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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

Industry Elite: Mike Clark Jr. of C&C Cars

Friday, Mar. 20, 2026, 03:50 PM

Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Mike Clark Jr., operations manager of C& C Cars in Pinellas Park, Fla. Clark is a third-generation dealer and helps run the family business ... Listen Here

Industry Elite: Chuck Tapp of America’s Group

Friday, Mar. 20, 2026, 01:04 PM

Next up on our series with the inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honorees is America’s Group CEO Chuck Tapp. In this episode, we revisit Tapp’s fireside chat with Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits at Used Car Week 2025. They ... Listen Here

CFPB forms federal consumer financial law taskforce

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Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, 03:40 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Along with naming academics, industry leaders and consumer advocates to a trio of committees, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau also announced last week that it will establish a taskforce to examine ways to harmonize and modernize federal consumer financial laws. ... [Read More]

New division Westlake Capital Finance fueled to help dealers grow operations

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Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, 03:38 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Dealerships wanting to expand their operations now can turn to Westlake Technology Holdings. The finance company that originates installment contracts throughout the credit spectrum recently launched Westlake Capital Finance to provide commercial real estate loans to dealers. The commercial real ... [Read More]

DIMONT adds another former van Wagenen exec to leadership team

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Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, 03:27 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

For the second time this year, DIMONT reinforced its leadership team with a former executive from van Wagenen. This week, the Dallas-based provider of insurance claims adjusting and collateral loss mitigation services to the residential mortgage and auto lending industries ... [Read More]

AutoMap promotes Sargeant to CEO

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Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, 03:25 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

An employee who has been with AutoMap for nearly 10 years now is the company’s chief executive officer. The provider of electronic vehicle monitoring and location services recently announced Mark Sargeant was promoted to CEO of AutoMap in a move ... [Read More]

A treat for the industry? Perhaps another rate cut coming

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Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, 03:03 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

This week, the Federal Reserve released minutes from its September Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting that resulted in policymakers leveraging their second consecutive opportunity to lower the target range for the federal funds rate after having not taken a ... [Read More]

ARA unveils theme & registration for North American Repossessors Summit

Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, 04:11 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

It might only be October, but the American Recovery Association (ARA) already has its eyes on early May, unveiling the theme for one of its largest annual events. ARA, along with headline sponsor, Harding Brooks Insurance, announced this week that ... [Read More]

ALS Resolvion shifts online location for best-practices forum

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Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, 04:09 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

ALS Resolvion is trying to make collaboration within the skip-tracing and repossession worlds a little easier to be done online. The recovery management firm this week announced a transition of its popular community forum, Lenders Repossession Best Practices, from one ... [Read More]

Open Lending promotes 2 longtime executives

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Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, 04:08 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Open Lending promoted two of its executives this week who have combined to serve the company for nearly 20 years. The provider of analytics, risk-based pricing, risk modeling and automated decision technology for credit unions and other finance companies, announced ... [Read More]

Trust Science secures exclusive registration to use Credit Bureau 2.0

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Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, 04:04 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Trust Science gained important branding privileges this week. The company obtained official, exclusive registration over the use of “Credit Bureau 2.0” as a trademark from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. According to a news release, Trust Science and its ... [Read More]

Assessing risk as 84-month contracts become more prevalent

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Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, 01:46 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

S&P Global Ratings senior director Amy Martin recently assembled a report with a title that concisely summarized the current state of auto financing. Martin’s analysis titled, “Speed Bump Ahead: As Auto Loans Accelerate Toward 84 Months, Caution Is Warranted,” reviewed ... [Read More]

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