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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

F&I Sentinel to acquire cancellation tool from Cox Automotive

Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, 10:41 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

For the second time in a little more than a month, Cox Automotive is liquidating an asset. On Tuesday, F&I Sentinel announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Express Recoveries from Cox Automotive. As part of the transaction, ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Wide-ranging F&I conversation with Travis Wools of Protective Asset Protection

Podcast

Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, 10:58 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

In this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, we reconnect with Travis Wools of Protective Asset Protection to recap the company’s latest dealer survey about F&I and more. Wools shared how dealers are approaching traditional F&I activities as well as ... [Read More]

A2C expands availability of compliance solutions via NCM

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Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, 10:40 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Two dealership service providers want stores to be ready for what the Federal Trade Commission is asking them to do, so they formed a new partnership this week. Accelerate2Compliance (A2C) announced the expanded availability of its dealership compliance solutions through ... [Read More]

NCC welcomes another former Cox Automotive executive as CRO

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Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, 10:40 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

National Credit Center (NCC), a provider of credit, identity verification, compliance, and soft pull solutions, serving dealerships nationwide, welcomed another former Cox Automotive executive to its leadership team this week. The company named Jay Nieman as its chief revenue officer ... [Read More]

Fed governor reiterates when interest rates might soften

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Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, 11:23 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Earlier this week, one of the members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors made her third public appearance since Thanksgiving; this time hinting when interest rates might soften. Michelle Bowman gave a speech during the South Carolina Bankers Association’s ... [Read More]

USED CAR WEEK 2023 PODCAST: Path to improved repossession & remarketing logistics

Podcast

Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, 11:05 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

We continue our series on the Auto Remarketing Podcast highlighting some of the panels and presentations from Used Car Week 2023. This episode features a dealer panel titled, “Building the Bridge for Lenders to Improve Remarketing Logistics.” The session was ... [Read More]

PODCAST: New EFG Companies president & CEO with 2024 outlook

Podcast

Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, 11:05 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

In one of her first public appearances as the new president and CEO of the company, Jennifer Rappaport of EFG Companies joined chief revenue officer Eric Fifield for this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Rappaport, who most recently was ... [Read More]

Former Equifax legal expert now with Hudson Cook

Another former Manheim Canada exec joins Otolane

Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, 11:03 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Hudson Cook expanded its credit reporting, privacy, and data security practice group with a legal expert whose last position was with one of the service providers in that specific space. This week, the law firm announced the addition of Jason ... [Read More]

Open Lending research: Near- and non-prime consumers face shrinking access

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Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, 10:17 AM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Open Lending highlighted three main findings from its first Near- and Non-Prime Consumer Update, a quarterly proprietary data report on automotive finance trends in the near- and non-prime credit segments. Researchers found not only how much originations in that credit ... [Read More]

USED CAR WEEK 2023 PODCAST: How repossession management is changing

Podcast

Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, 07:03 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

We continue our series on the Auto Remarketing Podcast highlighting some of the panels and presentations from Used Car Week 2023. This episode features a panel discussion titled, “The Changing Landscape of Repossession Management.” The session included Suzi Straffon of ... [Read More]

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