Dealers nationwide not only can use Westlake Financial Services to get a deal bought for their potential buyers, but stores also can leverage the provider for another ancillary product, too. Westlake recently announced the nationwide expansion of its vehicle protection ... [Read More]

This autumn truly represents a season of change for Secure Collateral Management (SCM), a provider of skip-tracing and collateral recovery. SCM is moving its corporate headquarters into a new state of the art facility this fall. Company management highlighted this ... [Read More]

The monthly update surfaced earlier this week about how auto-finance defaults improved again. Perhaps that trend stems at least in part to less subprime paper flowing into portfolios. The latest metrics shared by Equifax indicated that 2.78 million contracts were ... [Read More]

Auto-finance performance helped the composite rate of the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices register its best reading thus far this year. Based on data through September, S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian reported on Tuesday that the auto finance default ... [Read More]

One of the largest captive finance companies recently gave an award to Primeritus Financial Services. The national provider of repossession management, remarketing, titled services and skip-tracing services to the auto finance industry announced it was the first supplier to receive ... [Read More]

As we approach the holiday season, our thoughts turn to families and friends sitting around their living rooms. What are they talking about? Probably politics, little Joey’s grades, the football game, etc. What would it take for your customer to ... [Read More]

Just a couple of days after Location Services announced that DigitalDog Auto Recovery was among its five acquisitions, Digital Recognition Network (DRN) said on Friday that it secured a federal court victory involving both of those recovery industry companies. DRN, ... [Read More]

On Thursday, DIMONT welcomed two sales executives to its automotive team who have spent part of their careers at companies such as Black Book, FICO and Exeter Finance. The Dallas-based provider of insurance claims adjusting and collateral loss mitigation services ... [Read More]

A week after making it official that the company acquired Remarketing of America, Location Services returned to acquisition mode on Wednesday by securing five more operations for its portfolio. Location Services announced the acquisition of Auto Approve as well as four ... [Read More]

While experts consider rising interest rates impacting paper currently entering portfolios, S&P Global Ratings highlighted that collateral performance for the U.S. auto loan asset-backed securities (ABS) market improved in August on a year-over-year basis. In both the prime and subprime ... [Read More]