Your service drive is filled with loyal customers who trust your dealership and are physically in your store, yet most...
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Experts see Middle East conflict making current car & credit markets even more challenging
Tuesday, Mar. 24, 2026, 10:27 AM
With additional insight about affordability, FICO watches average credit scores tick lower again
Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2026, 11:27 AM
PODCAST: Industry Elite honoree Jennifer Turnage on why accurate financial information can make or break any business
Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2026, 01:05 PM
Industry Elite: Tony Rimas of XPEL
Concluding our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Tony Rimas, who is vice president of global revenue at XPEL Inc. Rimas — an avid biker who swam and ran track & field and cross country ... Listen Here
Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2026, 07:40 PM
Industry Elite honoree Mike Thomas of Resolvion on building his career — literally
Next up in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Mike Thomas, who is chief executive officer of Resolvion. Thomas shares memories with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Nick Zulovich about working in construction and ... Listen Here
Thursday, Mar. 26, 2026, 02:23 PM
Industry Elite honoree Jennifer Turnage on why accurate financial information can make or break any business
Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Jennifer Turnage, who is chief executive officer of Primeritus Financial Services. Turnage talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Nick Zulovich about the importance ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2026, 05:01 PM
Connecting auto finance, risk management & interest rates ahead of Fed’s last policy meeting of year
Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, 10:23 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
The Federal Reserve will make its final decision about interest rates this year on Wednesday. And at least one member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) appears to be looking at auto finance when considering another rate cut. At ... [Read More]
COMMENTARY: A dealer’s 2026 strategy guide for F&I in the new age of affordability
Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, 09:55 AM
Rick Kurtz, Protective Asset Protection
The automotive industry in 2025 was defined not by a single dominant trend, but by a complex interplay of affordability crises, global trade adjustments, and a bifurcated consumer market. For auto dealers, addressing this landscape means accepting that the traditional ... [Read More]
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A Buyer’s Guide for Independent Dealer, BHPH, and Auto Finance Leaders Reducing Risk, Unlocking Opportunity Independent dealers and finance companies...
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Vehicles touch multiple vendors before they ever hit the lot, and when approvals, communication, and invoices are scattered, delays are...
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Ascent Dealer Services hires former Protective executive to be VP of acquisition
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 09:59 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Ascent Dealer Services, a provider of F&I performance, training, and profitability solutions, recently named Rob Johnson as its new vice president of acquisition. Johnson possesses more than eight years of specialized experience in the automotive and F&I sector. He began ... [Read More]
Growing volume of paper booked in Q3 has terms stretching toward 2033
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, 10:58 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Imagine an excited individual who financed and took delivery of a used vehicle on Labor Day. Perhaps it was a gently used, older car or maybe even a certified pre-owned model. There’s a possibility that contract won’t reach its payoff ... [Read More]
GALR & MVTRAC share important dialogue at Used Car Week
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, 03:11 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
One of the purposes of Used Car Week is bringing various industry segments together for constructive conversations. An example of that outcome surfaced when the Georgia Association of Licensed Repossessors (GALR) announced that it had “productive and forward-looking industry dialogue” ... [Read More]
S&P Global Ratings: Extensions exceeding pre-pandemic level
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, 10:56 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Evidently, finance companies are instructing their collections departments to work even harder with customers who are having trouble maintaining their monthly payments. According to S&P Global Ratings’ latest U.S. auto loan asset-backed securities data shared with Cherokee Media Group on ... [Read More]
StoneEagle Q3 data shows steady times in dealer F&I departments
Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, 10:21 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
StoneEagle on Tuesday highlighted how it was a steady quarter in dealership F&I departments amid some gross-profit turbulence seen in July, August and September. Third-quarter information included in the StoneEagleDATA F&I Benchmark Report showed stable F&I performance across key metrics. ... [Read More]
CFPB unveils ‘humility pledge’ for supervision division
Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, 11:48 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Perhaps compliance departments at auto lenders and other companies involved in financial services had something extra to be thankful for last week. Just ahead of Thanksgiving, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made significant changes to how its supervision division conducts ... [Read More]
AutoPayPlus welcomes new agency development manager
Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, 11:47 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
AutoPayPlus by US Equity Advantage continued its recent string of moves by announcing the appointment of Steven Weir as agency development manager. In this role, the automated financial concierge service said Weir will be responsible for building and supporting strong ... [Read More]
Weltman, Weinberg & Reis adds 5 attorneys to Chicago office, donates to Feeding America network
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025, 01:48 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Along with making donations to local food banks and pantries in the Feeding America network, Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., added to its stable of legal professionals at its Chicago office. This month, the firm welcomed five new attorneys: Tresina ... [Read More]
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