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Industry Elite: Sean Morgan of Westlake Financial
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
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 03:07 PM
Automotive Intelligence Award honoree Tom Kontos of Auto Auction Holdings
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
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 01:56 PM
Industry Elite: Mike Clark Jr. of C&C Cars
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
Friday, Mar. 20, 2026, 03:50 PM
8 personnel moves at Millennium Capital and Recovery
Wednesday, Jun. 27, 2018, 03:43 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Nationwide recovery management and skip tracing firm Millennium Capital and Recovery Corp. made a total of eight personnel moves this week as five executives ascended into new positions, and three managers joined the company. According to a news release, the ... [Read More]
Pre-approvals remain critical to shoppers during their buying journey
Wednesday, Jun. 27, 2018, 03:39 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The auto financing process certainly has evolved significantly for the days of paper faxes, but Equifax emphasized that pre-approvals and credit checks remain a critical component of the automotive shopping process. Equifax unveiled additional analysis in its ongoing study of ... [Read More]
Platinum Auto Finance bolsters resources near Florida base
Tuesday, Jun. 26, 2018, 02:18 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Platinum Auto Finance recently made a series of strategic moves, including an expansion in markets near its base in Florida while closing one of its facilities in North Carolina. The expansion portion of the subprime auto finance company’s strategy involves ... [Read More]
Auto defaults drop to lowest point since last July
Monday, Jun. 25, 2018, 03:21 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Auto defaults dropped last month for the third consecutive month as the May reading now has settled below the 1-percent mark for the fourth year in a row. According to data through May released by S&P Dow Jones Indices and ... [Read More]
Another federal judge calls CFPB unconstitutional
Friday, Jun. 22, 2018, 03:28 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
In a case unrelated to auto finance, a ruling by a New York federal judge released this week found the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be unconstitutionally structured; an action that disagreed with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals stating ... [Read More]
Kennedy: Why aren’t finance companies using traditional methods to fight fraud?
Thursday, Jun. 21, 2018, 03:28 PM
Joel Kennedy, Spinnaker Consulting Group
During the recent National Automotive Finance Association Non-Prime Financing Conference, I led “Fraud Friday” sessions where I presented my taxonomy of fraud and showcased two panels highlighting more of the unique and innovative solutions in the space today. While there ... [Read More]
COMMENTARY: Considering all-in-one pricing for repossession services
Wednesday, Jun. 20, 2018, 04:12 PM
Mike Levison, ALS Resolvion
During the past 12 to 18 months, there has been a real increase in interest by lenders around the idea of establishing “all-in-one pricing” (AiO) with their repossession forwarders. Most of this interest has been spurred by concerns expressed by ... [Read More]
Procon Analytics debuting AI-driven risk mitigation tool at NIADA
Wednesday, Jun. 20, 2018, 03:14 PM
Nick Zulovich
Advantage GPS, a Procon Analytics company that can capture and translate raw data into actionable business intelligence, announced it will debut its recently released AI-artificial intelligence-driven vehicle finance platform this week at the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association Convention in ... [Read More]
Spireon rolls out new features of GoldStar GPS at NIADA
Wednesday, Jun. 20, 2018, 03:13 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This week during the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association’s Expo and Convention, Spireon introduced Quick Locate, the latest feature of its GoldStar GPS solution. The company highlighted Quick Locate can provide dealers and subprime auto finance companies instant visibility to ... [Read More]
Predictable spring helps subprime ABS make improvements
Monday, Jun. 18, 2018, 03:09 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
It’s been a predictable spring for the U.S. auto loan asset-backed securities (ABS) market, and S&P Global Ratings said that’s been a good thing. It was so good, in fact, that one subprime-specific metric made a positive move for the ... [Read More]
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