Your service drive is filled with loyal customers who trust your dealership and are physically in your store, yet most...
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PODCAST: Carleton’s Tim Yalich on how critical accurate payment information is to today’s car shoppers
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Industry Elite: Sean Morgan of Westlake Financial
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
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 03:07 PM
Automotive Intelligence Award honoree Tom Kontos of Auto Auction Holdings
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
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 01:56 PM
Industry Elite: Mike Clark Jr. of C&C Cars
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
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New York AG returns to making dealer settlements over F&I misdeeds
Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, 02:30 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
After taking a trio of actions involving more than two dozen dealerships in the span of about a year, New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman wielded his enforcement powers again this week in association with F&I activities. Schneiderman announced a ... [Read More]
Using math and time to overcome VSC objections
Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, 02:21 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The training team at GWC Warranty acknowledged even the best F&I presentations are oftentimes countered with an objection over the added monthly cost of a vehicle service contract. The company also understands how dealers emphasize that overcoming this common customer ... [Read More]
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A Buyer’s Guide for Independent Dealer, BHPH, and Auto Finance Leaders Reducing Risk, Unlocking Opportunity Independent dealers and finance companies...
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Used Car Turn Vendor Management Checklist
Vehicles touch multiple vendors before they ever hit the lot, and when approvals, communication, and invoices are scattered, delays are...
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Pennsylvania creates CFPB-like unit within AG’s office
Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, 04:13 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
While some lawmakers on Capitol Hill continue to work toward a major restructuring or perhaps even a complete dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, one of the leaders of the American Recovery Association cautioned the industry about developments this ... [Read More]
Q2 delinquencies rise while industry is ‘recalibrating’
Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, 02:53 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Stemming from subprime financing activity, TransUnion’s Q2 Industry Insights Report showed the magnitude of diminishing originations and rising delinquencies. Or as Brian Landau, senior vice president and automotive business leader for TransUnion, explained it to SubPrime Auto Finance News this ... [Read More]
EFG Companies unveils tool so dealers can self-adjudicate claims
Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, 02:51 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This week, EFG Companies launched what it’s calling EFG Express Claims, one of the industry’s first claims automation systems that can enable dealerships to self-adjudicate claims and receive automatic approvals. The company explained EFG Express Claims can automate the claims ... [Read More]
COMMENTARY: Watching for signs of commercial-side weakness
Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, 03:12 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
We often report on the delinquency rates of vehicle installment contracts held by consumers. Later this week, TransUnion plans to share its second-quarter data with SubPrime Auto Finance News. But what about the repayment activity by dealerships associated with the ... [Read More]
KPA buys Automotive Compliance Consultants
Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, 01:58 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Automotive Compliance Consultants — listed among the SubPrime 175 published by SubPrime Auto Finance News as well as the Power 300 published in Auto Remarketing — has a new owner, according to a news release distributed on Tuesday. KPA Services, ... [Read More]
J.D. Power’s latest dealer study underscores importance of underwriting department
Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, 03:10 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Answering questions such as "What's needed to complete this customer's financing?" appears to be a main theme of which finance companies scored well in the J.D. Power 2017 U.S. Dealer Financing Satisfaction Study and which ones did not. Analysts determined great ... [Read More]
Capital One closes $23M floor plan revolver with Missouri dealer
Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, 03:07 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
On Monday Capital One announced that the finance company provided a $23 million floorplan line of credit to Johnny Londoff Chevrolet, a second-generation family owned dealership that has been in business for more than 60 years in Florissant, Mo., a ... [Read More]
CARite taps Westlake for installment contract financing
Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, 02:28 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
A dealership chain specializing in subprime leasing now has a captive-like relationship with one of the market’s larger finance companies to serve customers who would rather make a purchase through a vehicle installment contract. On Thursday, Westlake Financial Services and ... [Read More]
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