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Industry Elite: Sean Morgan of Westlake Financial
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 03:07 PM
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
Automotive Intelligence Award honoree Tom Kontos of Auto Auction Holdings
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 01:56 PM
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
Industry Elite: Mike Clark Jr. of C&C Cars
Friday, Mar. 20, 2026, 03:50 PM
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

Jim Bass to receive Jack Tracey Pinnacle Award

Jim Bass to receive Jack Tracey Pinnacle Award
Wednesday, May. 15, 2024, 12:41 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Last year, the National Automotive Finance Association established the Jack Tracey Pinnacle Award to recognize a professional at a member organization with enduring service to the non-prime auto finance industry. The award is named in honor of one of the ... [Read More]

Launcher & Gestalt Tech partner for enhanced credit data storage, reporting & analytics

Launcher & Gestalt in credit data deal
Wednesday, May. 15, 2024, 11:47 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Last week, Launcher Solutions announced an integration partnership with Gestalt Tech and its SaaS data warehouse that can empower finance companies to take advantage of the market trends in analytics, artificial intelligence and automation. The companies said this collaboration can ... [Read More]

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Turn Service Visits Into Sales Growth: A GM’s Checklist

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The Dealer’s Guide to Smarter GPS Tracking

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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Used Car Turn Vendor Management Checklist

Vehicles touch multiple vendors before they ever hit the lot, and when approvals, communication, and invoices are scattered, delays are...
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Open Lending & Core Specialty Insurance Holdings form partnership

Open Lending & Core Specialty partner on credit default insuranceOpen Lending & Core Specialty partner on credit default insurance
Wednesday, May. 15, 2024, 11:44 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Open Lending Corp. recently partnered with Core Specialty Insurance Holdings, enabling Core Specialty to begin providing credit default insurance policies for Open Lending’s Lenders Protection platform. Open Lending interim CEO Chuck Jehl said through a news release, “One of the ... [Read More]

Access to auto credit tightened slightly in April

Access to auto credit tightened slightly in April
Tuesday, May. 14, 2024, 09:53 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Perhaps if your tax season didn’t meet your shop’s expectations, the latest reading of the Dealertrack Credit Availability Index could help explain why. Cox Automotive reported last week that the index declined to 93.8 in April, which was down 0.7% ... [Read More]

‘Extraordinary milestone’ for ComplyAuto by welcoming Miller

‘Extraordinary milestone’ for ComplyAuto by welcoming Miller
Monday, May. 13, 2024, 11:16 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
ComplyAuto reached an “extraordinary milestone” on Monday, announcing that former National Automobile Dealers Association regulatory expert Brad Miller is joining the company as chief regulatory and compliance officer and head of legal. Miller spent more than 16 years at NADA ... [Read More]

PODCAST: NAF Association update with executive director Jennifer Martin

Podcast
Monday, May. 13, 2024, 11:15 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
National Automotive Finance Association executive director Jennifer Martin had a lot of positive developments to share in this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast. The organization is using technology to grow and serve its membership while also preparing for a ... [Read More]

Hyundai captive settles with DOJ over alleged SCRA infractions

Hyundai captive settles with DOJ over alleged SCRA infractions
Friday, May. 10, 2024, 10:14 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Justice Department and Hyundai’s captive finance company settled allegations this week involving repossessed vehicles. Officials announced on Wednesday that Hyundai Capital America has agreed to pay $333,941 to resolve allegations that it violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) ... [Read More]

New Experian tool taps into banking activities to enhance underwriting

Experian: Bank data boosts loan approvals
Friday, May. 10, 2024, 10:12 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Experian rolled out a new tool on Thursday to help finance companies and other lenders work with consumers who might not be in the prime space or have robust credit histories. The company announced the launch of Cashflow Attributes, a ... [Read More]

TransUnion: Gen Z using credit more than millennial counterparts at same age

Gen Z outpaces Millennials in credit use: TransUnion
Thursday, May. 9, 2024, 11:26 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The title of a project TransUnion released on Thursday at its 2024 Financial Services Summit (attended by nearly 300 global financial services executives) might have given some frightening flashbacks of struggles with algebra. The new TransUnion study — Solving for ... [Read More]

CFPB report: More complexity results in added costs for consumers

Wednesday, May. 8, 2024, 11:35 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a new report last week that suggested consumers tend to pay more for products that have more complex pricing structures, including auto financing. The CFPB said this report is based on experiments with multiple ... [Read More]

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