Auto Finance Accelerate 2019 Unveils Slate of Speakers From Chase Auto, Ally, Hyundai Capital

Auto Finance News is proud to welcome a slate of diverse speakers to this year’s spring event, Auto Finance Accelerate 2019, to be held May 13-16 at the Omni San Diego. The speaker faculty is quickly expanding with the addition of several top captives and banks. Chase Auto’s Chief Marketing Officer Melinda Welsh will kick off […]

• Nicole Casperson
• April 10, 2019
• Compliance, Credit Performance, Innovation & Mobility, Operations, Risk, Sales & Marketing, Strategy, Technology

Auto Finance Accelerate Early Bird Registration Ends This Week

Friday will be the last chance to take advantage of early bird registration prices for Auto Finance News’ week-long event, Auto Finance Accelerate. The series of three events will take place May 13-16 at the Omni San Diego. The success of the Auto Finance Risk Summit, now in its 12th year, and the 4th annual Auto Finance Innovation Summit made way […]

• Bianca Chan
• April 3, 2019
• Innovation & Mobility, Risk, Sales & Marketing, Strategy, Technology

FTC to Give Compliance Update at Auto Finance Risk Summit

Kenneth Abbe, enforcement attorney in the Federal Trade Commission‘s Western region, has joined the speaker faculty at the Auto Finance Risk Summit to share strategies for lenders to improve regulatory risk management.  Abbe will take the stage on May 15 at 4:30 p.m. PT for a panel discussion entitled “Regulators’ Roundtable,” which will offer alerts […]

• Nicole Casperson
• March 25, 2019
• Compliance, Risk

Call for Speakers: AFN Scouts Speakers for Auto Finance Risk Summit

The Auto Finance Risk Summit — the established industry event for education and networking focused on best practices in risk management — is searching for senior leaders in auto finance to join the speaker roster. Help shape our agenda for the 12th annual Auto Finance Risk Summit to be held at the Omni San Diego on May […]

• Nicole Casperson
• February 13, 2019
• Risk

The Value of User Experience When Managing Risk

Much has been written about the rise of machine learning and artificial intelligence and how it will impact the auto lending industry. While there has been a significant amount of hype, the promise of artificial intelligence is simply game changing. The most obvious application is that thinking machines will be able to assess risk and […]

• Aclaro
• January 23, 2019
• Sponsored

Fintech Startups Pose Risk to Lenders, Analyst Warns 

As lenders increasingly look to fintech companies to facilitate loan origination, one analyst warned these partnerships can be a double-edged sword. “If [lenders] are leveraging some fintech platform that claims to have built the better mousetrap in terms of their underwriting platform but haven’t been around through credit cycles and haven’t proven that out, to […]

• Bianca Chan
• January 11, 2019
• Risk, Technology

New Accounting Rule Likely to Hike Lending Costs

As U.S. financial institutions start to implement a new loan-loss accounting guideline this week, Jefferies Equity Analyst John Hecht forecasts higher lending costs down the road. The Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) model, introduced by the Financial Accounting Standards Board in 2016, outlines how banking institutions account for and reserve against loan losses. Early adoption […]

• Bianca Chan
• January 3, 2019
• Archives, Compliance, Earnings, Risk