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This Month's Focus

Artificial Intelligence

Carfluent’s new AI tool helps dealerships beat aggregators in searches

Monday, May. 11, 2026, 09:51 AM

A growing percentage of consumers now use artificial intelligence as what marketplace Cars.com describes as a “trusted co-pilot” in their search for a vehicle to purchase. Meanwhile, other studies suggest that dealership websites are not visible to many of those ... Read More

ChatGPT app represents the latest step in CarMax’s ongoing AI evolution

Monday, May. 11, 2026, 09:45 AM

Yes, it’s AI — everyone’s favorite buzzword. But when it comes down to it, artificial intelligence is only part of what CarMax’s new ChatGPT app is all about. The company billed as the nation’s largest used-car retailer touted the app, ... Read More

Inside the ‘architectural mismatch’ between AI capabilities & dealer needs

Monday, May. 11, 2026, 09:42 AM

A new survey report from LotLinx asserts that in its current form, “AI is broken for dealers.” The company contends the era of “one-size-fits-all artificial intelligence” is over for auto dealers. The recent survey of 215 executives from both franchised ... Read More

FICO’s Shams Blanc on lenders sharpening underwriting & more

Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2026, 03:54 PM

Fresh off being in Miami as part of the Used Car Industry Summit that Cherokee Media Group hosted this spring, Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, appeared again on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Blanc discussed ... Listen Here

Byron Oldham of Honest Autos & FIADA

Monday, Apr. 27, 2026, 07:47 PM

Byron Oldham is president of the family-owned Honest Autos dealership and is president of the board at the Florida Independent Automobile Dealers Association. In this episode, Oldham talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about the upcoming Southeast ... Listen Here

Automotive CFO-To-Go Kathi Kruse talks dealership finance, accounting in ‘lightning round’

Sunday, Apr. 19, 2026, 04:27 AM

Kathi Kruse, the Automotive CFO-To-Go who brings her financial expertise — born through years of experience as a dealership chief financial officer — to dealers needing help in that area, is back on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. In this episode, ... Listen Here

Beck’s next stop in automotive is with Agora Data

Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, 11:35 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Jeremy Beck has embarked on another segment of his professional journey in automotive. Beck, whose career includes time with the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association, APCO Holdings, GWC Warranty and Ally Financial, now is vice president of sales strategy for ... [Read More]

EFG Companies: 2025 is full of opportunities for dealers and lenders

Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, 10:44 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Four top leaders at EFG Companies acknowledged economic challenges, including vehicle affordability, inflation, and interest rates, made for some rough sledding for automotive financing and retailing in 2024. But the quartet thinks this year is going to be much different, ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Executives on subprime market & 2025 expectations

Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, 11:29 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

We continue our episodes of the Auto Remarketing Podcast originating from Used Car Week 2024 in Scottsdale, Ariz., with an executive panel moderated by Jennifer Martin of the National Automotive Finance Association. Discussing the subprime market, expectations for this year ... [Read More]

ARA & MBSi partner to streamline compliance mandates in repossession & recovery

LCT teams with AKUVO to streamline loan refunds

Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, 11:29 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

More synergy in repossession and recovery spaces surfaced on Monday. The American Recovery Association (ARA) and MBSi announced a new partnership providing MBSi users the ability to accept ARA’s Compliance System within its RecoveryConnect platform. The move is meant to ... [Read More]

Glenview Finance lands new VP, relationship with RouteOne

Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, 11:00 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Glenview Finance made a couple of moves this week to reinforce its market position; one associated with personnel and the other with technology. Along with bringing aboard a new vice president of business development who previously spent nine years with ... [Read More]

Vitu finalizes acquisition of Dealertrack registration & titling businesses from Cox Automotive

Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, 10:59 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Vitu, a leading innovator in vehicle-to-government (V2Gov) technology, announced this week that it has successfully closed on its acquisition of the Dealertrack registration and titling businesses from Cox Automotive. Through a development first revealed just before Thanksgiving, the acquired businesses ... [Read More]

Flagship Credit Acceptance welcomes new chief risk officer

Another former Manheim Canada exec joins Otolane

Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, 11:26 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

An executive whose career includes time with DriveTime Automotive and Capital One now is with Flagship Credit Acceptance. Continuing a string of industry executive moves to begin the year, Flagship Credit Acceptance on Wednesday appointed Matthew Long to be its ... [Read More]

LCT welcomes former EY managing director to board of advisors

Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, 11:32 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Lender Compliance Technologies (LCT) has a new resource to guide its way through the world of compliance solutions for managing F&I product refunds. LCT on Tuesday announced the appointment of Bob Johnson to its board of advisors. The company said ... [Read More]

CFPB targets Experian via lawsuit over credit report errors

Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, 11:32 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is suing Experian, claiming the nationwide consumer reporting agency is unlawfully failing to properly investigate consumer disputes. According to a news release distributed on Tuesday, the CFPB alleges that Experian does not take sufficient ... [Read More]

Experts see positives of Trump & Congress on auto, plus less Fed impact

Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, 11:29 AM

Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor

President-elect Donald Trump is set to return to the White House, and a Republican-controlled Congress is about to be in place, too. Those developments and what lawmakers could do going forward, plus potential future decisions by the Federal Reserve, are ... [Read More]

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