 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Another auto-finance company specializing in the subprime space now has new ownership. White Label Holding, a U.S.-based financial group specializing in integrated automotive lending solutions, on Monday announced the full acquisition of National Auto Lenders, which is a non-prime auto ... [Read More]
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