Chip Perry & Dom Pope of sellmyride
Chip Perry, founding president and CEO of Autotrader and former CEO of TrueCar, has a new role: chairman of sellmyride, a startup seeking to help dealers source inventory from private sellers. Perry and sellmyride founder and president Dom Pope join ... Listen Here
Friday, Sep. 26, 2025, 03:08 PM
A Look Back at Last Two Decades of the Used-Car Industry in Canada
In the grand finale of our podcast episodes from Canada’s Used Car Week in June, conference chair and Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits is joined by Brad Hart and Peter Snoyer on a panel celebrating 20th anniversary of the ... Listen Here
Thursday, Sep. 18, 2025, 02:32 PM
SPONSORED EPISODE: AI & Big Data Deliver Significant Improvements to Inventory Management
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Merritt Critcher, Director of Product Management with CDK speaks with Bill Zadeits about the newest trends and potential for AI and big data to meet and exceed the inventory management needs ... Listen Here
Thursday, Sep. 11, 2025, 04:33 PM
Finance company notes: Exeter securitization & Ally redemption
Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, 04:31 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Two significant players in the auto finance space — Ally Financial and Exeter Finance — each shared details about recent company developments. At Exeter, the company announced on Monday that it closed a $300 million securitization backed by automobile loan ... [Read More]
Wise F&I exec to serve as GAPA president
Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, 04:28 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Rob Berger, executive vice president at Wise F&I, was recently elected to serve as president of the Guaranteed Asset Protection Alliance, an organization established in 2006 comprised of companies that offer guaranteed asset protection (GAP) products. The purpose of GAPA ... [Read More]
PaymentVision offers free webinar on tokenization
Friday, Nov. 20, 2015, 03:08 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The week after Thanksgiving, PaymentVision will hold a free webinar on the importance and benefits of tokenization, or when applied to data security, the process of substituting a sensitive data element with a non-sensitive equivalent. The webinar covering the currently ... [Read More]
Veros Credit opens new Texas business center
Friday, Nov. 20, 2015, 02:58 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Veros Credit announced it has opened a new Regional Business Center in the Dallas area. The company reported the new center will assist in the company’s growth efforts in Texas. The focus of the new center will be to provide ... [Read More]
Lenders remain ‘vigilant’ amid auto-loan market growth
Friday, Nov. 20, 2015, 02:38 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Reporting strong performance in the “no-score” segment of the credit spectrum, Equifax pointed out in a release this week lender vigilance is helping to drive auto loan market success. According to the latest National Consumer Credit Trends Report from Equifax ... [Read More]
House passes CFPB reform bill
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, 04:22 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
To the delight of many in the automotive industry, the House of Representatives voted on and passed a bill aimed at altering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s handling of indirect auto financing. With a vote of 332 to 96, the ... [Read More]
Analysts wonder why lease credit approvals are spiking
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, 03:17 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Even though lease credit approvals are down slightly this month, rates remain unusually high, prompting analysts to discuss the factors behind the surge. According to Swapalease.com, lease credit approvals fell to 75 percent this month, down a bit from the ... [Read More]
Springleaf reaches settlement with DOJ to buy OneMain Financial
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, 02:52 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Personal finance company Springleaf Holdings Inc. recently announced it will be moving forward with its purchase of OneMain Financial Holdings LLC after reaching a settlement with the Department of Justice, as well as the Attorneys General of seven states. ... [Read More]
Auto loan defaults rise in October but remain at ‘low levels’
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, 02:19 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Auto loan defaults spiked a bit in October, though analysts say consumer credit default rates still remain at “low levels.” According to data released Tuesday by S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian, auto loan default rates came in at 1 ... [Read More]
TransUnion spots outstanding balances above $1T
Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, 09:12 PM
Nick Zulovich, Editor
TransUnion’s Industry Insights Report found that outstanding auto loan balances surpassed $1 trillion in the third quarter, an 11.1 percent jump year-over-year. But contract holders appear to be maintaining their payments on that growing balance total since delinquencies — the ... [Read More]
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