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Artificial Intelligence
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EY study shows Canadians still cautious about AI but using it more for everyday activities
Monday, May. 11, 2026, 03:00 PM
This artificial intelligence is pretty smart, eh? That sentiment might be held by at least some Canadians who are already embedding AI into everyday decisions, often in ways that extend beyond simple assistance into early autonomy, even while concerns about ... Read More
Carfluent’s new AI tool helps dealerships beat aggregators in searches
Monday, May. 11, 2026, 09:51 AM
A growing percentage of consumers now use artificial intelligence as what marketplace Cars.com describes as a “trusted co-pilot” in their search for a vehicle to purchase. Meanwhile, other studies suggest that dealership websites are not visible to many of those ... Read More
ChatGPT app represents the latest step in CarMax’s ongoing AI evolution
Monday, May. 11, 2026, 09:45 AM
Yes, it’s AI — everyone’s favorite buzzword. But when it comes down to it, artificial intelligence is only part of what CarMax’s new ChatGPT app is all about. The company billed as the nation’s largest used-car retailer touted the app, ... Read More
FICO’s Shams Blanc on lenders sharpening underwriting & more
Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2026, 03:54 PM
Fresh off being in Miami as part of the Used Car Industry Summit that Cherokee Media Group hosted this spring, Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, appeared again on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Blanc discussed ... Listen Here
Byron Oldham of Honest Autos & FIADA
Monday, Apr. 27, 2026, 07:47 PM
Byron Oldham is president of the family-owned Honest Autos dealership and is president of the board at the Florida Independent Automobile Dealers Association. In this episode, Oldham talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about the upcoming Southeast ... Listen Here
Automotive CFO-To-Go Kathi Kruse talks dealership finance, accounting in ‘lightning round’
Sunday, Apr. 19, 2026, 04:27 AM
Kathi Kruse, the Automotive CFO-To-Go who brings her financial expertise — born through years of experience as a dealership chief financial officer — to dealers needing help in that area, is back on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. In this episode, ... Listen Here

New ALS Resolvion service aims to reduce impound headaches

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Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, 04:19 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
One of the most frustrating places where a finance company’s collateral can be during the repossession and recovery processes is the equivalent of “car jail.” To help mitigate risk and reduce that frustration, skip-trace and repossession management firm ALS Resolvion ... [Read More]

RoadVantage brings Wolfe aboard as CFO

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Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, 04:11 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
F&I product provider RoadVantage hired a new chief financial officer this week. Bringing more than 25 years of senior finance and operational experience to RoadVantage is its new CFO Scott Wolfe, who the company believes also will offer “fresh perspective ... [Read More]

Industry leans on two primary financing tools in September

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Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, 04:09 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
The auto-finance industry went to two of the most readily accessible tools it has to complete new-vehicle deliveries in September as transaction prices for new metal continue to stretch buyers’ purchasing capabilities. As J.D. Power spotted incentives climbing to within ... [Read More]

Maxim family acquires DealerMax with aim of growing F&I training firm

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Monday, Sep. 30, 2019, 03:33 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Maxim family is embarking on its next endeavor in the F&I space. In a joint news release distributed last week, Hunter Malone, owner of DealerMax, announced the sale of his firm’s assets to Jim Maxim Jr. and Jim Maxim Sr. ... [Read More]

Harnessing technology to make recovery updates more useful

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Monday, Sep. 30, 2019, 03:29 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Justin Zane offered vivid imagery to finance company attendees during the opening session of ALS Resolvion’s Innovations in Recovery Summit last week on the topic of updates regarding agencies’ efforts to find vehicles that are out for repossession. “Visualize a ... [Read More]

CoreLogic Credco integrates with eLEND Solutions to boost pre-qualification efforts

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Friday, Sep. 27, 2019, 02:45 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Two firms finalized an integration this week to make individuals’ credit scores more readily accessible earlier in the vehicle-sales cycle to help dealers and finance companies. CoreLogic, a global provider of property information, insight, analytics and data-enabled solutions, announced that ... [Read More]

60-day delinquency rate stays nearly flat in Q2

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Wednesday, Sep. 25, 2019, 03:58 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Experian determined the 60-day delinquency rate remained almost at the exact same reading year-over-year, with the second-quarter rate coming in at 0.65%. That’s just 1 basis point higher than what analysts spotted after Q2 2018. Experian’s Q2 2019 State of ... [Read More]

CFPB director makes ‘unprecedented appearance’ at NIADA National Policy Conference

CFPB at NIADA conference
Wednesday, Sep. 25, 2019, 03:51 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The leader of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau discussed a variety of compliance topics with the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association. Organizers called it an “unprecedented appearance” by CFPB director Kathy Kraninger that highlighted Tuesday’s regulatory briefings at NIADA’s National ... [Read More]

Noticeable August auto default rise happens again

auto financing
Tuesday, Sep. 24, 2019, 02:23 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The noticeable upturn in defaults finance companies might be used to seeing from July into August unfolded again this year, according to the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices. Data through August from S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian showed the ... [Read More]

Sales & originations might not see immediate lift despite another Fed rate cut

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Thursday, Sep. 19, 2019, 07:05 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
While the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates twice in less than two months certainly has generated plenty of attention, automotive experts aren’t quite so sure the actions will directly lead to immediate upticks in vehicle deliveries and loan originations. The chief economists at ... [Read More]

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