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Industry Elite: Sean Morgan of Westlake Financial
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 03:07 PM
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
Automotive Intelligence Award honoree Tom Kontos of Auto Auction Holdings
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 01:56 PM
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
Industry Elite: Mike Clark Jr. of C&C Cars
Friday, Mar. 20, 2026, 03:50 PM
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

UPDATED: Pence’s tiebreaking Senate vote halts CFPB’s arbitration rule

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Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, 12:15 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
While the agency director expressed his disappointment, dealerships and auto finance companies can breathe a big sigh of relief; Congress has stopped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s arbitration rule. With Vice President Pence casting the deciding vote late on Tuesday ... [Read More]

FactorTrust rolls out credit monitoring solution

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Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, 12:20 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Your customers now have another option to watch for activity associated with their credit file. On Tuesday, Used Car Week sponsor FactorTrust launched what’s being dubbed FactorTrust Credit Monitoring, a service that can observe activity within the FactorTrust credit file. ... [Read More]

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4 suggestions to combat cyberattacks

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Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, 03:23 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
David Kennedy of First Credit Resources, who is the current president of the American Recovery Association and one of the speakers on tap for Used Car Week, offered four suggestions for what protective moves repossession agencies, another other service providers, should ... [Read More]

White Clarke Group unveils global cloud platform

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Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, 03:21 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
On Monday, White Clarke Group announced the release of a new fully cloud-hosted version of its CALMS complete lifecycle credit processing and administration platform for the automotive, consumer and equipment finance industry via its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). ... [Read More]

2 primary reasons why social media is still not viable for underwriting

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Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, 03:20 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
No doubt, finance companies are looking for whatever reliable piece of information they can examine while they’re first deciding if they should make an auto finance offer to a potential vehicle buyer and then exploring what terms and down payment ... [Read More]

Auto defaults jump by 10 basis points in September

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Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017, 09:19 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Auto defaults continued their cyclical move higher in September, crossing the 1-percent threshold and landing at nearly the highest spot in three years. The data through September reviewed by S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian showed that auto finance defaults ... [Read More]

Tommy Moore Jr.: Subprime Auto Finance Executive of the Year

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Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017, 08:52 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Tommy Moore Jr. initially thought what sprouted to be First Investors Financial Services would just be a sideline business in auto finance. He was concentrated on another banking career in Houston at the time, focused on retail and commercial lending. ... [Read More]

Davis & Gilbert experts finds 4 signs of subprime auto ABS market vulnerability

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Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, 02:51 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
As S&P Global Ratings noticed collateral performance in the U.S. subprime auto loan asset-backed securities (ABS) market deteriorated moderately on a sequential basis in August, Davis & Gilbert’s Insolvency, Creditors’ Rights & Financial Products Practice Group fears investors could be ... [Read More]

UPDATED: Verifacto partners with Berkshire Risk Services to monitor CPI coverage

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Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, 02:48 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Risk management technology provider Verifacto finalized a partnership with Berkshire Risk Services, a collateral protection insurance (CPI) company for dealers and auto finance companies. Through the partnership with Berkshire Risk Services, Verifacto — one of the new exhibitors coming to ... [Read More]

DIMONT brings in 3 new experienced executives

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Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, 02:11 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
DIMONT is coming to Used Car Week armed with three additional experienced executives within its workforce. This week, DIMONT, one of the largest providers of insurance claims adjusting and collateral loss mitigation services, announced the addition of three industry experts ... [Read More]

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