Your service drive is filled with loyal customers who trust your dealership and are physically in your store, yet most...
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Experts see Middle East conflict making current car & credit markets even more challenging
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With additional insight about affordability, FICO watches average credit scores tick lower again
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PODCAST: Industry Elite honoree Jennifer Turnage on why accurate financial information can make or break any business
Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2026, 01:05 PM
Industry Elite honoree Mike Thomas of Resolvion on building his career — literally
Next up in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Mike Thomas, who is chief executive officer of Resolvion. Thomas shares memories with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Nick Zulovich about working in construction and ... Listen Here
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Industry Elite honoree Jennifer Turnage on why accurate financial information can make or break any business
Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Jennifer Turnage, who is chief executive officer of Primeritus Financial Services. Turnage talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Nick Zulovich about the importance ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2026, 05:01 PM
Industry Elite honoree Kelly Wyatt on 25-year career with GM Financial
Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Kelly Wyatt, who is chief digital officer with GM Financial. Wyatt shares a conversation with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Nick Zulovich about being ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2026, 04:43 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Highlights New Website
Friday, Mar. 7, 2014, 04:30 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Like sister publications within Cherokee Automotive Group, SubPrime Auto Finance News is leveraging a new website into more opportunities to distribute content, enhance branding for advertisers and broaden social media popularity. With the launch of this new website, SubPrime Auto ... [Read More]
TransUnion: Consumer Credit Risk Drops to Lowest Level Since ’05
Friday, Mar. 7, 2014, 04:21 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Triggered in part by the performance of vehicle financing, TransUnion’s Credit Risk Index — a measure of aggregate credit risk in the nation — dropped at the conclusion of 2013 to its lowest level since 2005. Analysts determined the Credit ... [Read More]
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A Buyer’s Guide for Independent Dealer, BHPH, and Auto Finance Leaders Reducing Risk, Unlocking Opportunity Independent dealers and finance companies...
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Vehicles touch multiple vendors before they ever hit the lot, and when approvals, communication, and invoices are scattered, delays are...
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Pollak: Future of Self-Service Financing
Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2014, 04:24 PM
Dale Pollak, vAuto
I had a fascinating conversation the other day with Pete Radike, director of product management for Fiserv, a Wisconsin-based company that processes and services vehicle leases and loans on behalf of captive and indirect lender partners. I’d called him after ... [Read More]
Fitch: Easier Underwriting Hitting Auto Asset Quality Metrics
Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2014, 04:22 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Fitch Ratings recently reported that normalizing underwriting terms for U.S. auto loans and leases contributed to a modest deterioration in asset quality metrics during the fourth quarter. Still, firm analysts believe finance companies remain focused on emerging risks tied to ... [Read More]
Questions Arise about Industry’s New Normal
Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2014, 04:17 PM
Nick Zulovich, Editor
From captive finance companies to one-lot buy-here, pay-here dealers, the entire industry is seeing a shift to a ‘new normal,’ which includes smaller down payments, longer terms and negative equity being rolled into a larger financed amount. While metal is ... [Read More]
Subprime Buyers Finding More Financing for New Models
Tuesday, Mar. 4, 2014, 03:54 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Finance companies still aren’t shying away from giving contracts to subprime consumers based on the fourth-quarter information from Experian Automotive. According to its latest State of the Automotive Finance Market report, Experian highlighted today that financing became easier to obtain ... [Read More]
Frazer Integrates with Preferred Warranties’ eContract
Monday, Mar. 3, 2014, 04:58 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Officials highlighted that independent dealers using Frazer management software and offering Preferred Warranties extended service contracts for pre-owned vehicles can now import data from their DMS directly into Preferred’s eContract portal. Preferred’s proprietary eContract program can allow dealers to instantly ... [Read More]
Moody’s Analytics, Equifax Team for Free Webinar
Monday, Mar. 3, 2014, 04:56 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Moody’s Analytics and Equifax are uniting to host a free webinar aimed at answering a pair of questions. Loan originations in automotive are leading the credit rebound, but which lenders are at the forefront and which consumers are they targeting? ... [Read More]
Dealertrack Completes Acquisition of Dealer.com
Monday, Mar. 3, 2014, 04:54 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Dealertrack Technologies today announced the completion of its acquisition of Dealer.com, a provider of comprehensive digital marketing solutions and services for the automotive retail industry. Rick Gibbs, former chief executive officer of Dealer.com and one of its co-founders, will lead ... [Read More]
Latest House Bill Aims at Curbing CFPB’s Authority
Monday, Mar. 3, 2014, 04:52 PM
Nick Zulovich, Editor
During the same week the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau “strongly urged” companies to make credit scores more readily available, a bill passed through the U.S. House aimed at limiting the authority of the bureau, which the measure’s author called, “a ... [Read More]
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