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Monday, Jun. 29, 2026, 03:44 PM

Continuing the discussions from the Live Stage at Canada’s Used Car Week, senior editor Joe Overby connects with Ted Berlovich, director of wholesale at online used-car retailer Clutch. Berlovich explained the company’s wholesale process, how the company handles some of ... Listen Here

United Car Dealers Association Leaders Join CUCW Live Stage

Thursday, Jun. 25, 2026, 07:09 PM

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

Blair Earle of IAA Canada

Thursday, Jun. 25, 2026, 06:59 PM

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

Acquisition pushes Primeritus deeper into powersports space

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Tuesday, Jul. 3, 2018, 02:50 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Primeritus Financial Services is looking to be the forwarding company of choice for finance companies that have more than just cars and trucks in their portfolio. Primeritus recently announced the acquisition of Capital Recovery Group (CRG). Based in Tucson, Ariz., ... [Read More]

Former Assurant, GE exec joins AUL as CFO

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Monday, Jul. 2, 2018, 02:34 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

AUL Corp. president and chief executive officer Jimmy Atkinson continued to bolster the company’s top management team. The administrator of vehicle service contracts recently appointed David Chang to the position of chief financial officer. Chang, who brings more than 20 ... [Read More]

PointPredictive chooses FICO expert to lead artificial intelligence scoring team

new hire

Monday, Jul. 2, 2018, 02:33 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

PointPredictive recently added to its roster of experts tasked with helping auto finance companies combat fraud and other risks to their operations. PointPredictive announced that Mike Kennedy has joined the company as vice president of analytics to spearhead the growing ... [Read More]

S&P Global Ratings spots 1990s flashback in subprime ABS space

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Thursday, Jun. 28, 2018, 03:06 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

In some circles, 1990s fashion is back in style nowadays, and S&P Global Ratings is seeing trends within the subprime auto ABS market that resemble the time when Umbro shorts, the discman and tight-rolled pantlegs became popular. According to a ... [Read More]

8 personnel moves at Millennium Capital and Recovery

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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]

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