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PODCAST: Cox Automotive’s Andy Mayers on opportunity in subprime & elsewhere in auto finance
Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, 10:52 AM
CarMax CMO Sarah Lane on Company’s Journey from Used-Car ‘Challenger’ to ‘Leader’
CarMax chief marketing officer Sarah Lane joins the Auto Remarketing Podcast to talk about the company’s new “Wanna Drive?” branding, its omni-channel buying and selling experience, putting the customer in control and how CarMax sets itself apart in an era ... Listen Here
Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, 02:15 PM
Regulation like vacated CARS Rule rises in California
Many dealers likely cheered when the CARS Rule from the Federal Trade Commission was vacated by a federal court at the beginning of the year. But long-time Arizona independent dealer Ace Christian believed it wouldn’t be long before similar regulations ... Listen Here
Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, 02:00 PM
How EVAI became VMS with co-CEO David Prusinski
David Prusinski is now the co-CEO of Vehicle Management Systems (VMS), which previously operated as EVAI. Prusinski shared about how the company arrived at its new brand and what might be ahead for the provider of data analytics and artificial ... Listen Here
Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, 07:40 PM
Considering if subprime is the ‘canary in the coalmine’
Thursday, Apr. 20, 2017, 02:19 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Financial advising firm UBS used the grim illustration of the “canary in the coalmine” at the beginning of a report it released this week involving the subprime auto finance space. To recap, that illustration stems from miners using caged canaries ... [Read More]
Efforts by Equifax & GM Financial to improve finance knowledge
Tuesday, Apr. 18, 2017, 02:15 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
A recent Equifax survey indicated most consumers who participated do not place themselves at the head of the class when it comes to financial literacy. Auto finance companies such as General Motors Financial are putting initiatives in motion to coincide ... [Read More]
PointPredictive enhances DealerTrace to combat fraud
Tuesday, Apr. 18, 2017, 02:13 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
PointPredictive recently announced the general availability of an enhanced version of DealerTrace, a comprehensive consortium-based analytic solution designed to provide auto finance companies with a dealer-level, holistic view of fraud and early payment default risk. The firm explained this solution ... [Read More]
6 FTC initiatives meant to eliminate wasteful regulations
Tuesday, Apr. 18, 2017, 02:12 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Along with planning a workshop to examine financial issues and scams that can affect military consumers, the Federal Trade Commission said this week it is moving “aggressively” to implement presidential directives aimed at eliminating wasteful, unnecessary regulations and processes. Acting ... [Read More]
5 changes toward the Consumer Financial Opportunity Agency
Monday, Apr. 17, 2017, 02:49 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Last summer, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, the Texas Republican who also is the U.S. House Financial Services Committee chairman, introduced a plan he described as a way to replace the Dodd-Frank Act and promote economic growth. This spring, the outspoken critic ... [Read More]
Another view of vehicle values & recovery rates
Thursday, Apr. 13, 2017, 02:32 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Cox Automotive chief economist Tom Webb cautioned watchers of the auto ABS market as well as managers who compute severity of loss at finance companies. Webb insisted that softening wholesale values and what vehicles might be fetching at the auction ... [Read More]
How better data can lead to better lending decisions
Thursday, Apr. 13, 2017, 02:12 PM
Mark Gleason, defi SOLUTIONS
Financial technology and lending decisions are built on data. Lenders can buy data in the form of reports, statistics and bits of information about consumers and their buying habits from hundreds of companies and accumulate mountains of their own new ... [Read More]
Few signs industry is backing off record financing pace
Thursday, Apr. 13, 2017, 02:08 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The latest report generated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York declared that 2016 officially represented the year of the highest auto finance originations — at least in the 18-year history of the data officials obtained from Equifax. And ... [Read More]
GWC Warranty introduces improved coverage lookup tool
Wednesday, Apr. 12, 2017, 01:37 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
GWC Warranty, a provider of used-vehicle service contracts and related finance and insurance products sold through dealers, recently improved its online coverage lookup tool to better assist drivers in obtaining critical vehicle service contract information. As part of GWC Warranty’s ... [Read More]
AFSA again addresses burden CFPB places on small operations
Wednesday, Apr. 12, 2017, 01:35 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
While a former Department of the Treasury official insisted the Dodd-Frank Act resulted in an economy “far stronger and more resilient today than it was preceding the crisis,” American Financial Services Association executive vice president Bill Himpler addressed the Consumer ... [Read More]
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