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Weekly Wrap: Can e-commerce momentum continue?
Last week, the Auto Finance News team rounded out the last of first-quarter earnings results from online retailers Carvana, Vroom and Shift Technologies, all of which ...
Weekly Wrap: Top takeaways from the Auto Finance Risk Summit
Last week, the Auto Finance News team wrapped up its final event of the spring season, the Auto Finance Risk Summit. Auto lenders from all corners of the industry cite...
Weekly Wrap: Navigating looming risk factors during COVID-19 recovery
Rebounding origination volumes, improving recovery rates and strong credit performance have defined the auto finance industry’s first quarter of 2021 for many lenders,...
Weekly Wrap: A look at COVID recovery in Q1 2021
The first quarter of 2021 has proved a bright spot after many months of stressed vehicle sales due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Multiple auto lenders saw their auto books...
Weekly Wrap: EV financing trends and auto’s post-pandemic resurgence
Last week, an Auto Finance News analysis provided a window into electric vehicle financing trends financed on Vroom’s platform, and more banks, such as Fifth Third, PN...
Weekly Wrap: Q1 2021 earnings point to auto’s further recovery
Last week, publicly-traded banks started releasing their earnings reports, and once again, performance remains strong this quarter. Optimism is running high as last we...
Weekly Wrap: Tackling compliance ambiguities in auto finance
The auto finance industry has recently seen the removal of certain ambiguities in compliance and regulation practices. The U.S. Supreme Court, for one, clarified the ...
Examining effective specialty recovery processes in auto finance
Lenders are coming face to face with the ever-growing need for a strategy for effective specialty recoveries, and no two auto lenders are alike. Auto portfolios have u...
Weekly Wrap: Inventory woes ripple into incentive spending, monthly payments
Last week, the Auto Finance News editorial team examined the decrease in incentive spend in February and rising monthly payments in the new- and used-vehicle market, t...
Weekly Wrap: Pass-through agreements and the upside of chip shortages
Last week, Global Lending Services entered into a pass-through agreement with Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp., and a report from Moody’s Investors Services outlined the ...
Weekly Wrap: Where do EV batteries fit into auto finance?
Last week’s Auto Finance Innovation Summit brought the nation’s top lending and leasing executives together to discuss the changing role technology plays in the custom...
Weekly Wrap: How significant are affinity partnerships in auto finance?
Last week, Navy Federal Credit Union, the nation’s largest credit union in auto loan volume, announced a new affinity partnership that allows it access to digital reta...
Weekly Wrap: Inside auto refinance trends
Last week, Amanda Harris took a deep dive into the growing trend of digital refinancing in our March cover story, “Auto refinance enters the spotlight,” examining the ...
Weekly Wrap: An all-in interest rate cap looms, inclusive lending in the spotlight
Regulatory changes have long been expected with the administration change in Washington, D.C. As the dust beings to settle on the transition, new priorities for Democr...
What will it take to prop up subprime auto originations?
Subprime origination volume in the third quarter of 2020 continues to lag behind 2019 levels, driven by tightened credit boxes and inventory shortages, even as many le...
Q4 earnings wrap on a positive note, dealers prioritize digital at NADA Show
Last week, GM Financial joined Ally Financial and Chase Auto in reporting the surge in fourth-quarter originations that pushed the lenders’ yearend into positive terri...
Harley, Truist eye new initiatives as loan performance wavers
Last week’s earnings reports in the auto finance industry were marked by new initiatives from Harely-Davidson and Truist Bank, and signs from Santander Consumer USA an...
Weekly Wrap: Q4 earnings and credit access trends
ecent fourth-quarter earnings from some of the biggest players in the auto finance industry paint mixed results in loan performance and origination growth. U.S. B...
Weekly Wrap: Auto lenders eye growth through innovation
Several auto lenders last week announced innovative ways to expand or improve their business. Chase Auto, for one, has joined with electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian...
Weekly Wrap: Riots, credit performance and inventory
As the country prepares for a shift in leadership, the industry is looking ahead to 2021 and making predictions.