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
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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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How ‘fairly stable consumers’ could impact subprime
Monday, Mar. 13, 2017, 03:37 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Certain macroeconomic trends — especially employment and consumer confidence — prompted Santander Consumer USA president and chief executive officer Jason Kulas to say that he sees a “fairly stable consumer” after he examined the finance company’s portfolio as well as ... [Read More]
GWC Warranty rolls out free compliance training for top dealer clients
Monday, Mar. 13, 2017, 03:35 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Used-vehicle service contract and related finance and insurance products provider GWC Warranty introduced a new exclusive benefit for its top dealers. Members of the WealthBuilder and Elite Dealer Programs now have access to free, online, on-demand compliance training. Through GWC ... [Read More]
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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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Del Mar Recovery Solutions & MBSi broaden partnership
Friday, Mar. 10, 2017, 04:20 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This week, repossession services provider Del Mar Recovery Solutions announced that the company expanded its partnership with MBSi Corp. to encompass MBSi’s new suite of products. For the past several years, Del Mar Recovery Solutions has utilized MBSi’s iRepo platform ... [Read More]
Negative auto ABS trends continue in January
Friday, Mar. 10, 2017, 04:18 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
S&P Global Ratings reported on Thursday that collateral performance in the U.S. prime and subprime auto loan asset-backed securities (ABS) sectors continued to weaken in January. “Surprisingly, delinquencies did not decline from December to January as they usually do,” the ... [Read More]
Equifax rolls out suite of 3 advanced analytics tools
Thursday, Mar. 9, 2017, 02:15 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
On Thursday, Equifax announced the global launch of a portfolio of analytics tools dubbed Equifax Ignite that’s available now in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., and coming to Australia in the fall. The company explained that Equifax Ignite challenges ... [Read More]
CFPB’s supervisory highlights focus on credit reporting
Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2017, 03:23 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently released a report detailing the problems in the credit reporting industry that the bureau said it has uncovered and corrected through its oversight work. Since launching its supervision of the credit reporting market, ... [Read More]
Wise F&I’s products now accessible through Darwin Automotive
Wednesday, Mar. 8, 2017, 03:19 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Wise F&I, which offers an array of voluntary protection products including guaranteed asset protection (GAP), appearance care service contracts, tire and wheel protection, vehicle service contracts, theft deterrent systems, key replacement and other ancillary products, recently announced its products are ... [Read More]
FTC and New York AG release annual auto-related complaint stats
Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2017, 03:25 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Coinciding with the start of National Consumer Protection Week, both the Federal Trade Commission and New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman — one of the most active individual regulatory enforcers in the auto finance space — both released annual consumer ... [Read More]
What might ‘seal the deal’ for next interest rate hike
Monday, Mar. 6, 2017, 04:37 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Stifel Nicolaus chief economist Lindsey Piegza and Comerica Bank chief economist Robert Dye each examined the comprehensive commentary offered by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen regarding the possibility of another interest rate move arriving next week. After taking in what ... [Read More]
Veros Credit makes 2 moves associated with ‘strategic realignment’
Monday, Mar. 6, 2017, 04:36 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Subprime auto finance company Veros Credit is going through what leadership called a “strategic realignment,” which includes the closing of two facilities as well as the hiring of a new senior vice president of sales and marketing. First, Veros Credit, ... [Read More]
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