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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

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

subprime auto financing
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]

Experts explain auto-finance & general-economy implications after another rate cut comes during ‘challenging situation’

Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025, 12:24 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
The primary result of this week’s meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) was the Federal Reserve reducing the federal funds rate below 4% for the first time since 2022. The reduction of the target rate to 3.75% to ... [Read More]

Protective to acquire Portfolio, enhancing dealer wealth and F&I solutions

Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025, 10:39 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Two well-known names in the F&I and reinsurance arenas — Protective Asset Protection and Portfolio — are now on track to be part of the same organization serving dealerships. On Thursday morning, Protective Life Corp., a U.S. subsidiary of Dai-ichi ... [Read More]

ARA elects new president, gives 6 awards during annual convention

Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, 02:38 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Along with handing out six industry awards, the American Recovery Association elected new board leadership during its annual convention last week in Reno, Nev. And there is a new president of the association, as the membership elected Todd Case of ... [Read More]

VantageScore: Early-stage delinquencies at highest point in 5 years

Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, 11:56 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Along with slowing originations, the latest edition of CreditGauge by VantageScore showed delinquencies throughout the credit market are on the rise. Analysts reported on Tuesday that overall credit delinquencies edged higher in September, with delinquencies 30 to 59 days past ... [Read More]
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