United Car Dealers Association Leaders Join CUCW Live Stage
Next up on our series of Auto Remarketing Podcast episodes from Live Stage at Canada’s Used Car Week is a conversation with United Car Dealers Association leaders Jim Hamilton, Christy Fines and John Tangreda. They talk with Cherokee Media Group ... Listen Here
Thursday, Jun. 25, 2026, 07:09 PM
Blair Earle of IAA Canada
Kicking off our series of Auto Remarketing Podcast episodes from the Live Stage at Canada’s Used Car Week is a conversation with Blair Earle, who is managing director at IAA Canada. Earle and Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby ... Listen Here
Thursday, Jun. 25, 2026, 06:59 PM
SPONSORED EPISODE: Bracing for more than ‘portfolio stress’ with John Elias of Allied Solutions
John Elias, sales specialist in auto finance business development with Allied Solutions, acknowledged lenders might be experiencing more than just “portfolio stress” since delinquencies, insurance costs, negative equity, and repossessions are all intensifying at the same time. Elias, who was ... Listen Here
Monday, Jun. 22, 2026, 07:11 PM
What used-car financing looked like in November
Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, 03:29 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The annual percentage rate on used-car financing in November went up more than a percentage point from a year ago, and the average amount financed climbed more than $500. That’s according to the latest auto finance data from Edmunds, as ... [Read More]
CFPB director nominee now at final Senate vote
Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, 03:29 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The process for establishing Kathleen Kraninger as the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau took another sharply, politically divided step forward on Thursday as the Senate barely approved invoking cloture to end debate about her nomination. Composition of ... [Read More]
LAUNCHER.SOLUTIONS and VinAudit.com finalize integration
Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, 03:25 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Two companies are collaborating for enhanced subprime underwriting at a lower cost. This week, LAUNCHER.SOLUTIONS, a technology provider specializing in subprime originations, announced a strategic integration partnership with VinAudit.com aimed at reducing costs incurred by subprime finance companies for vehicle ... [Read More]
Dozen findings from study about consumer anxiety over bills
Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, 03:26 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
More evidence and commentary as to why the 30-day or 60-day delinquency rates connected with your portfolio might be at their current levels arrived this week. And consumer study findings coincided with the Federal Reserve chairman reiterating “vulnerabilities” within the ... [Read More]
ANALYSIS: When does a principal business purpose amount to debt collection under the FDCPA?
Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, 05:26 PM
Jade Sipes, Baker Donelson
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act prohibits debt collectors from engaging in abusive debt collection practices. To be liable under the Act, however, the defendant must be a debt collector. And there are two ways that a defendant can qualify ... [Read More]
Spireon gains 30th US patent
Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, 03:25 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
It’s like the federal government gave Spireon a holiday present. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Spireon a patent for its technology approach to managing an automotive dealership’s vehicle inventory by pairing a tracking device to a vehicle. ... [Read More]
4 possible ways to bring some financing cheer to your dealership
Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, 03:22 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Black Friday and Cyber Monday might have already passed, but GWC Warranty contends that dealerships still can leverage consumers’ enthusiasm for spending to rake in some retail revenue via their finance departments. “There are two ways to look at the holiday ... [Read More]
Explaining implications of SCUSA’s nearly $12M settlement with CFPB
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018, 03:15 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
FNI Inc. president David Bafumo spent part of his Thanksgiving holiday dissecting the potential pitfalls that resulted in Santander Consumer USA reaching a settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over a GAP product. Two days before the country carved ... [Read More]
FTC maintains stance on privacy while fostering innovation
Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, 02:01 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Federal Trade Commission called for a balanced approach that protects both consumer privacy and innovation in a comment submitted to the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) as part of that agency’s consumer privacy proceeding. In ... [Read More]
Consolidated Asset Recovery Systems adds former Del Mar executive
Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, 01:55 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
On the heels of landing a trio of clients as well as an enhanced relationship with Digital Recognition Network (DRN), Consolidated Asset Recovery Systems also added to its executive team. Consolidated recently announced that it has named Jeff Rau as ... [Read More]
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