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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

Industry Elite: Grace Huang of Cox Automotive

Thursday, Mar. 19, 2026, 04:49 PM

Kicking off our podcasts with the inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honorees is a conversation with Grace Huang, president of Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions. Huang talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about her journey from business consultant ... Listen Here

Equifax rolls out tool to help with CECL compliance

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Wednesday, Sep. 5, 2018, 03:53 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Equifax is looking to help banks navigate one of the most complicated accounting changes ever instituted. On Wednesday, Equifax unveiled its SmartReserve offering to help banks and financial institutions registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission meet the new Current Expected ... [Read More]

Edmunds spots upticks in August used-vehicle financing metrics

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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]

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