Selecting the right VPP cancellation system is critical to maintaining compliance, maximizing recoveries, and improving operational efficiency. As regulatory requirements...
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This Month's Focus
Artificial Intelligence
COMMENTARY: Inventory acquisition in the AI age
Friday, May. 29, 2026, 01:00 PM
AI at car dealerships: a ‘crawl, walk, run’ evolution with data at foundation
Friday, May. 29, 2026, 11:54 AM
Marketing for car dealerships in the age of AI
Wednesday, May. 27, 2026, 11:34 AM
Experian’s Melinda Zabritski discusses ongoing stretching of terms
The latest appearance on the Auto Remarketing Podcast by Melinda Zabritski, Experian’s head of automotive financial insights and Automotive Intelligence Award recipient, focused on auto-loan terms, which oftentimes are at least 72 months nowadays. Zabritski also compared a data point ... Listen Here
Friday, Jun. 12, 2026, 09:35 AM
Forming the Transport Queens with Amber Gosney of SYCN Auto Logistics
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Tuesday, Jun. 2, 2026, 01:30 PM
PODCAST: Autonomous vehicles & the used-car market with Peter Janczewski of Draiver
We continue our episodes of the Auto Remarketing Podcast originating from the Live Stage, which was sponsored by SYCN Auto Logistics, during the Used Car Industry Summit in Miami this spring. To get a better understanding of how autonomous technology ... Listen Here
Tuesday, Jun. 2, 2026, 01:23 PM
Solera to add Spireon to automotive technology portfolio
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
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]
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Best Practices, Ideas, and Tools for Business
Auto lenders spent on AI. Here’s what paid off.
A panel of auto-lending leaders — CEOs of subprime auto finance companies, VPs of Collections, CROs, indirect-lending executives at two...
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Experian Automotive Dealer Fraud Threat Report
Fraud is Hitting Dealerships Hard When one bad deal can erase tens of thousands in profit, fraud becomes impossible to...
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AI-Financing Spotlight: How Tracy Honda Sells 12-15 More Deals Monthly
Discover how Tracy Honda is outperforming its market by leveraging AI-powered auto financing to drive faster approvals and close more...
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The AI Dealer Playbook: 5 Questions to Ask Before You Buy AI
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping dealership operations by automating communication, improving workflows, and supporting staff with tools like copilots and...
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Speaking the Same Language: How Dealers Structure Capital for Real Estate and Growth
Why Capital Structures Matters in Today’s Market Dealers actively expanding or acquiring real estate are often constrained not by opportunity—but...
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Dealer Playbook: 5 Takeaways for Auto Retailers Using AI
The May issue of Auto Remarketing — “Shifting Gears: AI’s Role in Retail Automotive” — explores how top auto retailers...
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Loan Origination Automation Guidelines for Modern Lenders
Lenders are under pressure to move faster, handle higher volumes, and reduce manual tasks. Automation can help, but only if...
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Florida dealer group involved in credit-building program dubbed ‘Grow & Drive’
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’
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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]
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