Open Lending Blog

Mar 25
1 min

Achieving CECL Embedded Credit Enhancement Treatment

CECL (Current Expected Credit Losses) implementation may seem scary at first regarding the time for implementation, lack of specific regulatory...

Mar 16
1 min

CECL: What Your Bank Or Credit Union Needs To Know

The impact of CECL, or Current Expected Credit Losses, is not yet fully known, and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has further muddied the...

Mar 10
1 min

Nonprime Auto Lending in 2021

The early months of 2020 for the automotive industry were, in a word, difficult. The coronavirus pandemic slowed car sales and auto loan growth, but...

Mar 3
1 min

CECL: A Potential Problem For Lending?

CECL is a term that has been going around in the financial world, but the standard itself is confusing, the timing of compliance is different for...

Feb 23
1 min

How 3 Financial Institutions Boosted Auto Loan Margins in 2020

Banks and credit unions in 2020 faced many challenges, but by the third quarter, lending portfolios overall showed signs of recovery. However, a few...

Feb 16
1 min

Union Square CU Sees Margins Improve 150 bps with Open Lending

Buying a car has become a lot more difficult for many more people, especially after the coronavirus pandemic brought on greater financial strain in...

Feb 9
2 min

Drue Goodale Fills Role of Open Lending SVP

Drue Goodale has been employed by Open Lending for eight years now, but before that he was with Open Lending as a client. He came to the company from...

Feb 2
2 min

How to Manage Credit Risk With the Right Data

Banks and credit unions want and need to bring in more loans, and they must be able to say ‘yes’ to as many leads as possible. But things don’t...

Jan 26
2 min

Moving Ahead with Alternative Data

Banking has changed over the years, but the changes that occurred over the last year are like nothing financial institutions have...

Jan 19
2 min

Don’t Miss Out on Amazing Auto Refi Opportunities

If your bank or credit union is only lending to the top credit tiers, then many opportunities for interest income are passing you by. Open Lending’s...