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Used Car Week Hall of Famer Jerry Kroshus of Location Services
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, 04:19 PM
Next up on our podcast series with 2025 Used Car Week Hall of Fame inductees is a conversation with Jerry Kroshus, who is CEO of Location Services. Cherokee Media President Bill Zadeits talks with Kroshus about his career journey in ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Famer Kathy Ruble of Ally
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, 07:52 PM
Next up on our podcast series with 2025 Used Car Week Hall of Fame inductees, we catch up with Kathy Ruble, who is executive director of marketing, dealer financial services and communications at Ally. Ruble has been the longtime moderator ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: From Acquisition to Sale — Winning Used Car Tactics from Autotrader and vAuto experts
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, 05:28 PM
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, host Bill Zadeits joins with Elizabeth Stegall of Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book and ICO, and Bethany Johnson from vAuto to preview their Used Car Week workshop. Listen now and you’ll get ... Listen Here

Another Westlake division sets records in 2021

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Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, 05:33 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
As one subsidiary of Westlake Technology Holdings posted records in the vehicle leasing space last year, another of its subsidiaries that specializes in shared cash flow auto lending generated new company records in 2021, too. According to a news release, ... [Read More]

Solera to add Spireon to automotive technology portfolio

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Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, 05:20 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Spireon is likely familiar to both finance companies as well as fleet operators that use its services to track vehicles. According to a news release, Spireon now is on a path to have new ownership by the end of the ... [Read More]

Experian expands credit-building tools for consumers

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Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, 04:56 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Another initiative to help finance companies cater to consumers with little or no credit backgrounds recently surfaced; this time from Experian. In what the company said is meant to further financial inclusion across the United States, Experian launched what it ... [Read More]

Florida dealer group involved in credit-building program dubbed ‘Grow & Drive’

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Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, 04:31 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
A Florida-based group that owns and operates five franchised stores in the Sunshine State as well as Georgia and South Carolina is the first dealer group in the U.S. to work with Grow Credit, which is a financial inclusion platform ... [Read More]

CFPB turns attention to what it calls ‘junk fees’

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Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, 03:50 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) launched an initiative on Wednesday in connection with what the federal regulator called “exploitative junk fees” charged by banks and financial companies. The CFPB said through a news release that it’s making this request ... [Read More]

Former DealerSocket exec now COO at VisionMenu

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Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022, 04:42 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
VisionMenu welcomed a new chief operating officer this week. Taking on the position for the F&I software provider is Steven Meeker, who arrives as VisionMenu said it’s experiencing rapid growth that prompted the expansion of its executive team to meet ... [Read More]

CreditMiner & TransUnion partner to fight synthetic fraud

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Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022, 04:38 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
CreditMiner and TransUnion are working together in an attempt to keep fraud from infecting dealerships. The companies announced a new partnership this week that enables them to offer the automotive industry cutting-edge fraud prevention technologies via their API capabilities. CreditMiner ... [Read More]

ARA looking for unity during ‘another year of turbulence’

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Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022, 04:35 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
American Recovery Association president Dave Kennedy directly opened a message to repossession agents, finance companies, forwarders and other service providers by saying: “This year is going to be another year of turbulence in our industry.” While auto defaults have risen ... [Read More]

RateGenius: Applications & savings via auto refinancing jump in 2020

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Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, 04:48 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
RateGenius shared how much consumers saved when refinancing their vehicle’s retail installment sales contract in 2020. According to the firm’s report based on activities through its network of more than 150 finance companies nationwide, RateGenius said Americans saved an average ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Top 3 F&I data points from 2021 spotted by StoneEagle

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Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, 09:34 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
In his first appearance of the year on the Auto Remarketing Podcast, StoneEagle F&I senior vice president of business development Joe St. John acknowledged how enticing it would be to run a dealership again because of the F&I performances many ... [Read More]
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