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Industry Elite: Sean Morgan of Westlake Financial

Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 03:07 PM

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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

TransUnion considers how quickly 2 auto-finance metrics might rise

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Wednesday, May. 22, 2019, 03:38 PM

Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor

SubPrime Auto Finance News put Brian Landau on the spot a bit after TransUnion released its latest auto-finance data. The senior vice president and automotive business leader pondered the question about which of these milestones might happen first. Will the ... [Read More]

ALS Resolvion claims 2 industry awards

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Wednesday, May. 22, 2019, 03:36 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

ALS Resolvion, a nationwide skip-trace and repossession management firm, has been selected as an honorable mention winner within Digital Defense’s 2018 Client Recognition Award Program, which recognizes organizations that display the highest level of network security. This accolade arrived soon ... [Read More]

Total Finance chooses Westlake Portfolio Management

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Wednesday, May. 22, 2019, 03:34 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

According to a news release distributed on Tuesday, Westlake Portfolio Management (WPM) has been selected as the third-party servicer by Total Finance for its $100 million automotive portfolio. The company highlighted approximately 84% of the $100 million portfolio at the time ... [Read More]

RDN unveils ‘all-in-one solution’ to track repossessions

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Tuesday, May. 21, 2019, 03:00 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Weather conditions, sports scores and now repossession status are all things that auto-finance company managers can track online and in real time. Recovery Database Network (RDN), a business unit of KAR Auction Services, announced the launch of what the company called ... [Read More]

Latest Equifax data shows continued interest in subprime to open 2019

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Monday, May. 20, 2019, 03:23 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

The latest auto-finance information available from Equifax revealed trends that made the company give bullish projections of what the subprime slice of the market might be like for the rest of the year. Equifax’s auto-loan originations observations through January reported ... [Read More]

DOWC launches partnership with Allstate Dealer Services

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Monday, May. 20, 2019, 03:21 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Dealer Owned Warranty Co. (DOWC). a provider and administrator of F&I products and services, recently partnered with the Allstate Corp. Like dealers, customers depend on the integrity of their vehicle service contracts and warranties. DOWC strives to ensure the successful ... [Read More]

masterQueue closes funding, adds director of operations

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Friday, May. 17, 2019, 02:47 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Intellaegis now has additional funding and manpower to accelerate the growth of masterQueue, its debt collection software. The company announced this week that it closed on its first round of institutional funding since its launch at Finovate in 2011. “To ... [Read More]

Auto/Mate rolls out Deal Closeout for desking module

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Friday, May. 17, 2019, 02:45 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Auto/Mate Dealership Systems recently enhanced its product offering aimed at streamlining the sales process and improving the workflow of sales managers, F&I managers and office clerks. The company released Deal Closeout, a new feature in the Desk/Mate Module of its ... [Read More]

Experts differ on what current consumer confidence really means

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Monday, May. 13, 2019, 02:18 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

We’re nearly halfway through the second quarter, and experts are seeing varying trends about whether consumers are prepared to commit to buying a vehicle at your dealership and financing the purchase through your finance company. While a pair of surveys ... [Read More]

KBRA sees non-prime and prime indexes move similarly in April

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Friday, May. 10, 2019, 02:15 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Kroll Bond Rating Agency reported this week that its auto-finance indexes that watch both the non-prime and prime spaces moved in similar directions in April. But a deeper look at the latest data showed some “slightly less sanguine results.” Analysts ... [Read More]

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