Finance

Tricolor Collapse Sends Fifth Third on a Hunt for Bad Collateral

A Tricolor dealership in Phoenix.

Photographer: Ash Ponders/Bloomberg

Tricolor Holdings’ chaotic collapse and potential double-pledging of autos to creditors sent Fifth Third Bancorp executives on a “house-to-house” search through its loan collateral for other discrepancies.

They did find more — two, to be exact, out of 120,000 vehicles.