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Recapping credit scores & other trends in auto finance with Shams Blanc of FICO
Shams Blanc, head of auto scores at FICO, made another appearance on the Auto Remarketing Podcast to elaborate more about the fall edition of the FICO Score Credit Insights report. Along with recapping what’s going on in auto finance, Blanc ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: Greenville Auto Auction Celebrates 16 Years—A look back and a look ahead
On this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Bill Zadeits visits with Billy Willis and Kevin Stallings of Greenville Auto Auction. The auction celebrates 16 years in early September, and the guys talk about the history of the sale, ... Listen Here
Wide-ranging car-business conversation with Lotlinx chairman and CEO Len Short
Lotlinx chairman and CEO Len Short firmly believes car dealers are the most resilient operators in any business. During this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Short explained why he is anticipating dealers showing that resilience again because it’s needed ... Listen Here

A treat for the industry? Perhaps another rate cut coming

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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

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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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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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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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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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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]

New ALS Resolvion service aims to reduce impound headaches

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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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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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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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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]

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