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Venture capitalists pumped $1.2 billion into auto fintechs in 2022, but that investment volume amounted to only half of the ...

In the subprime auto industry’s infancy back in 1992, Arizona businessman Ernest Garcia II formed Ugly Duckling from two car ...

Electric vehicle incentives are on the rise, but a hastened rate of EV adoption might upend vehicle values in the ...

Vehicle starter-interrupt devices may be headed for the chopping block if regulators have their way.  In its “Supervisory Highlights” report ...

Financiers are refreshing their product pipelines as leasing’s popularity has taken a hit. The one-two punch of increased car prices ...

New York regulators continue to crack down on lenders for unintentional fair lending violations. The most recent target was Poughkeepsie-based ...

Since being introduced in 1956 by engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac, the Fair Isaac Corporation’s (FICO) scoring algorithms ...

Though auto dealers were excluded from oversight when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was formed back in 2010, they ...