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SPONSORED EPISODE: Five questions to ask before choosing a transportation partner
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, 09:15 PM
This sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast features two experts from Central Dispatch who offer valuable guidance for choosing a transportation partner. Shanna Wise, who oversees business strategy execution, and Blake Bentley, who leads enterprise client account success, take ... Listen Here
Inside Auto Auction M&A with Mach10 CEO George Pero
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, 02:01 PM
The auto auction industry has seen a spike in M&A over the last three years, similar to the consolidation in auto retail that has been going on much longer. And our guest today has experience with both. George Pero is ... Listen Here
Insight into Q3 Wolters Kluwer Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index
Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, 04:17 PM
While the year-over-year figure reflects broader market volatility, Matthew Babcock, who oversees digital lending product strategy for Wolters Kluwer, explained the strong quarter-over-quarter increase of the Q3 Wolters Kluwer Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index signals market re-engagement. Babcock elaborated about ... Listen Here

Subprime softens even more in new-car world

Monday, May. 8, 2023, 04:59 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Dealerships and auto finance companies already were not completing many deliveries and installment contracts for new vehicles with consumers who fell into the subprime and deep subprime credit tiers. Now following the significant jump in interest rates, Cox Automotive pinpointed ... [Read More]

Sound Credit Union now leverages Open Lending to book nearly $3M in paper monthly

Monday, May. 8, 2023, 11:28 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Last week, Open Lending Corp. released the results of a case study that shows how Sound Credit Union grew its direct and indirect automotive finance volume and yield with Lenders Protection. Officials said Sound Credit Union implemented Lenders Protection in ... [Read More]

KBRA promotes 2 executives within structured finance business

Monday, May. 8, 2023, 11:27 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
KBRA announced multiple personnel moves on Monday. The ratings agency and observer of the securitizations market for automotive and other industry segments said Rosemary Kelley has been named head of structured finance business development. In this newly created role, the ... [Read More]

FTC goes to Congress seeking additional $160M in annual funding

FTC seeks additional annual funding for employees & IT resources
Thursday, May. 4, 2023, 04:01 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wants a larger operating budget and more personnel, and chair Lina Khan made her case last week during a hearing hosted by the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government that’s part of U.S. House ... [Read More]

Gauging auto-finance & consumer impact after Fed’s 10th straight interest rate rise

Thursday, May. 4, 2023, 12:03 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
From buying cars to happy hour drinks, inflation, interest rates and a turbulent economy are continuing to leave negative ramifications. And the Federal Reserve just pushed interest rates up another 25 basis points on Wednesday. “All bets are off if ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Safety advice not just for repossession agents

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Wednesday, May. 3, 2023, 11:24 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Todd Case shared some prudent advice during this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast about being aware of your surroundings that can help not only fellow repossession agents during assignments, but anyone who leaves home. Case spent more than a ... [Read More]

Despite robust Q1 consumer spending fuel by auto, 3 in 10 consumers feel credit insecure

Revisiting topic of partial payments
Monday, May. 1, 2023, 11:19 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Comerica Bank pointed out that first-quarter consumer spending — which accounts for two-thirds of the U.S. economy — generated its most robust gain since the second quarter of 2021. However, more than three in 10 consumers are experiencing credit insecurity, ... [Read More]

Smoke compiles playlist as Fed weighs another rate hike

Friday, Apr. 28, 2023, 10:49 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Cox Automotive chief economist Jonathan Smoke is not only passionate about the financials that make the automotive industry and the economy function. He’s also passionate about music; so much so that he’s a DJ on the side. On Friday, Smoke ... [Read More]

Springtime auto default cycle reappears

Thursday, Apr. 27, 2023, 10:13 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Perhaps cyclical improvements in auto finance defaults during the springtime are making a notable return. According to data through March for the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices, S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian reported the auto default rate dropped 7 ... [Read More]

Newest Open Lending survey reinforces importance of return on assets

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Wednesday, Apr. 26, 2023, 11:52 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Open Lending Corp. recently released initial findings from a survey polling 95 leaders at credit unions, banks and captive finance companies of all sizes in an effort to illuminate the challenges financial institutions are facing in 2023 and how they ... [Read More]
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