A Look Back at Last Two Decades of the Used-Car Industry in Canada
In the grand finale of our podcast episodes from Canada’s Used Car Week in June, conference chair and Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits is joined by Brad Hart and Peter Snoyer on a panel celebrating 20th anniversary of the ... Listen Here
Thursday, Sep. 18, 2025, 02:32 PM
SPONSORED EPISODE: AI & Big Data Deliver Significant Improvements to Inventory Management
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Merritt Critcher, Director of Product Management with CDK speaks with Bill Zadeits about the newest trends and potential for AI and big data to meet and exceed the inventory management needs ... Listen Here
Thursday, Sep. 11, 2025, 04:33 PM
Matt Rice
Experian on how much auto refinancing is gaining traction
Melinda Zabritski, Experian’s head of automotive financial insights, said consumers are looking for ways to secure more favorable vehicle financing terms, especially with interest rates leveling out and perhaps a cut coming next week from the Federal Reserve. The base ... Listen Here
Thursday, Sep. 11, 2025, 01:53 PM
Edmunds spots upticks in August used-vehicle financing metrics
Tuesday, Sep. 4, 2018, 02:33 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
While trends involving zero percent finance deals for new vehicles intrigued analysts, Edmunds also noticed jumps in annual percentage rate (APR) and down payments to get used vehicles delivered in August. According to data shared on Tuesday, Edmunds determined that ... [Read More]
Westlake celebrates 30 years of auto financing
Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, 02:06 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Back in 1988, a gallon of gas cost less than a dollar, and birds did all of the tweeting. Now with fuel much more expensive and tweeting having an entirely different connotation, Westlake Financial Services is celebrating, having reached 30 ... [Read More]
Spireon highlights 7 achievements from first half of 2018
Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, 02:04 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
As summertime unofficially winds down, Spireon is celebrating a number of corporate milestones secured during the first half of the year. Spireon attributed product innovation, “white-glove” customer service and key industry partnerships to increases in revenue, active subscriptions and customer ... [Read More]
Experian sees outstanding deep subprime balances drop to all-time low
Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, 01:54 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The amount of outstanding deep subprime paper slid to an all time low during the second quarter, according to Experian’s State of the Automotive Finance Market report released on Thursday. Analysts discovered deep subprime softened to an all-time low of ... [Read More]
Auto/Mate integrates DMS with ProMax
Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, 03:32 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Two service providers perhaps already being leveraged at your store now are working together to help you turn more financed deliveries. This week, Auto/Mate Dealership Systems integrated its dealership management system (DMS) with ProMax, a leading supplier of retail automotive ... [Read More]
Subprime not significant part of Q1 origination uptick
Friday, Aug. 24, 2018, 02:55 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The deceleration of auto-finance origination stopped in this first quarter, according to TransUnion’s newest Industry Insights Report released earlier this week. But the subprime segment didn’t trigger the change. After six consecutive year-over-year declines beginning in third quarter of 2016, ... [Read More]
Why using pool factors can improve analysis subprime ABS credit losses
Friday, Aug. 24, 2018, 02:44 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
S&P Global Ratings recently offered more analysis as to how it examines subprime auto loan asset-backed securities (ABS) issuers in light of what the firm described as an increasingly noticeable trend. The firm explained that certain U.S. subprime auto loan ... [Read More]
Credit Acceptance finalizes $398M asset-backed financing
Friday, Aug. 24, 2018, 02:37 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
On Thursday, Credit Acceptance Corp. announced the completion of a $398.3 million asset-backed non-recourse secured financing. Pursuant to this transaction, the subprime auto finance company said it contributed installment contracts of a net book value of approximately $500.1 million to ... [Read More]
Another tech expert joins C-Level team at defi SOLUTIONS
Friday, Aug. 24, 2018, 02:34 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The c-level executive team at defi SOLUTIONS now has grown by three members so far this year. The latest addition is Jason Zubrick as chief technology officer. Zubrick comes to defi SOLUTIONS with nearly 20 years’ software architecture experience, most ... [Read More]
Trump nomination to lead CFPB approved by Senate committee
Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, 03:25 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
The polar opposite reaction to a one-vote margin of passage within the Senate Banking Committee reinforced why the nomination of Kathy Kraninger by President Trump to be the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau appears to be so ... [Read More]
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