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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.
Weekly Wrap: Flagship Credit, Vroom forge new partnerships
The auto finance industry saw multiple partnerships take hold last week.
Weekly Wrap: 2021 origination growth and rising fraud
The first half of 2021 is projected to see increased auto originations as the world prepares for the launch of the COVID-19 vaccine as well as car sales driven by pe...
Weekly Wrap: Dwindling subprime, falling interest rates and AFN’s Executive of the Year
Last week, Auto Finance News announced that its second annual Auto Finance Executive of the Year Award goes to Ravi Raghu, executive vice president of Capital One Auto...
Weekly Wrap: A budding leasing trend and the state of auto ABS
Last week, the Auto Finance News team highlighted an uptick of low-mileage lease options as consumers change their driving habits, which could have lasting implication...
Weekly Wrap: Spotlight on used vehicles
Last week, used-car values in the Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index increased once again after a month of decline back toward normal seasonality. Used-vehicle values ha...
Weekly Wrap: Recovery momentum builds in latest Q3 earnings
This week, the Auto Finance News team took a deep dive into third-quarter earnings for auto lenders and found that, overall, the industry is seeing further signs of re...
Weekly Wrap: Industry pushes forward with cautious optimism
This week, the Auto Finance Summit was in full swing, and a resounding theme among executives in the industry was one of cautious optimism. Initial forecasts surroundi...
Weekly Wrap: Q3 earnings kick off
This week, the Auto Finance News team discussed third-quarter earnings for some of the major publicly traded banks, and found some positive trends.
Weekly Wrap: The auto finance industry’s future
Auto finance industry professionals are keeping a close eye on demand for new and used vehicles, digital tool adoption and potential leadership changes at the Consumer...
Weekly Wrap: Regulators step up enforcement
This week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced an uncharacteristic enforcement action against subprime lender Lobel Financial, columnist Marcie Belles p...