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Industry Elite: Sean Morgan of Westlake Financial
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 03:07 PM
Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Sean Morgan, who is executive vice president of finance and operations at Westlake Financial. Morgan talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby ... Listen Here
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

Examining ‘appetite’ for subprime and pinpointing 10 brands with highest market penetration

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Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, 04:13 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
With Cox Automotive experts suspecting that “credit will likely tighten as the appetite for subprime declines,” the company also shared the makes that have the largest penetration of subprime retail installment contracts and vehicle leases so far this year. Cox ... [Read More]

3 bureaus respond as lawmakers seek credit-reporting improvements

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Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, 03:51 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Top executives from Equifax, Experian and TransUnion all appeared on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a hearing orchestrated by the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, which is seeking revamps to how credit reporting is completed. And one of the companies ... [Read More]

KBRA examines impact of extensions on subprime ABS

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Monday, Feb. 25, 2019, 03:46 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Finance companies sometimes give grace to contract holders in hopes the individual can get back on the payment track since it’s potentially much more lucrative than having to go through the repossession and recovery processes. Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) released ... [Read More]

January auto defaults show improvements

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Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, 03:55 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
To mimic the famous Mark Twain quip, perhaps reports about the drastic demise of the auto finance industry are greatly exaggerated. As some commentators latched onto delinquency metrics shared recently by the Federal Reserve Bank of the New York, auto ... [Read More]

2 expectations as TransUnion releases latest auto finance report

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Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, 04:42 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
TransUnion senior vice president and automotive business leader Brian Landau sees used-vehicle financing continuing to be one of the primary ingredients filling provider portfolios for the rest of the year, especially after reviewing the latest auto data contained in TransUnion’s ... [Read More]

Secure Collateral Management enters forwarding space

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Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, 02:46 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Just a few months after moving into a new corporate headquarters, Secure Collateral Management (SCM) is advancing beyond being only a skip-tracing provider and into being a forwarding company. In a message sent to SubPrime Auto Finance News on Tuesday, ... [Read More]

Report analyzes changes in US subprime auto ABS since Great Recession

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Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, 02:42 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
S&P Global Ratings published a report on Friday, examining adjustments in auto-related asset-backed securities (ABS) transactions since the Great Recession. The 16-page endeavor took a special look at the subprime market, explaining that speculative-grade issuance growth and weaker structural protections ... [Read More]

NAFCU looks to be excluded from CECL requirements

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Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, 04:36 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The National Association of Federally Insured Credit Unions (NAFCU) recently reiterated its position regarding a significant accounting change coming later this year. To recap, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is looking to ensure that financial institutions have solid measures ... [Read More]

KBRA sees mixed ABS movement in January

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Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, 02:25 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This week, Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) released its auto loan indices for of January, highlighting that credit performance was mixed across securitized auto loan pools. Analysts noted that annualized net losses in KBRA’s Prime Auto Loan Index for January ... [Read More]

SCUSA and Chrysler Capital give paperless customers a chance to win $10K

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Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, 02:23 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Santander Consumer USA and Chrysler Capital are set to give away some valuable paper in hopes of getting more customers in their portfolios to adopt its paperless billing option. This month, Santander Consumer USA and Chrysler Capital rolled out a ... [Read More]

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