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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
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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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Industry notes: PassTime to aid credit unions; Heritage Acceptance’s new VSC offering
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, 04:06 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Announcements recently arrived involving PassTime GPS, Heritage Acceptance and Sword Apak. LEVERAGE, the service corporation of the League of Southeastern Credit Unions & Affiliates (LSCU) that equips credit union partners with products and services to fulfill day-to-day needs, named PassTime ... [Read More]
The key to auto finance in 2017: Technology
Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, 03:56 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Experts from Equifax, Fiserv and J.D. Power all agree: Technology is going to be the catalyst to keeping the financing cog in the automotive retail machine humming in 2017 at least near the level dealerships, finance companies and other service ... [Read More]
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3 ways to maintain subprime sales in any conditions
Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, 03:34 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Regardless of which way the subprime breezes are blowing, GWC Warranty explained there are certain steps dealers can take to ensure their own subprime business doesn’t fluctuate with the annual ebbs and flows of the subprime market. The company that ... [Read More]
CFPB reviews depth student loans are impacting older borrowers
Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, 03:32 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
You might automatically assume if student loans — and difficulty in maintaining payments — are the hurdles to keeping the financing from being finalized for vehicle delivery, the customer surely is a recent college graduate. A new report from the ... [Read More]
S&P Global’s 5-point ABS projections for 2017
Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, 04:28 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Before S&P Global Ratings credit analyst Amy Martin could even get to her slides containing projections for the auto ABS market, an observer who joined the firm’s webinar on Thursday asked which subprime ABS issuers are most vulnerable to negative ... [Read More]
New ProMax Unlimited dealer tool leverages Equifax employment data
Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, 04:26 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Dealer Marketing Services, the makers of ProMax Unlimited, recently released Employment and Income Verification Service (EIVS); a tool that can enable dealerships to access valuable data provided by Equifax in order to verify a customer’s employment history and income early ... [Read More]
A dealer’s secret weapon: The underutilized auto finance source representative
Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, 04:37 PM
George Ewing, Flagship Credit Acceptance
I recently came across an article titled, “J.D. Power: Speed No Longer Top Consideration When Selecting Finance Sources,” and it sparked my interest about what the modern retail automotive dealer leadership really wants to see from their finance companies when ... [Read More]
Foss retires from Credit Acceptance
Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, 09:27 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
One of the most noteworthy executives ever to participate in subprime auto financing has retired. Credit Acceptance announced late on Wednesday afternoon that founder Donald Foss, who most recently served as the company’s chairman, has decided to retire as an ... [Read More]
CFPB takes $23M action against TransUnion & Equifax
Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, 05:37 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
In an action one of the credit bureaus acknowledged through a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau confirmed on Tuesday that it took action against Equifax, TransUnion and their subsidiaries for what they regulator ... [Read More]
Industry notes: Updates from Reynolds, U Drive Acceptance & FICO
Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, 05:35 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Before the year closed, Reynolds and Reynolds added to its collection of libraries of standardized, legally reviewed finance and insurance (F&I) documents for dealers while a subprime finance company serving the Midwest — U Drive Acceptance — moved into new ... [Read More]
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