Your service drive is filled with loyal customers who trust your dealership and are physically in your store, yet most...
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Edmunds on why appeal of used EVs could surge as gas prices keep rising & affordability remains challenging
Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2026, 10:30 AM
PODCAST: Carleton’s Tim Yalich on how critical accurate payment information is to today’s car shoppers
Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2026, 10:57 AM
Already the top factor holding back dealership business, potential economic headwinds build
Monday, Mar. 9, 2026, 10:53 AM
Automotive Intelligence Award honoree Tom Kontos of Auto Auction Holdings
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
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 01:56 PM
Industry Elite: Mike Clark Jr. of C&C Cars
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
Friday, Mar. 20, 2026, 03:50 PM
Industry Elite: Chuck Tapp of America’s Group
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
Friday, Mar. 20, 2026, 01:04 PM
Servicing Solutions bolsters leadership team
Monday, Jul. 8, 2019, 03:11 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Servicing Solutions added an executive to its leadership team that management called, “one of the industry’s most respected rising stars.” The loan servicing organization specializing in primary and back-up servicing has hired Paul Marquez, an executive with more than 20 ... [Read More]
Platinum Auto Finance secures 2 sources of liquidity
Monday, Jul. 8, 2019, 03:08 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Platinum Auto Finance is beginning the second half of 2019 with significantly more financial resources. The Clearwater, Fla.-based subprime auto finance company leveraged its relationship with Finitive, a financial technology platform providing institutional investors with direct access to alternative lending ... [Read More]
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The Dealer’s Guide to Smarter GPS Tracking
A Buyer’s Guide for Independent Dealer, BHPH, and Auto Finance Leaders Reducing Risk, Unlocking Opportunity Independent dealers and finance companies...
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Used Car Turn Vendor Management Checklist
Vehicles touch multiple vendors before they ever hit the lot, and when approvals, communication, and invoices are scattered, delays are...
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Protective Asset Protection unveils online videos to explain F&I product options
Wednesday, Jul. 3, 2019, 04:02 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Protective Asset Protection is offering dealers another option for their presentation to vehicle buyers who might be considering products sold in the finance office. Just ahead of Fourth of July, the provider of F&I programs, services and dealer owned warranty ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Why alternative data is even more robust nowadays
Tuesday, Jul. 2, 2019, 04:53 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Finance companies, especially ones that participate in the non-prime and subprime spaces, often gather as much information as possible during the underwriting process before a funding decision, making the potential of alternative data even more dramatic. George Coutros, the head of ... [Read More]
Millennium Capital and Recovery gains 2 achievements for data security and compliance
Tuesday, Jul. 2, 2019, 03:40 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Along with the Fourth of July, Millennium Capital and Recovery Corp., has more reasons to celebrate this week. The nationwide, full-service recovery management firm secured two recent achievements in connection with data security and compliance. According to a news release, ... [Read More]
Analysts explain why new & used APR edged lower in June
Tuesday, Jul. 2, 2019, 03:38 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
It appears the annual percentage rate (APR) on new-vehicle financing edged a bit lower in June, but the movement might not be connected to actions by the Federal Reserve last month. Edmunds reported on Tuesday that the average interest rate ... [Read More]
Details about the ASAP Program from CPS
Monday, Jul. 1, 2019, 03:18 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
No doubt, both dealerships and their customers want to know ASAP if an application will be approved and a retail installment contract will be bought by the finance company. Well, the newest initiative from Consumer Portfolio Services is using that exact ... [Read More]
FASB seeks to clarify 4 accounting issues over CECL changes
Monday, Jul. 1, 2019, 03:17 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) looked to reinforce its position concerning the upcoming mandates placed on banks, credit unions and finance companies in connection with reserving for losses, emphasizing the changes can be implemented without incurring “significant costs.” Last ... [Read More]
FBI names 8 lenders potentially impacted by alleged fraud at SC Mitsubishi store
Friday, Jun. 28, 2019, 03:33 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
This week, SubPrime Auto Finance News secured the affidavit connected with an FBI investigation of a South Carolina Mitsubishi dealership containing scathing details about store management manipulating trade-in values, down payments and income figures in an elaborate fraud scheme that ... [Read More]
ADAI endorsement of Dealertrack Registration and Title Solutions reaches 10 years
Friday, Jun. 28, 2019, 03:28 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
It appears Hoosier State dealers like the tools Dealertrack provides since an endorsement of them now has existed for a decade. According to a news release distributed this week, the Automobile Dealers Association of Indiana (ADAI) has renewed its preferred ... [Read More]
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