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
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]
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The Dealer’s Guide to Smarter GPS Tracking
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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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]
Pinpointing dealer role in preventing auto finance fraud
Tuesday, Apr. 11, 2017, 03:05 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
As a follow-up to its analysis that stated fraud in auto financing could reach $6 billion this year, PointPredictive released another white paper on Tuesday with suggestions on where that scheme could be nipped before it happens. PointPredictive’s new whitepaper, ... [Read More]
Tax refunds enhance February auto loan ABS performance
Monday, Apr. 10, 2017, 02:56 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Along with offering a glimpse into some overall quarterly metrics, S&P Global Ratings reported that collateral performance in the U.S. prime and subprime auto loan asset-backed securities (ABS) sectors improved in February, relative to January. Analysts determined that losses, delinquencies ... [Read More]
Total Dealer Compliance rolls out virtual training solution
Monday, Apr. 10, 2017, 02:54 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Dealership compliance auditing firm Total Dealer Compliance (TDC) recently launched its virtual training platform: a solution aimed at helping stores mitigate risk faced by proactive regulators to create a culture of compliance at a fraction of the cost. TDC claims to ... [Read More]
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