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Cutting keys & cutting costs during repossessions and recoveries
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:42 PM
Drawing standing-room-only attendance in the second-largest setting at Used Car Week 2025, Ryan Miller led a six-executive panel session that focused on one of the most complex challenges in all of repossessions and recoveries. Now available through this episode of ... Listen Here
Four experts on automotive & the economy
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:39 PM
Used Car Week 2025 again brought together experts who can explain which parts of the economy impact automotive most. This year’s event included views from Laura Wehunt of Black Book, Tim Gill of the American Financial Services Association, T.J. Cox ... Listen Here
Sponsored Episode: Winning Trade-Ins and Trust – Navigating Today’s Affordability Challenges
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 03:15 PM
Affordability challenges are reshaping the automotive landscape—vehicle prices and payments are at all-time highs and negative equity is on the rise. In this episode, Micah Tindor offers a data-driven conversation with real-world strategies around acquisition tactics and long-term profitability to ... Listen Here

TagRail integrates with Market Scan and F&I Express to enhance mobile shopping

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Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, 04:55 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
TagRail recently finalized the integration of Market Scan and F&I Express services into its new digital retail platform. Now TagRail’s platform can provide shoppers a transactional-specific, penny-accurate vehicle finance and aftermarket product check-out and delivery experience from their living room ... [Read More]

Nominations now welcomed for The CEO Issue 2018

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Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, 04:17 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
It’s time again when SubPrime Auto Finance News engages with the industry for one of our most successful annual projects — "The CEO Issue." In an ongoing effort to recognize the chief executive officers who are flourishing in today’s competitive ... [Read More]

BB&T Dealer Financial Services to abandon flat fees

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Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, 05:12 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
With regulators such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issuing official requests for information about the implications of rules, investigations and enforcement actions, a sterling example might have arrived from BB&T Dealer Financial Services. In a direct message to SubPrime ... [Read More]

Expecting growth, Westlake tops $1B with latest securitization

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Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, 03:18 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
After approaching the $1 billion securitization threshold last summer, Westlake Financial Services surpassed the mark, according to an announcement shared earlier this week. Westlake issued its largest asset-backed securitization (ABS) of $1 billion backed by approximately $1.1 billion of automotive ... [Read More]

BillingTree makes 7 executive moves

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Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, 03:16 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Payment technology provider BillingTree looked to strengthen its company leadership to serve clients within five crucial markets, including auto financing. This week, the company announced the extension of its C-level team and made five key senior vertical industry appointments as ... [Read More]

Now CFPB wants feedback on enforcement process

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Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, 03:50 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Along with naming a chief of staff who formerly served the chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Mick Mulvaney is continuing to put his stamp on how the regulator operates. The CFPB issued ... [Read More]

NARS 2018 to include special repo agency owner forum

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Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018, 07:53 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
It is likely agents discuss their successes and challenges during the networking times and other activities associated with North American Repossessors Summit (NARS) that’s now been conducted for a decade. But now organizers of the industry event hosted by the ... [Read More]

Dissecting how inflation could ripple into automotive space

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Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018, 03:56 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Cox Automotive senior economist Charlie Chesbrough explained the challenge facing the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) at the Federal Reserve. Chesbrough articulated how the implications might not impact dealership turns and finance company originations immediately, but he cautioned that trends ... [Read More]

AUL Corp. surpasses 2M contracts and adds to sales team

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Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018, 03:51 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
It took AUL Corp. 21 years to reach 1 million vehicle services contracts. According to a new release shared this week, the VSC provider doubled that figure seven years later. AUL president and chief executive officer Jimmy Atkinson announced the ... [Read More]

2 ways longer terms impacted Credit Acceptance in Q4

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Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, 04:25 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Stretching terms forced Credit Acceptance to adjust its expectations for future cash flows. But increasing contract length to the longest average in company history perhaps helped the finance provider turn around a string of declines in the number originations from ... [Read More]
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