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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

Industry Elite: Chuck Tapp of America’s Group

Friday, Mar. 20, 2026, 01:04 PM

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

PODCAST: ID Analytics on benefits of alternative data

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Thursday, Mar. 7, 2019, 03:07 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Our series of episodes originating from the Vehicle Finance Conference hosted by the American Financial Services Association continues with a conversation including Craig Stokum, who is director of sales in automotive for ID Analytics. Nick asked ID Analytics about alternative ... [Read More]

7 states finish 2018 with 60-day delinquency rate at or above 1%

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Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2019, 05:32 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Experian’s Q4 2018 State of the Automotive Finance Market report showed that seven states closed this past year with 60-day delinquency rates of at least 1 percent. Overall, analysts pinpointed the 60-day delinquency rate at 0.78 percent in Q4, which ... [Read More]

FTC wants comments on proposed amendments to safeguards and privacy rules

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Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2019, 04:52 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday said it is seeking comment on proposed amendments to two rules that protect the privacy and security of customer information held by financial institutions. In separate notices to be published in the Federal Register ... [Read More]

MBSi acquires My Recovery System and Vendor Transparency Solutions

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Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2019, 03:24 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

More consolidation in the recovery space arrived late on Tuesday as Automotive Intelligence Council member MBSi Corp. increased its collection of resources. The provider of compliance-enabled repossession assignment management software and vendor management software announced the acquisition of My Recovery ... [Read More]

Kingsway Financial Services finalizes acquisition of Geminus Holding

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Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2019, 03:20 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

An F&I provider that’s been in business for more than 30 years has new ownership. Kingsway Financial Services on Tuesday announced it has closed on its acquisition of Geminus Holding Co., a specialty, full-service provider of vehicle service contracts and other ... [Read More]

Protective Asset Protection discusses potential 20% lift in F&I profit

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Monday, Mar. 4, 2019, 04:02 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

According to Protective Asset Protection, experts estimated that dealerships leveraging a dealer-owned warranty company structure to sell F&I products are seeing a 20-percent lift in profits on average for F&I sales. Protective Asset Protection has focused on this topic significantly ... [Read More]

ACC Consumer Finance picks Servicing Solutions to support ride-hailing finance offering

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Monday, Mar. 4, 2019, 03:57 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

ACC Consumer Finance, a specialized indirect auto finance company, recently announced that it has selected Servicing Solutions as its primary servicer. As a result of this agreement, Servicing Solutions will support ACC’s ride-hailing finance offering. ACC Consumer Finance offers a ... [Read More]

2 clear trends emerge from February’s initial finance data

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Friday, Mar. 1, 2019, 04:58 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Two trends emerged when experts from Cox Automotive, Edmunds and Kelley Blue Book took an initial look at auto data from February — rising new-vehicle costs and spiking interest rates. Kelley Blue Book noticed the average transaction prices for new models ... [Read More]

Experian offers more evidence of overblown delinquency concerns

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Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, 03:49 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Ever since some consumer-advocate commentators latched onto one piece of recent auto-finance data, experts from the automotive world replied with context to counter thoughts that thousands soon would be walking because they no longer had a vehicle. While vehicle affordability and ... [Read More]

Former CARS, Dealertrack executive joins Servicing Solutions

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Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, 04:15 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

An executive with nearly 20 years of experience with Consolidated Asset Recovery Systems and Dealertrack now is part of the leadership team at Servicing Solutions. The loan servicing organization specializing in primary and back up servicing announced on Wednesday that ... [Read More]

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