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SPONSORED EPISODE: Allied Solutions reviews Q1, pinpoints signals of loan health
Tuesday, Apr. 7, 2026, 07:55 PM
John Elias and Peter Krall of Allied Solutions returned for another special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Elias and Krall recapped some of the most notable developments in auto finance from the first quarter of 2026. The Allied ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: Path to stable inventory & price transparency as potential car buyers see uncertain world
Monday, Apr. 6, 2026, 01:13 PM
James Virgoe, senior vice president and managing director of GWC Warranty, appeared on another special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast at a time when domestic and foreign turbulences have added even more complexities to the car business. Virgoe ... Listen Here
Automotive Intelligence Award honoree Satyan Merchant of TransUnion
Wednesday, Apr. 1, 2026, 07:01 PM
Our conversations with the 2026 Automotive Intelligence Award winners wrap up with Satyan Merchant, who is senior vice president, automotive and mortgage business leader at TransUnion. Merchant recollected how his interest in data started when studying statistics on the back ... Listen Here

PointPredictive enhances DealerTrace to combat fraud

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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

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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]

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5 changes toward the Consumer Financial Opportunity Agency

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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]

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