It’s been a little while since I’ve made an entry into my diary about navigating through the rigors of the National Automotive Finance Association’s Consumer Credit Compliance Certification Program. I’m happy to report I can see the certification summit. While ... [Read More]

Over the past 28 years in executive search and several years as a general manager at a dealership prior, I have found seven components common to all terrific hires. We focus on these components when we are evaluating candidates and ... [Read More]

With delinquencies an ongoing concern, FICO said it has crafted a way to prioritize the account holders with the highest likelihood of paying. FICO discussed the process in its latest white paper, delving into the topic by discussing five questions ... [Read More]

The Federal Open Market Committee within the Federal Reserve is set to conduct its next regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday. It appears the policymakers have much to discuss since first-quarter gross domestic product figures arrived this past Friday. ... [Read More]

The auto finance component of the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices showed contract defaults improved in March both on a year-over-year and sequential basis. According to data released by S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian, auto loan defaults came in ... [Read More]

Carleton, a provider of compliant financing calculation and document generation solutions, recently announced that it has successfully completed its 2016 SOC 2 compliance audit, conducted by Crowe Horwath. The company highlighted SOC 2 compliance has quickly become a hot topic ... [Read More]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said on Wednesday that Security National Automotive Acceptance Company (SNAAC) violated a consent order from 2015, demanding that the finance company make good on the redress it owes to consumers and pay an additional $1.25 ... [Read More]

F&I Express insisted the F&I product cancellation process currently lacks standardization, automation, transparency and efficiency. F&I Express continued by stating these challenges not only have a negative impact on the day-to-day operations of a product provider or finance company, but ... [Read More]

Hudson Cook associate Anastasia Caton observed last week’s oral arguments during a crucial debt collection case in front of the Supreme Court that might make third-party efforts within auto finance significantly more difficult depending which way the nine justices rule. ... [Read More]

The National Automotive Finance Association is organizing the 21st annual Non-­Prime Auto Financing Conference with the same mandate organization leadership has held for more than two decades. “This is the industry event where all the non-­prime auto financing company executives ... [Read More]