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The Auto Finance Roadmap

Auto Finance News is pleased to present The Roadmap, the podcast on best practices and trending topics in automotive lending and leasing.

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Sep 15, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 15, 2026

    Chase Auto head of pricing, credit strategy says granular decisioning key (opens the original)

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    Auto lenders must strengthen fraud controls, improve operational processes and lean more into precise, data-based decision-making as they look toward 2027, Manish Chhabra , head of auto pricing and credit strategy at Chase Auto , says on the Auto Finance News Podcast . "You cannot do one-size-fits-all underwriting," he says. "Getting granular is important. Leveraging new data, including alternative data, is important as well." While the auto credit environment has proven "fairly resilient," cons

  2. Episode · Aug 19, 2026

    GM Financial's Kyle Birch reflects on captive build-out, career ahead of retirement (opens the original)

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    Communication is key to GM Financial's continued success under new leadership, according to retiring GM Financial President of North America Operations Kyle Birch. "There'll always be challenges for lenders and dealers, even in the best of times," he told Auto Finance News. "We talk a lot about sales, funding, credit performance, customer satisfaction, profitability — the list goes on. But if we're not talking about that with our dealer customers [or] in the lending industry, then we're not help

  3. Episode · Aug 10, 2026

    Arivo Acceptance eyes increased auto ABS cadence (opens the original)

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    The auto asset-backed securitization market remains resilient as a funding outlet for many issuers and originators. “It's an important source of capital for us,” Michael Gustafson , chief financial officer at lender Arivo Acceptance , tells Auto Finance News . “The primary driver for us is getting critical mass and building up the portfolio to drive the right economics in securitization." West Valley City, Utah-based Arivo in July closed a $221 million transaction backed by nonprime and subprime

  4. Episode · Jul 27, 2026

    Ally Financial, Capital One, Huntington Bank auto originations mixed (opens the original)

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    Ally Financial, Capital One and Huntington Bank posted mixed results in the second quarter for auto originations and credit performance. Ally Financial’s auto originations rose 20.9% year over year in Q2 to $13.3 billion, while Capital One's auto originations increased 18.9% YoY to $12.9 billion. Huntington Bank's auto originations, however, decreased 39.1% YoY to $1.4 billion. Delinquencies were also mixed, with the rate of auto loans 30-plus days past due down YoY at Ally and Capital One but u

  5. Episode · Jul 20, 2026

    Wells Fargo Auto, Chase Auto originations jump in Q2 (opens the original)

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    National and regional bank second-quarter earnings point to mixed performance as larger banks lean into auto production while regional banks held steady or scaled back amid market volatility. Wells Fargo Auto, for one, reported a 40.6% year-over-year increase in originations in Q2, while Chase Auto's originations rose 8.9% YoY. Bank of America's auto book shrank. Regional banks saw improvement in auto portfolio delinquencies, but portfolio growth was mixed. Fifth Third Bank's 30- to 89-day delin

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