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Industry Elite: Sean Morgan of Westlake Financial
Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Sean Morgan, who is executive vice president of finance and operations at Westlake Financial. Morgan talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby ... Listen Here
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 03:07 PM
Automotive Intelligence Award honoree Tom Kontos of Auto Auction Holdings
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
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Industry Elite: Mike Clark Jr. of C&C Cars
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
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AutoPayPlus sees client demand necessitate 30% growth in workforce
Friday, Jul. 26, 2024, 10:23 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
AutoPayPlus has good reasons to be in a celebratory mood this summer. The payment processing company recently hosted an employee gathering because AutoPayPlus’ workforce has grown by 30% year-over-year, sparked in part because of “innovative business process enhancements, increasing customer ... [Read More]
CFPB circular focuses on whistleblowing guidelines for financial institutions
Thursday, Jul. 25, 2024, 10:39 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is blowing a whistle, so to speak, about whistleblowing. On Wednesday, the bureau issued a circular to law enforcement agencies and regulators explaining how companies may be breaking the law by requiring employees to ... [Read More]
Loanbridge.AI & AutoSquared.AI partner to speed up repossessions & trim impound fees
Wednesday, Jul. 24, 2024, 11:35 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
With Cox Automotive chief economist Jonathan Smoke making note of them this week, vehicle repossessions might be an even higher priority for finance companies nowadays. To help with the situation, Loanbridge.AI and AutoSquared.AI reiterated their partnership is aimed to improve ... [Read More]
Cox Automotive: Average used APR up 80 basis points so far in July
Wednesday, Jul. 24, 2024, 11:33 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Cox Automotive chief economist Jonathan Smoke squeezed in an online video update about auto financing while also being a keynote presenter in San Antonio this week for the Texas Independent Automobile Dealers Association’s annual convention. Citing data collected via Dealertrack, ... [Read More]
Glenview Finance rolls out eContracting platform
Tuesday, Jul. 23, 2024, 11:30 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Glenview Finance’s Credit Builder subprime financing platform recently debuted its new eContracting system. The company said it’s a comprehensive solution that can have deals funded in less than an hour. Glenview Finance sees this new system as dramatically improving the ... [Read More]
Finance companies facing ‘tough’ credit conditions, too
Monday, Jul. 22, 2024, 12:03 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Dealertrack regularly watches what conditions are like for consumers to obtain auto financing; a landscape that’s been tightening in recent months.
What about the credit environment for finance companies to get the resources they need to book originations? Especially in the non-prime and subprime spaces?
While perhaps an interest rate reprieve is arriving sometime this year, Kyle Birch, who is president of North America operations at GM Financial, described the rough sledding the industry is experiencing ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Latest views on fraud & ransomware with Point Predictive’s Frank McKenna
Friday, Jul. 19, 2024, 10:17 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Point Predictive’s Frank McKenna returned for another episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast for a discussion about what’s happening on the fraud front. McKenna recapped his keynote appearance at this year’s Non-Prime Auto Financing Conference hosted by the NAF Association ... [Read More]
Kontos: ‘Inflation dragon has not been slain’
Thursday, Jul. 18, 2024, 11:08 AM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
While members of the Federal Reserve spoke publicly this week about movements associated with inflation and data that’s indicating them, ADESA chief economist Tom Kontos was a little more hesitant when giving his assessment about inflation to Cherokee Media Group. ... [Read More]
ARA reacts to Supreme Court overturning Chevron Doctrine
Wednesday, Jul. 17, 2024, 02:02 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The American Recovery Association board sent an industry message this week, reacting to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision overturning what’s been widely known in legal circles as the Chevron Doctrine. ARA first gave a brief explanation of what the Chevron ... [Read More]
Hellman & Friedman becomes majority investor in Safe-Guard
Wednesday, Jul. 17, 2024, 11:05 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Safe-Guard Products International announced this week that it has closed on a majority investment from Hellman & Friedman, one of the world’s largest private equity firms. Specific financial details were not included in a news release from the provider of ... [Read More]
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