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Arvest Bank sees early successes with FICO Auto Score 10
Arvest Bank — a regional, full-service lender with more than 200 locations throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri — recently upgraded to FICO Auto Score 10 in a move to give the institution a more precise view of borrower risk ... Read More
dealership employee COMMENTARY: The secret to accelerating funding in indirect auto lending
In the early 2000s, I sat at a dealership finance desk with a calculator, a stack of pay stubs, and a phone that wouldn’t stop ringing. I gathered stips by hand, calculated income line by line, and verified insurance, hoping ... Read More
Mercedes-Benz USA approves NETSOL as a digital retail provider for its dealerships
NETSOL Technologies recently highlighted Mercedes-Benz USA has approved NETSOL as a digital retail provider for Mercedes-Benz dealerships. This move opens the brand’s dealer network to Transcend Retail, NETSOL’s digital retail platform. The platform gives buyers a single, continuous purchase experience, ... Read More
SPONSORED EPISODE: What independent dealers need to be successful with Chris Vangellow of Frazer
In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Chris Vangellow, who is the Director of Product Management at Frazer, described what’s changed most about running an independent dealership over the past few years, especially from a technology perspective. ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Fame: Grace Huang of Cox Automotive
We begin our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees with Grace Huang, president of Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions, who joins Cherokee Media Group’s Joe Overby for a conversation about her career journey, the value of ... Listen Here
Ben Sporn of VIP Automotive Group Takes DIY Approach to AI
Ben Sporn is the chief marketing officer of VIP Automotive Group on Long Island, N.Y. , where he runs operations and artificial intelligence projects at his family’s 10-store dealer group. He also has a tech background, having worked for Google ... Listen Here

Q3 deep subprime originations sink to lowest level ever

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SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The evidence continues to mount showing how much auto finance companies are tightening their underwriting and slowing the volume of subprime paper they're adding to their portfolios. Experian Automotive reported on Thursday that the number of consumers outside prime (with ... [Read More]

TCPA update: Courts deliver mixed bag on customer consent and call outsourcing

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Dylan Howard, Baker Donelson
Having increased in number each of the past seven years, lawsuits alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) continue to plague the consumer finance industry. As should be expected with an already complex statutory scheme, recent ... [Read More]

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AI & Auto Finance: An Expert Guide to Using This Technology

This 26-page ebook from Cherokee Media Group, sponsored by dotData, brings together insights from nine experts on how artificial intelligence...
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Turning Dealer Group Data into Demand

Stop letting messy data hold your dealership back from its true earning potential. While many multi-roof dealer groups struggle to...
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Evaluating VPP Cancellation Systems: 7 Questions Every Lender Should Ask

Selecting the right VPP cancellation system is critical to maintaining compliance, maximizing recoveries, and improving operational efficiency. As regulatory requirements...
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Auto lenders spent on AI. Here’s what paid off.

A panel of auto-lending leaders — CEOs of subprime auto finance companies, VPs of Collections, CROs, indirect-lending executives at two...
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Experian Automotive Dealer Fraud Threat Report

Fraud is Hitting Dealerships Hard When one bad deal can erase tens of thousands in profit, fraud becomes impossible to...
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AI-Financing Spotlight: How Tracy Honda Sells 12-15 More Deals Monthly

Discover how Tracy Honda is outperforming its market by leveraging AI-powered auto financing to drive faster approvals and close more...
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The AI Dealer Playbook: 5 Questions to Ask Before You Buy AI

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping dealership operations by automating communication, improving workflows, and supporting staff with tools like copilots and...
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Speaking the Same Language: How Dealers Structure Capital for Real Estate and Growth

Why Capital Structures Matters in Today’s Market Dealers actively expanding or acquiring real estate are often constrained not by opportunity—but...
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CFPB update: Auto finance bulletin now subject to Congressional review

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Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
The flurry of activity associated with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, its leadership and the regulation of auto financing intensified again this week. On Tuesday, Washington D.C. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly scheduled preliminary injunction hearing for Dec. 22 as ... [Read More]

Huntington elevates Porrello to lead auto finance segment

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SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Huntington Bank looked within its ranks to fill a position set to be open because of a retirement as the institution has promoted industry veteran Rich Porrello to president of its auto finance business. Since 2010, Porrello has served as ... [Read More]

Dealertrack and DealerCenter partner to help independent dealers’ F&I efforts

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SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
More service providers are working together to help dealership finance departments. This week, Dealertrack and DealerCenter announced a strategic integration partnership delivering a more connected F&I workflow. Independent dealerships using DealerCenter's DMS platform can seamlessly connect customer information to Dealertrack’s ... [Read More]

5 major auto financing metrics move higher in November

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SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Each of the five metrics involving used- and new-vehicle financing that Edmunds tracks each month moved higher in November. That collection includes averages for terms, monthly payment, the total amount financed, APR and down payment. Edmunds manager of industry analysis ... [Read More]

Exeter Finance joins RouteOne’s eContracting platform

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SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The streamlining of financing is happening in the subprime space, too. RouteOne announced on Monday that Exeter Finance is now an available eContracting finance source for dealers utilizing the RouteOne platform. Officials reiterated eContracting can enable the digital exchange of ... [Read More]

3 finance companies settle with NYC’s consumer agency for more than $300K

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SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Back in October, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a package of legislation giving the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) additional regulatory muscle to combat what officials described as “predatory financing practices in the used-vehicle industry.” While those new ... [Read More]

AUL Corp. names business development manager for Central Region

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SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This week, vehicle service contracts administrator AUL Corp. announced the hiring of Paul Leary to be the business development manager for the company’s Central Region. According to Jason Garner, senior vice president of sales and business development of AUL Corp., ... [Read More]

New training certification program available for VSC professionals

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SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
TrainAndCertify.org, which offers education programs for sales and customer service reps in various consumer-centric industries, on Thursday announced the availability of its Certified Vehicle Protection Professional (CVPP) certification program. TrainAndCertify.org explained that it established the CVPP program via the Academy ... [Read More]

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