Four of the five leaders of the Federal Trade Commission support a proposed a rule to ban what the federal regulator called “junk fees and bait-and-switch advertising tactics that can plague consumers throughout the car-buying experience.” The commissioner who voted against ... [Read More]

Tip of the conference cap to the American Recovery Association and the North American Repossessors Summit planning committee. They scheduled a pair of intriguing panel discussions to begin the 2022 edition of NARS, which unfolded for the first time at ... [Read More]

The latest analysis about the health of contract payments and the auto asset-backed securities market from Kroll Bond Rating Agency and S&P Global Ratings showed mixed observations from company experts. Beginning first with the update from S&P Global Ratings, analysts ... [Read More]

We wrap up our series of podcasts recorded during this year’s Non-Prime Auto Financing Conference, hosted by the National Automotive Finance Association, with a visit with Davis + Gilbert partner Joseph Cioffi. Cioffi, who also runs the Credit Chronometer, discussed where ... [Read More]

Experts from Cox Automotive and Edmunds offered perspectives on what might happen within auto financing after the Federal Reserve made its largest increase interest rates at a single point since 1994. The Federal Open Market Committee voted 8-1 this week ... [Read More]

It appears May was a tipping point in the auto financing space. After loosening for 11 months in a row, access to auto credit tightened in May, according to the Dealertrack Credit Availability Index for all types of auto financing. ... [Read More]

When discussing CECL — implementation of the Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) accounting standards — Agora Data senior vice president of strategic relationships Jim Bass said bluntly during this month’s Non-Prime Auto Financing Conference: “It’s about to get real.” Bass, ... [Read More]

Experts from Comerica Bank, Cox Automotive and TransUnion all relayed this week that a myriad of circumstances is eroding consumer sentiment of individuals who might be currently in your auto portfolio or who might be added soon. While TransUnion reported ... [Read More]

Amy Martin, who is sector lead and senior director S&P Global Ratings, is a fixture at the Non-Prime Auto Financing Conference hosted by the National Automotive Finance Association. Before Martin made her way back on the conference stage, she spent ... [Read More]

When InsightLPR unveiled its five-person executive team last month, the technology company providing proprietary license plate recognition (LPR) software, hardware and data products to help companies increase their value said it would be rolling out its solutions at the North ... [Read More]