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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

EFG Companies brings on chief information officer

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Wednesday, Sep. 21, 2022, 03:07 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

EFG Companies announced the expansion its C-suite leadership on Tuesday. Coming aboard as chief information officer to reinforce company’s commitment and support of the rapidly evolving consumer protection product industry is Joe Vide. According to a news release, Vide will ... [Read More]

Younger Americans more positive about their financial future

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Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2022, 02:13 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

While Cox Automotive mentioned that overall consumer sentiment has been steadily improving, TransUnion discovered the youngest generations continue to be more optimistic about their financial future in the next 12 months than their older counterparts. The latest TransUnion Consumer Pulse ... [Read More]

FTC distributing payments to consumers impacted by shutdown dealers in Ariz. & NM

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Monday, Sep. 19, 2022, 03:50 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

The Federal Trade Commission announced last week that it began sending payments to consumers impacted by dealerships operating in Arizona and New Mexico that the regulator shut down two years ago. The FTC said it is sending payments totaling more ... [Read More]

Open Lending stretches terms to 84 months

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Monday, Sep. 19, 2022, 03:47 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Open Lending is stretching terms to help credit unions book more paper, especially with potential customers who land in the near or non-prime credit tiers. Last week, the lending enablement and risk analytics solutions provider announced it will offer its ... [Read More]

TurboPass adds 2 new board members

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Friday, Sep. 16, 2022, 02:43 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

TurboPass announced the appointment of two new members to its board of directors this week. Now part of the leadership structure for the fintech firm that helps dealerships and finance companies during the underwriting process are Mark Vazquez, who is ... [Read More]

Launcher reinforces CARFAX integration to boost underwriting

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Friday, Sep. 16, 2022, 02:38 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Launcher, a technology provider specializing in originations, recently enhanced its integrated access to CARFAX Vehicle History Reports inside its core product — appTRAKER Loan Origination System — so finance companies have “additional ammo in their artillery.” According to a news ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Why ‘rehashing the deal’ remains valuable F&I tool

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Thursday, Sep. 15, 2022, 01:48 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Becky Chernek of Chernek Consulting appeared on the Auto Remarketing Podcast for her monthly visit to discuss F&I strategy. During this episode, Chernek explained why “rehashing the deal” can be a valuable process that can help dealerships, finance companies and ... [Read More]

White paper examines cloud technology for managing consumer debt communications

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Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2022, 04:33 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Nordis Technologies recently unveiled a new white paper that asserted cloud-based customer communications management (CCM) technology enables billing and collections firms to keep up with proliferating rules and requirements for how they are allowed to communicate with consumers about delinquent ... [Read More]

Cox Automotive: Auto credit tightens for fourth straight month

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Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2022, 03:24 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Cox Automotive spotted a potential reason if your store is having more trouble getting deals bought through your network of finance companies. Access to auto credit declined for the fourth straight month in August, according to the Dealertrack Credit Availability ... [Read More]

Primeritus elevates Conners to be COO

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Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2022, 02:44 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

The leadership transformation of Primeritus Financial Services continued with an announcement the provider of recovery management, skip-tracing and remarketing shared on Monday. Already with a new chief executive officer and chief financial officer in place, Primeritus said it has promoted ... [Read More]

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