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SPONSORED EPISODE: Rethinking vehicle-protection plans for today’s wide inventory mix with GWC Warranty
Used-car inventory on dealer lots nowadays can range from older, higher-mileage vehicles to EVs, lifted trucks, and modified vehicles. The result is dealers are also having to change the vehicle-protection conversations with customers. In this special sponsored episode of the ... Listen Here
Recapping credit scores & other trends in auto finance with Shams Blanc of FICO
Shams Blanc, head of auto scores at FICO, made another appearance on the Auto Remarketing Podcast to elaborate more about the fall edition of the FICO Score Credit Insights report. Along with recapping what’s going on in auto finance, Blanc ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: Greenville Auto Auction Celebrates 16 Years—A look back and a look ahead
On this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Bill Zadeits visits with Billy Willis and Kevin Stallings of Greenville Auto Auction. The auction celebrates 16 years in early September, and the guys talk about the history of the sale, ... Listen Here
Fed keeps interest rates steady
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
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
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
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
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
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
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]
ARA and TFA to host webinar to share plans for new association
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
At the beginning of October, the American Recovery Association (ARA) and Time Finance Adjusters (TFA) announced plans to form one organization that would launch in January. During a free webinar, the two organizations will present more details of the new ... [Read More]
PAR completes year-long task, unveils Platinum Compliance portal
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Lisa Scott took charge of PAR North America (PAR) last August with a specific objective near the top of her agenda as she began to oversee this segment of KAR Auction Services. “One of my goals was to enhance the ... [Read More]
Westlake Financial Services adopts PointPredictive Auto Fraud Manager
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Westlake Financial Services is taking additional steps to shield itself from potential fraud. On Tuesday, PointPredictive, the San Diego-based machine learning company, announced that Westlake is its newest auto-finance client. As part of this relationship, Westlake will use the company’s ... [Read More]
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