2025 Loss Mitigation Executive of the Year: Craig Paterson of GM Financial
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, 02:23 PM
PODCAST: Used Car Week Hall of Famer Becky Igo of Allied Solutions
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, 10:48 AM
2025 Repossession Agent of the Year: Phil Hanks of Connect 1 Recovery
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, 10:34 AM
Dissecting evolving credit scores with Shams Blanc of FICO
As much as auto-finance underwriting has become sophisticated, a potential starting point to determine if the applicant will be offered an installment contract is the credit score. Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, described the ... Listen Here
Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, 03:34 PM
Used Car Week Hall of Famer Jerry Kroshus of Location Services
Next up on our podcast series with 2025 Used Car Week Hall of Fame inductees is a conversation with Jerry Kroshus, who is CEO of Location Services. Cherokee Media President Bill Zadeits talks with Kroshus about his career journey in ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, 04:19 PM
Used Car Week Hall of Famer Kathy Ruble of Ally
Next up on our podcast series with 2025 Used Car Week Hall of Fame inductees, we catch up with Kathy Ruble, who is executive director of marketing, dealer financial services and communications at Ally. Ruble has been the longtime moderator ... Listen Here
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, 07:52 PM
ARA and TFA set to form one repossession association
Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, 02:04 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Two of the largest repossession organizations are set to become one group. According to an announcement sent to SubPrime Auto Finance News on Tuesday morning, the American Recovery Association (ARA) and Time Finance Adjusters (TFA) are joining together. The statement ... [Read More]
Prestige Financial Services deploys artificial intelligence for subprime underwriting
Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, 02:57 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
When roughly 70 percent of its applications resulted in turn downs, Prestige Financial Services responded by taking a significant step toward using machines instead of human manpower to examine applications and finalize underwriting. ZestFinance, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) software ... [Read More]
Another honor for president of Millennium Capital and Recovery
Friday, Sep. 28, 2018, 03:10 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
One of the presenting sponsors of Used Car Week 2018 recently collected another accolade. Jayne Bronchetti, president of Millennium Capital and Recovery Corp., has been named one of Profiles in Diversity Journal’s Women Worth Watching for 2018 based on her ... [Read More]
Another Fed rate uptick pushes affordability limits
Thursday, Sep. 27, 2018, 03:16 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
The Federal Open Market Committee at the Federal Reserve voted unanimously to push the target range for the federal funds rate to 2 percent to 2.25 percent. Wednesday’s development marked the fourth rate hike this year, building expectations for at least ... [Read More]
Consumer confidence approaches nearly 20-year high
Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2018, 03:53 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Perhaps individuals not only are in position to take on automotive debt, but they also have sureness regarding the wherewithal to maintain monthly payments on their retail installment sales contracts. In fact, a leading indictor hasn’t been this high in ... [Read More]
SNAAC partners with Primeritus Financial Services
Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2018, 01:52 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Security National Automotive Acceptance Co. (SNAAC), a non-prime auto finance company, and Primeritus Financial Services, a provider of recovery management, skip-tracing, and remarketing services to the auto finance industry, announced their collaborative partnership on Tuesday. Primeritus will provide SNAAC its ... [Read More]
FTC explains new law involving credit freezes and fraud alerts
Monday, Sep. 24, 2018, 03:32 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Federal Trade Commission announced consumers — especially individuals who are trying to repair their credit profiles and are concerned about identity theft or data breaches — can freeze their credit and place one-year fraud alerts for free. Under the ... [Read More]
DIMONT to leverage Black Book history-adjusted valuations during claims process
Monday, Sep. 24, 2018, 03:30 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Coming on the heels of establishing a relationship with defi SOLUTIONS, Black Book also announced a development involving its history adjusted valuations (HAV) data and resources being integrated with DIMONT, one of the largest providers of insurance claims adjusting and ... [Read More]
3 factors that influence employee compensation most
Thursday, Sep. 20, 2018, 02:20 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Automotive Personnel founder and chief executive officer Don Jasensky tackled one of the most challenging work elements facing both employers and employees — financial compensation. Jasensky, who established his human resources firm in 1989, pinpointed what he believes are three ... [Read More]
FTC shuts down websites selling fake pay stubs, other documents
Wednesday, Sep. 19, 2018, 03:23 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Here is some good news for auto finance companies involving ongoing concern about fraudulent paper ending up in their portfolios. The operators of websites that sold fake documents used to facilitate identity theft and other frauds have agreed to permanently ... [Read More]
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