The amount of debt consumers are absorbing to acquire a new or used vehicle reached record highs during the fourth quarter, according to the latest State of the Automotive Finance Market report from Experian. With consumers turning to longer-term contracts ... [Read More]

Westlake Financial Services is looking to use a pair of technology advancements in an effort to drum up more business for the finance company that specializes in subprime retail installment contracts. First this week, Westlake launched an online indirect auto ... [Read More]

Bankruptcy lead provider OnlineBKmanager.com is celebrating 20 years of servicing dealerships with marketing material to dealerships who want to do business with individuals who either filed or had their bankruptcies discharged. “It is hard to believe it has been 20 ... [Read More]

Perhaps it’s not yet a significant risk threat to the overall health of auto finance company portfolios, but Experian Automotive’s Melinda Zabritski explained the possible problems if your customers are using the vehicle attached to the installment contract to drive ... [Read More]

President Trump took aim again at government regulation with the executive order he signed on Friday. The latest action is requiring every agency to establish a regulatory reform task force “to eliminate red tape,” according to the White House. The ... [Read More]

National Auto Care and RoadVantage each announced this week that executives with nearly 45 years of combined experience joined their management team. National Auto Care, an administrator of vehicle service contracts and ancillary products including the CarMark Certified Pre-Owned Program, ... [Read More]

This week, defi SOLUTIONS rolled out its newest product offering defi SERVICING, a loan management and servicing system (LMS) along with an opportunity for auto finance companies to shape their roadmap for 2017. The company highlighted the defi SERVICING LMS ... [Read More]

Two legal experts told SubPrime Auto Finance News that they were not surprised when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit last week granted a rehearing request for a case involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. ... [Read More]

Steve Roennau’s automotive career includes time as a training consultant for nearly a half dozen OEMs — Chrysler, General Motors, Ford, Mitsubishi and Hyundai. Roennau’s professional life also includes tenures in important roles at a dealership such as salesperson, used-car ... [Read More]

WalletHub recently released a report highlighting the top 20 cities where consumers took on the largest amount of financing to acquire a vehicle and where they also absorbed the least, generating extreme debt-to-income ratios. In order to identify the cities with the ... [Read More]