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Carleton’s Tim Yalich on how critical accurate payment information is to today’s car shoppers
Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2026, 02:48 PM
Tim Yalich, who now is vice president of business development for Carleton, returned for an appearance on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Yalich explained how much more crucial accurate payment information is to today’s car shoppers in an environment with some ... Listen Here
Widewail CEO Cuyler Owens
Monday, Mar. 9, 2026, 08:09 PM
Cuyler Owens is CEO of Widewail, a reputation and customer experience platform for the auto industry Cuyler joined Widewail as CEO in December, following nearly three years as chief revenue officer of TrustRadius, and time with Dell, Vmware and Dealerware. ... Listen Here
Automotive Intelligence Award Honoree: Patrick Manzi of NADA
Friday, Mar. 6, 2026, 07:55 PM
Our conversations with the 2026 Automotive Intelligence Award winners continue with Patrick Manzi, who is the chief economist at the National Automobile Dealers Association. Manzi , who got his first subscription to Car and Driver in his early teens, talks ... Listen Here

JM&A Group, Volvo team up for F&I product offerings

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Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, 02:38 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
F&I product provider JM&A Group recently entered into an agreement with Volvo Car USA to provide a full suite of branded F&I products for new and used vehicles to more than 300 Volvo dealers nationally. Through Volvo’s branded F&I program ... [Read More]

GM Financial’s North American originations hit new high

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Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, 02:32 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
General Motors Financial generated the most North American originations in a single quarter ever while continuing to compile more prime paper than subprime contracts in the process. President and chief executive officer Dan Berce highlighted that the captive’s North American ... [Read More]

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Securitization roundup: $550M closed by CPS & Credit Acceptance

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Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, 03:22 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
With S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings keeping close watch of how the auto ABS market is behaving, two finance companies that have conducted several rounds of securitizations — Consumer Portfolio Services and Credit Acceptance — recently added more offerings. ... [Read More]

Former Equifax exec joins FactorTrust as chief information officer

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Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, 03:21 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This week, FactorTrust announced the hiring of Paul Bunting as chief information officer as the company accelerates its efforts around analytics and product development. The company indicated Bunting will oversee all IT and infrastructure, security, analytics and product development efforts ... [Read More]

Debt collection continues to top CFPB complaint charts

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Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, 02:35 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s monthly complaint snapshot released this week, the CFPB has handled approximately 1,008,500 complaints across all products as of Oct. 1. Bureau officials indicated debt collection remained the most-complained-about financial product or service. Of ... [Read More]

Lending Club unveils refinancing product

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Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, 03:59 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Lending Club, which claims to be the world's largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, this week announced the launch of an auto refinance product that is designed to give vehicle owners a simple solution to save money on their ... [Read More]

September default rate ties year-high

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Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, 03:57 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The auto default reading S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian reported for September tied the highest mark of the year, coming in at 1.05 percent. Ticking up 4 basis points on a sequential basis left the September reading at the ... [Read More]

What CFPB is doing through Project Catalyst

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Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016, 03:22 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray generated attention on Monday, and this time it wasn’t connected with an enforcement action and millions of dollars in restitution and fines. Rather, Cordray shared some insight about an endeavor called Project Catalyst, a ... [Read More]

19 institutions join launch of mobile payment tool

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Monday, Oct. 24, 2016, 03:49 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The potential for more vehicle installment contract holders in your portfolio to use their smartphone to make regular payments to keep their auto financing current took another step forward on Monday. Early Warning announced preliminary details of a tool named ... [Read More]

Latest S&P analysis reflects back on 2007-09 ABS performance

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Monday, Oct. 24, 2016, 03:48 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
With outstanding auto loan balances reaching a record $1.1 trillion as of June 30 and concern growing about the sector’s health, S&P Global Ratings recently analyzed the resiliency of auto loan asset-backed securities (ABS) ratings through the Great Recession of ... [Read More]

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