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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

Industry Elite: Mike Clark Jr. of C&C Cars

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2 elements that help dealers in non-prime financing

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Monday, Jul. 27, 2015, 04:20 PM

Nick Zulovich, Editor

Michael Buckingham, senior director of the auto finance practice at J.D. Power, acknowledged dealers and finance companies already know that trying to get a new-vehicle contract completed for a customers with a soft credit profile can be “tricky.” So when ... [Read More]

Appeals court overturns previous decision questioning CFPB constitutionality

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Monday, Jul. 27, 2015, 04:16 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

If members of Congress wanted more ammunition for a crusade to eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, perhaps a three-judge panel on the District of Columbia Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals provided just the thing. An opinion released ... [Read More]

Auto loan defaults sink to new low in June

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Friday, Jul. 24, 2015, 03:52 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

June’s auto loan metrics bucked the trends seen in other credit markets to register a new historical low, according to the latest S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices. Analysts from S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian noticed the auto loan default ... [Read More]

CFPB fills top 2 posts on acting basis

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Friday, Jul. 24, 2015, 03:50 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made temporary adjustments to fill the role of its deputy director who resigned last week, a pair of Texas lawmakers introduced a proposal to eliminate the CFPB altogether. With deputy director Steve Antonakes departing the ... [Read More]

F&I Express unveils tool to watch margins for compliance

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Friday, Jul. 24, 2015, 03:46 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

F&I Express recently launched what’s being dubbed CompliPrice, a cloud-based tool aimed to help stores ensure profits on aftermarket insurance products are compliant with dealer and finance companies compliance policies, and potential guidelines from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The ... [Read More]

More evidence of consumer rebound via subprime loans

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Wednesday, Jul. 22, 2015, 03:32 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Westlake Financial Services and Equifax now have more data to support their argument that subprime auto financing can benefit individuals with soft credit histories, rather than create a negative situation some regulators and consumer advocates might believe. Equifax recognized Westlake ... [Read More]

The numbers as the CFPB turns 4

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Wednesday, Jul. 22, 2015, 03:27 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau celebrated its fourth birthday on Tuesday. Among the individuals on hand to cheer the occasion were the lawmakers who authored the Dodd-Frank Act, which created the CFPB. Instead of just cake and party hats, bureau ... [Read More]

Upcoming free FICO webinar to discuss application fraud

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Wednesday, Jul. 22, 2015, 03:19 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

FICO is offering finance companies strategy recommendations for those who fear that they’re reviewing too many applications for fraud, yet still finding fraudsters on the books. FICO also questioned whether finance companies have a clear definition of what is fraud and ... [Read More]

FactorTrust launches alternative data tool specific for auto financing

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Tuesday, Jul. 21, 2015, 02:25 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Leveraging the possibilities of alternative credit data to enhance the underwriting process percolated several times during industry events earlier this year. On Tuesday, FactorTrust responded to the inherent need for increased credit opportunities for non-prime consumers by rolling out a new ... [Read More]

SCUSA taps new chairman, fills board

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Monday, Jul. 20, 2015, 03:57 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Another executive who spent time in a leadership position at J.P. Morgan Chase now is holding an even higher post at Santander Consumer USA Holdings. Not long after the finance company elevated Jason Kulus to be SCUSA’s chief executive officer, ... [Read More]

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