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The Future of EVs & More From the OEM Lens
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
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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
Researcher: CFPB Lacks Authority to Publish Complaints
Monday, Sep. 15, 2014, 03:46 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
A George Mason University researcher and Yale School of Law graduate found three significant issues with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wanting to publish consumer complaint narratives online — including the CFPB lacking the authority to make such a move. ... [Read More]
Treasury Reduces Ally Stake to 13.8%
Friday, Sep. 12, 2014, 05:46 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s ownership in Ally Financial continues to shrink. Treasury officials on Friday announced the completion of the first pre-defined written trading plan for Ally common stock. Treasury said it sold 8,890,000 shares and recovered approximately ... [Read More]
Premier Warranty Hosts AFIP Certification Boot Camp
Friday, Sep. 12, 2014, 02:48 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Premier Warranty hosted an Association of Finance & Insurance Professionals certification boot camp for the sales and F&I personnel of its dealer clients in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas this summer in Bossier City, La. Attendees represented 10 dealerships operated by ... [Read More]
Santander Chairman Passes Away Unexpectedly
Friday, Sep. 12, 2014, 02:45 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
It’s been an emotional week for Banco Santander and Santander Consumer USA leaders both in Europe and the U.S. Chairman Emilio Botín unexpectedly passed away on Tuesday, and a day later the bank’s board of directors of unanimously agreed to ... [Read More]
Less-Seasoned Loans Push Average Debt Levels Higher
Friday, Sep. 12, 2014, 02:36 PM
Nick Zulovich, Editor
Make it 13 quarters in a row during which the average amount consumers had remaining on their vehicle installment contract moved higher year-over-year. TransUnion's Industry Insights Report indicated that auto loan debt per borrower jumped 4.1 percent from $16,410 in ... [Read More]
Auto Affordability Questioned As Job Growth Slows
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2014, 03:37 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Despite Comerica Bank saying the latest economic trends might be better than the raw numbers indicate, Requisite Press insisted when it released its August Auto Buyer's Affordability Index (ABAI) on Wednesday that a growing economy is “simply not” enough to ... [Read More]
Used-Value Decline Not Expected to Hurt Auto Lease ABS
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2014, 03:34 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Fitch Ratings asserted that U.S. auto lease ABS will continue to perform within expectations, and ratings will be stable even though analysts understand that used-vehicle values will continue to decline moderately from their recent “untenable” highs. Fitch also projected that ... [Read More]
NADA Supports Latest Bipartisan Effort to Reform CFPB Guidance
Wednesday, Sep. 10, 2014, 03:29 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
National Automobile Dealers Association members are gathering on Capitol Hill this week to urge Congressional lawmakers to pass bipartisan legislation that franchised dealers say would nullify the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s “flawed” guidance on auto lending. NADA explained H.R. 5403 ... [Read More]
BillingTree Finalizes Examination in Conformity with SSAE
Monday, Sep. 8, 2014, 03:12 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
BillingTree recently completed its examination in conformity with Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16, Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization for the period from May 1 of last year through April 30 of this year. The ... [Read More]
Hyundai Capital America Reaches 25 Years in Business
Monday, Sep. 8, 2014, 03:10 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This past Saturday was a silver one for Hyundai Capital America as the captive finance company that does business as Hyundai Motor Finance and Kia Motors Finance celebrated its 25th anniversary and a quarter century in Orange County, Calif. Originally ... [Read More]
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