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Experian’s Melinda Zabritski discusses ongoing stretching of terms
Friday, Jun. 12, 2026, 09:35 AM
The latest appearance on the Auto Remarketing Podcast by Melinda Zabritski, Experian’s head of automotive financial insights and Automotive Intelligence Award recipient, focused on auto-loan terms, which oftentimes are at least 72 months nowadays. Zabritski also compared a data point ... Listen Here
Forming the Transport Queens with Amber Gosney of SYCN Auto Logistics
Tuesday, Jun. 2, 2026, 01:30 PM
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PODCAST: Autonomous vehicles & the used-car market with Peter Janczewski of Draiver
Tuesday, Jun. 2, 2026, 01:23 PM
We continue our episodes of the Auto Remarketing Podcast originating from the Live Stage, which was sponsored by SYCN Auto Logistics, during the Used Car Industry Summit in Miami this spring. To get a better understanding of how autonomous technology ... Listen Here

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]

Total Dealer Compliance rolls out virtual training solution

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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]

Westlake’s DealerCenter now offers eContracting solution

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Thursday, Apr. 6, 2017, 05:54 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This week, Westlake Financial Services highlighted that it has launched its electronic contracting automotive loan origination solution in 17 U.S. states through DealerCenter. Westlake insisted the move enhanced the finance company’s customer service to both its borrowers and dealer-partners, while ... [Read More]

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