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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

Why CPS is going through a ‘painful process’

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Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, 08:07 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Consumer Portfolio Services chairman and chief executive officer Brad Bradley described how the subprime finance company is going through what he called a “painful process.” While the company’s originations are down from last year, its delinquencies didn’t spike to alarming ... [Read More]

New credit tool from CoreLogic & Equifax aims to enhance dealers’ leads

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Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, 02:30 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Both consumers and dealers likely want to know potential buyers’ credit standing in order to facilitate delivery, and a new product fueled by CoreLogic and Equifax rolled out on Wednesday aims to accomplish that objective. Analytics and data-enabled solutions provider ... [Read More]

700Credit to offer instant income and employment verification solution

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Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, 02:28 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
With contract holders’ ability to pay paramount, 700Credit now is offering Income PreCheck, an instant income and employment verification solution that can help dealerships verify buyers' stated income and employment. The verification is derived by accessing The Work Number, a ... [Read More]

LenderLive broadens compliance solutions for vehicle finance

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Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, 04:23 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
LenderLive Services, a division of LenderLive Holdings, announced on Tuesday that it will now provide expanded compliance services through a new line of business: LenderLive Compliance Solutions. The company highlighted the new entity will offer both bundled and a la ... [Read More]

Down payments for used & new models on the rise

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Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, 03:09 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
New auto finance analysis from Edmunds shows increases in term length and monthly payments. These metrics have made headlines for some time now as potential buyers focus on what they can fit into their budgets. But Edmunds also noticed an increase ... [Read More]

MVTRAC secures financial resources from Bison Capital

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Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, 03:06 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
License plate recognition (LPR) software and data solutions provider MVTRAC on Tuesday announced the closing of growth recapitalization of the company with Bison Capital Asset Management along with changes to its top leadership structure. MVTRAC shared Bison Capital’s investment will allow ... [Read More]

2015 subprime vintage suffers losses not seen since 2005

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Monday, Jul. 31, 2017, 03:20 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
With average vehicle installment contract terms nearly at 70 months and outstanding auto asset backed security issuance at the highest level in 14 years, the latest update from Fitch Ratings also pinpointed where the weakest vintage in subprime financing appears ... [Read More]

3 more states added to Reynolds’ LAW F&I Library

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Monday, Jul. 31, 2017, 03:18 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Now Reynolds and Reynolds only has seven states to go to cover all of the U.S. with resources from its LAW F&I Library — a comprehensive catalog of standardized, legally reviewed finance and insurance (F&I) documents for franchised dealers. Reynolds ... [Read More]

Wells Fargo to distribute $80M in refunds over insurance issue

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Friday, Jul. 28, 2017, 02:28 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Arriving within two weeks of reporting its auto financing originations dropped 45 percent year-over-year, Wells Fargo late on Thursday announced a plan to remediate auto finance customers of Wells Fargo Dealers Services who may have been financially harmed due to ... [Read More]

Fed passes again on interest rate rise

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Thursday, Jul. 27, 2017, 02:34 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Voting unanimously, all nine members of the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee agreed to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 1 to 1.25 percent during their meeting this week. First Franklin Financial Services projected when ... [Read More]
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