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Cox Automotive’s Andy Mayers on opportunity in subprime & elsewhere in auto finance
Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, 02:33 PM
Andy Mayers sees opportunity in subprime and other parts of auto finance. The associate vice president of business operations for retail solutions with Cox Automotive explained his reasons during this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Mayers also mentioned another ... Listen Here
The Future of EVs & More From the OEM Lens
Tuesday, Sep. 30, 2025, 07:38 PM
Laurie Harbour is a partner at Wipfli, a top 25 accounting and advisory firm, and works with automakers and suppliers on how to adjust to changing winds of automotive. Harbour joins the Auto Remarketing Podcast to discuss how automakers are ... Listen Here
Chip Perry & Dom Pope of sellmyride
Friday, Sep. 26, 2025, 03:08 PM
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

10 attributes about millennials’ ‘fragile’ financial standing

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Monday, Oct. 5, 2015, 03:33 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
A pair of experts from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center at the George Washington University School of Business shared their analysis about millennials’ personal finances and highlighted 10 key findings. Coming from the report titled, Gen Y Personal Finances: ... [Read More]

More than 500 dealers mingle with lawmakers

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Monday, Oct. 5, 2015, 03:30 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The National Automobile Dealers Association chose an appropriate time to conduct its Washington Conference with all of the vehicle financing activity that percolated out of the nation’s capital last week. More than 500 franchised dealers and dealer association executives from ... [Read More]

Credit Acceptance completes $75M secured warehouse facility

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Monday, Oct. 5, 2015, 03:22 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Credit Acceptance recently completed a $75 million revolving secured warehouse facility with an institutional investor.  Under this facility, the company explained it will contribute loans to a wholly owned special purpose entity (SPE) and the SPE may borrow up to the ... [Read More]

2 trends reinforced in Fifth Third action with CFPB

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Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, 03:47 PM
Nick Zulovich, Editor
In developments that frustrated a trio of franchised dealer trade groups, it appears the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau strengthened two regulatory patterns when the agency released its enforcement action against Fifth Third Bank earlier this week. To get some clarity about ... [Read More]

Westlake offers 7 details regarding agreement with CFPB

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Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, 03:43 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Westlake Financial Services made public statements late Thursday after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau penalized the subprime auto finance company and its auto title lending subsidiary Wilshire Consumer Credit for pressuring borrowers using what the regulator deemed to be illegal ... [Read More]

CFPB action against Westlake tops $44M

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Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, 07:40 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The second significant Consumer Financial Protection Bureau enforcement action of the week in the auto finance space hit one of the largest players in the subprime market — Westlake Financial Services. On Thursday, CFPB punished Westlake and its auto title ... [Read More]

House lawmakers pepper Cordray over dealer reserve

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Wednesday, Sep. 30, 2015, 03:59 PM
Nick Zulovich, Editor
Two of U.S. House membesr who are two of staunchest defenders of dealers and how the indirect auto financing model currently operates — one that still includes dealer reserve — peppered the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who ... [Read More]

Westlake expanding workforce in Dallas

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Wednesday, Sep. 30, 2015, 03:57 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Westlake Financial Services shared its plans this week to expand its servicing team at the WFS Production Center in Dallas. Since its inception back in January, the company highlighted this facility has increased support for Westlake’s dealer partners, providing them with ... [Read More]

AmTrust Financial Services closes acquisition of Warranty Solutions

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Wednesday, Sep. 30, 2015, 03:55 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
AmTrust Financial Services recently completed of the acquisition of Warranty Solutions from Wells Fargo & Co. for approximately $158 million in cash. Officials indicated the transaction is expected to be immediately accretive, meaning it will add more value than the ... [Read More]

Fifth Third Bank ordered to pay $18M, reduce mark-up to 1.25% or less

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Monday, Sep. 28, 2015, 06:48 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
First Ally Financial, then American Honda Finance Corp., and on Monday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau added Fifth Third Bank to its list of recipients of multi-million-dollar actions for what the regulators determined to be discrimination in vehicle financing. As ... [Read More]
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