Your service drive is filled with loyal customers who trust your dealership and are physically in your store, yet most...
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Experts see Middle East conflict making current car & credit markets even more challenging
Tuesday, Mar. 24, 2026, 10:27 AM
With additional insight about affordability, FICO watches averages credit scores tick lower again
Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2026, 11:27 AM
PODCAST: Industry Elite honoree Jennifer Turnage on why accurate financial information can make or break any business
Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2026, 01:05 PM
Industry Elite honoree Jennifer Turnage on why accurate financial information can make or break any business
Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Jennifer Turnage, who is chief executive officer of Primeritus Financial Services. Turnage talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Nick Zulovich about the importance ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2026, 05:01 PM
Industry Elite honoree Kelly Wyatt on 25-year career with GM Financial
Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Kelly Wyatt, who is chief digital officer with GM Financial. Wyatt shares a conversation with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Nick Zulovich about being ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2026, 04:43 PM
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
NextGear Capital closes $400M securitization
Monday, May. 8, 2017, 07:34 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
NextGear Capital recently announced that the NextGear Floorplan Master Owner Trust successfully completed the sale of $400 million of privately placed 144A Asset-Backed Notes, Series 2017-1. Officials indicated the company’s sixth successful securitization transaction, which further broadens the investor base, ... [Read More]
Mixed assessment of latest House regulatory move
Monday, May. 8, 2017, 03:28 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
While plenty of attention went toward the U.S. House voting major changes involving healthcare last week, the House Financial Services Committee passed the Financial CHOICE Act 2.0 — the measure that would greatly modify the Dodd-Frank Act and the Consumer ... [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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Vehicles touch multiple vendors before they ever hit the lot, and when approvals, communication, and invoices are scattered, delays are...
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4 findings from FactorTrust’s latest Underbanked Index
Wednesday, May. 3, 2017, 10:58 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
On Wednesday, FactorTrust released its newest Underbanked Index, highlighting quarterly insights of the earning, spending and living habits of underbanked consumers — what the firm contends is a $105 billion untapped market. The index highlighted the demographic characteristics, credentials and ... [Read More]
13 finance companies assemble to talk fraud
Tuesday, May. 2, 2017, 11:53 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Machine learning and fraud solutions provider PointPredictive recently orchestrated a gathering of six of the nation’s Top 10 and nine of the nation’s Top 20 aimed at tackling the problem of auto finance fraud through collaboration. As a part of ... [Read More]
Compliance diary post No. 3: Enjoying a successful journey
Tuesday, May. 2, 2017, 11:51 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
It’s been a little while since I’ve made an entry into my diary about navigating through the rigors of the National Automotive Finance Association’s Consumer Credit Compliance Certification Program. I’m happy to report I can see the certification summit. While ... [Read More]
7 components when hiring terrific candidates
Monday, May. 1, 2017, 06:45 PM
Don Jasensky, Automotive Personnel
Over the past 28 years in executive search and several years as a general manager at a dealership prior, I have found seven components common to all terrific hires. We focus on these components when we are evaluating candidates and ... [Read More]
FICO answers 5 typical questions to enhance collections
Monday, May. 1, 2017, 02:23 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
With delinquencies an ongoing concern, FICO said it has crafted a way to prioritize the account holders with the highest likelihood of paying. FICO discussed the process in its latest white paper, delving into the topic by discussing five questions ... [Read More]
How Q1 GDP figure might frame next rate discussion
Monday, May. 1, 2017, 02:22 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Federal Open Market Committee within the Federal Reserve is set to conduct its next regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday. It appears the policymakers have much to discuss since first-quarter gross domestic product figures arrived this past Friday. ... [Read More]
March auto defaults dip 5 basis points
Friday, Apr. 28, 2017, 01:36 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The auto finance component of the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices showed contract defaults improved in March both on a year-over-year and sequential basis. According to data released by S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian, auto loan defaults came in ... [Read More]
Carleton successfully completes SOC 2 audit
Friday, Apr. 28, 2017, 01:35 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Carleton, a provider of compliant financing calculation and document generation solutions, recently announced that it has successfully completed its 2016 SOC 2 compliance audit, conducted by Crowe Horwath. The company highlighted SOC 2 compliance has quickly become a hot topic ... [Read More]
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