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Industry Elite: Sean Morgan of Westlake Financial

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Automotive Intelligence Award honoree Tom Kontos of Auto Auction Holdings

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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

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Location Services pays DRN $325K to settle non-compete case with DigitalDog Auto Recovery

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Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, 04:56 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

AI and data analytics company Digital Recognition Network (DRN) announced on Thursday that rather than go to trial on the issue of damages, Location Services and DRN have agreed on a settlement after Federal Court ruled in DRN’s favor. Location ... [Read More]

Primeritus names new chief executive

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Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, 03:32 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

As Used Car Week kicked off this Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz., Primeritus Financial Services announced a new chief executive officer. Mike Thomas has been named CEO, and the move is effective immediately. Thomas succeeds Scott Peters in the position, who joined ... [Read More]

KAR ramps up recovery services with purchase of Clearplan

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Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, 02:39 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

KAR Auction Services today announced it has boosted its asset recovery capabilities with the purchase of Clearplan. Based in Reno, Nev., Clearplan is a digital platform for recovery agents, drivers, forwarders and lenders that acts as a centralized, mobile “cloud-based ... [Read More]

Fed keeps interest rates steady

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Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, 03:17 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

There’s no doubt about the Federal Reserve’s decision revealed this week to leave interest rates as they are at least for the time being. By a unanimous vote, the Federal Open Market Committee decided to maintain the target range for ... [Read More]

How Location Services is blending diverse backgrounds into one recovery team

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Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, 02:29 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

What Locations Services believes is the recipe for success in the repossession and recovery industries includes taking executives from an array of well-known companies such as Ally Financial, PAR North America and Remarketing of America and fueling them with the ... [Read More]

Top 100 markets where millennials carry most auto debt

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Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, 09:15 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

This week, LendingTree released its study on where millennials owe the most on their financed vehicles. And as they say, everything is bigger in Texas. The results, ranked by median balance, showed where millennials are the most and least burdened ... [Read More]

Consolidated Asset Recovery Systems and DRN enhance working relationship

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Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, 04:55 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Two prominent industry names — Consolidated Asset Recovery Systems and Digital Recognition Network (DRN) — now are working even closer together. The two companies that will each have prominent appearances during Repo Con at Used Car Week 2018 announced on ... [Read More]

AGORA unveils validation report for seasoned contracts

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Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, 05:04 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

AGORA Data is responding to the need for accurate information involving seasoned vehicle installment contracts. On Monday, the secondary loan marketplace announced what that company believes is the release of the first-ever loan validation report for seasoned loans. AGORA’s proprietary ... [Read More]

Secure Collateral Management to leverage MBSi’s compliance management system

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Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, 05:02 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Secure Collateral Management already announced the skip-tracing and collateral recovery provider was moving into a new headquarters. And then Monday, Secure Collateral Management and MBSi Corp. — a member of the Automotive Intelligence Council and provider of repossession assignment software ... [Read More]

New-model prices keep rising as average APR hits highest point in 9 years

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Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, 02:44 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Finance companies continue to fill and expand their portfolios, especially when buying paper attached to a new vehicle that’s becoming more difficult for consumers to afford as transaction prices and interest rates keep climbing. October data shared by Edmunds and ... [Read More]

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