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

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Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Mike Clark Jr., operations manager of C& C Cars in Pinellas Park, Fla. Clark is a third-generation dealer and helps run the family business ... Listen Here

Industry Elite: Chuck Tapp of America’s Group

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Next up on our series with the inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honorees is America’s Group CEO Chuck Tapp. In this episode, we revisit Tapp’s fireside chat with Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits at Used Car Week 2025. They ... Listen Here

Industry Elite: Grace Huang of Cox Automotive

Thursday, Mar. 19, 2026, 04:49 PM

Kicking off our podcasts with the inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honorees is a conversation with Grace Huang, president of Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions. Huang talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about her journey from business consultant ... Listen Here

TransUnion Study Reaffirms Auto Loan Payment Importance

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Friday, Mar. 21, 2014, 03:47 PM

Nick Zulovich, Editor

The latest update of an ongoing TransUnion study showed consumers continue to place an emphasis on paying their auto loans before their mortgages and credit card payments — and by a wide margin. TransUnion contends this trend has been in ... [Read More]

Wolters Kluwer Survey Shows Depth of Regulatory Burden Growth

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Friday, Mar. 21, 2014, 03:43 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News

Results of the latest Regulatory & Risk Management Indicator for the U.S. banking industry issued this week by Wolters Kluwer Financial Services indicated U.S. banks and credit unions are carrying a much heavier regulatory and risk management burden than they ... [Read More]

Credit Acceptance Posts Gains During Tax Season

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Friday, Mar. 21, 2014, 03:41 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Since Credit Acceptance Corp., is planning to purchase up to 637,420 shares of its outstanding common stock later this month, the company offered some operating results for the two months of the year as the industry navigated through the peak ... [Read More]

CPS Finalizes 1st Securitization of 2014

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Friday, Mar. 21, 2014, 03:36 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

This week, Consumer Portfolio Services announced the closing of its first term securitization of the year. The transaction is CPS’ 12th senior subordinate securitization since the beginning of 2011. In the transaction, qualified institutional buyers purchased $180 million of asset-backed ... [Read More]

Spireon Forms Alliance to Help Credit Unions Mitigate Risk

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Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2014, 03:27 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Spireon is a part of new alliance aimed at rolling out a solution developed and designed exclusively for credit unions to help them track vehicles in their auto loan portfolios. Earlier this week, Spireon highlighted a new collaboration between the ... [Read More]

House Members Want More Access to CFPB Meetings

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Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2014, 03:24 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

To mark “Sunshine Week,” a national initiative launched by the media to promote open government, U.S. House Financial Services Committee chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling is calling on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray to end the bureau’s closed-door meeting ... [Read More]

Composite Default Reading at Lowest Point Since 2006

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Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2014, 03:21 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

The other four credit categories included in the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices joined auto loans in showing declines in February. Analysts from S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian indicated that February data showed the auto loan default rate dipped ... [Read More]

Survey: Bankers Expect Higher Credit-Loss Reserves

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Monday, Mar. 17, 2014, 04:26 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

According to a new survey by financial information company Sageworks, U.S. banks and credit unions that are preparing for proposed changes to how they must estimate credit losses anticipate they’ll eventually need to boost allowances for loan and lease losses ... [Read More]

Wells Fargo Maintains Hold of Used-Vehicle Financing Market

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Monday, Mar. 17, 2014, 04:24 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Of the Top 20 finance companies in the used-vehicle market, only eight gained market share year-over-year as of the close of the fourth quarter. And according to Experian Automotive, many of the operations that lost ground in Q4 saw their ... [Read More]

Top 5 Cheapest Places to Finance a New Car

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Monday, Mar. 17, 2014, 04:21 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

With an average of tax refund of more than $3,000 coming to consumers, GOBankingRates analysts sought out to find the states and cities that boast the lowest interest rates on new-vehicle loans this month. The site’s study determined the five ... [Read More]

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