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Automotive Intelligence Award honoree Satyan Merchant of TransUnion
Wednesday, Apr. 1, 2026, 07:01 PM
Our conversations with the 2026 Automotive Intelligence Award winners wrap up with Satyan Merchant, who is senior vice president, automotive and mortgage business leader at TransUnion. Merchant recollected how his interest in data started when studying statistics on the back ... Listen Here
Top Reasons Dealers can benefit by attending the Used Car Summit
Wednesday, Apr. 1, 2026, 03:27 PM
On this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Bill Zadeits has a conversation with Vanessa Rocha, VP, All-American Bonds and Insurance and a Board member with the Florida Independent Auto Dealers Association. Vanessa speaks to some of the big issues ... Listen Here
Industry Elite: Tony Rimas of XPEL
Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2026, 07:40 PM
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

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

Steven Meeker for web
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’

Dave Kennedy at UCW 2021
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]

KBRA spots more payment wobbling in December reporting

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Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, 08:19 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
More evidence that consumers maintaining their monthly payments for their vehicles is continuing to wobble arrived this week from Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA). In its latest analysis looking at the automotive securitization market, KBRA found that December remittance reports ... [Read More]

Frank discussion about repossession fees and relations among agents, forwarders & finance companies

Jeremiah Wheeler at UCW 2019
Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, 04:33 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Clashes involving repossession agents, forwarders and finance companies recently brought Jeremiah Wheeler of DRN | MVTRAC into the mix. When agents stopped scanning license plates as a way to create industry attention about repossession fees, the move left Wheeler with ... [Read More]

APCO Holdings & DealerPolicy partner to boost back-end gross potential

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Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, 04:29 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
More opportunities to enhance the insurance opportunities within your dealership finance office recently arrived. DealerPolicy, a leading insurance marketplace for automotive retail, announced a strategic partnership with APCO Holdings, a leading provider and administrator of F&I products and home to the EasyCare ... [Read More]

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