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Industry Elite honoree Kelly Wyatt on 25-year career with GM Financial

Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2026, 04:43 PM

Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Kelly Wyatt, who is chief digital officer with GM Financial. Wyatt shares a conversation with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Nick Zulovich about being ... Listen Here

Industry Elite: Sean Morgan of Westlake Financial

Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 03:07 PM

Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Sean Morgan, who is executive vice president of finance and operations at Westlake Financial. Morgan talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby ... Listen Here

Automotive Intelligence Award honoree Tom Kontos of Auto Auction Holdings

Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 01:56 PM

Our conversations with the 2026 Automotive Intelligence Award winners continue with Tom Kontos, who now is analytics advisor for Auto Auction Holdings. Convinced to come out of retirement and get back in the business last fall with the growing wholesale ... Listen Here

Multiple discussions about repossessions & recoveries on deck for Used Car Week

Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, 12:54 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Repossessions and recoveries will be one of the main topics covered during Used Car Week, which begins on Monday at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas. In fact, the first session of the entire event is a discussion with ... [Read More]

Experian launches new tool to combine credit, cash flow & alternative data into single score

Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, 11:48 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

This week, Experian rolled out what the company said is the most advanced credit decisioning model it has ever released, marking a “positive milestone in Experian’s mission to help increase fair access to credit.” The company highlighted the Experian Credit ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Used Car Week Hall of Famer Becky Igo of Allied Solutions

Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, 10:48 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Becky Igo remembers the first few business trips she made going to industry conferences at a time when things like pay phones and fax machines were critical business-development tools. Now more than four decades later, the regional vice president for ... [Read More]

AutoPayPlus highlights series of technology, compliance & organizational advancements

Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, 11:42 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

AutoPayPlus by US Equity Advantage, an automated financial concierge service, announced that it has achieved a series of technology, compliance, and organizational advancements designed to deliver greater efficiency, accuracy and security for its dealer partners. First, the company said it ... [Read More]

Open Lending unveils ApexOne Auto so lenders can review deeper pool of potential customers

Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, 11:34 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Last week, Open Lending Corp. announced the launch of ApexOne Auto, an advanced decisioning platform that expands the company’s capabilities to serve the full spectrum of auto-finance customers. The provider of automotive lending enablement and risk analytics solutions for financial ... [Read More]

Vitu bookends 2025 with acquisitions; this time of DDI Technology

Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, 09:59 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Vitu began the year by successfully closing its acquisition of the Dealertrack registration and titling businesses from Cox Automotive. And the innovator in vehicle-to-government (V2Gov) technology is rounding out the year with another acquisition. Vitu announced on Friday that it ... [Read More]

LCT’s Refund Control now aligns with new industry standards set by 3 associations

Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, 09:58 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Lender Compliance Technologies (LCT) said Thursday it secured “an important milestone for the industry” in connection with its Refund Control platform. The provider of a tool for managing voluntary protection product (VPP) cancellations and refunds announced that its platform fully ... [Read More]

2025 Repossession Agent of the Year: Phil Hanks of Connect 1 Recovery

Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, 10:34 AM

Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor

Phil Hanks spent more than 17 years in corporate positions associated with the recovery industry. Much of that time was with Manheim, but Hanks also held leadership positions with Primeritus Financial Services and MBSi. Then in April 2013, Hanks established ... [Read More]

2025 Loss Mitigation Executive of the Year: Craig Paterson of GM Financial

Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, 02:23 PM

Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor

Auto loans and retail installment contracts are often referred to by industry executives as paper. When Craig Paterson began his career in automotive, many of the tasks he had to complete were done on paper, too. Much has changed in ... [Read More]

Lender executives & industry experts distill current status of subprime auto finance

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Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, 10:48 AM

Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor

Suspicions are intensifying about the current health of auto finance, especially within the subprime space stemming from the bankruptcy filings of Tricolor Holdings and PrimaLend. For example, the first question from an investment analyst during Carvana’s quarterly conference call last ... [Read More]

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