Edmunds on why appeal of used EVs could surge as gas prices keep rising & affordability remains challenging
Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2026, 10:30 AM
PODCAST: Carleton’s Tim Yalich on how critical accurate payment information is to today’s car shoppers
Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2026, 10:57 AM
Already the top factor holding back dealership business, potential economic headwinds build
Monday, Mar. 9, 2026, 10:53 AM
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
Monday, Mar. 23, 2026, 01:56 PM
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
Friday, Mar. 20, 2026, 03:50 PM
defi SOLUTIONS & Open Lending expand partnership to help captives
Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, 04:11 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
For captive finance companies interested in buying paper lower on the credit spectrum, assistance is coming later this year from defi SOLUTIONS, which recently announced expansion of its partnership with Open Lending. The service providers highlighted the expansion includes an ... [Read More]
Auto defaults close 2021 by rising for 6 straight months
Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, 04:14 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Perhaps executives and managers associated with auto collections, repossessions and recoveries are sending each other messages with a GIF attached featuring the character Michael Scott from the popular TV show, “The Office,” with him yelling, “It’s happening!” According to December ... [Read More]
SCUSA gives $35M grant to ‘bridge the digital divide’
Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, 04:30 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Santander Consumer USA is looking to be a financial resource not just in vehicle deliveries. Coinciding with the Martin Luther King Holiday, SCUSA announced on Monday that it is partnering with technology and community nonprofit Comp-U-Dopt to help “bridge the ... [Read More]
Experian & Oliver Wyman see path to score 96% of credit applicants
Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, 04:28 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
It’s a challenge non-prime and subprime auto finance companies face regularly inside their underwriting departments. An application lands from a consumer with a thin credit file or one who isn’t scored at all. Experian and Oliver Wyman recently found expanded ... [Read More]
Exeter reveals CFO succession plan
Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, 03:51 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
After the closing of the company’s sale to an investor group led by Warburg Pincus as well as an expansion of its origination strategy last month, more significant changes at Exeter Finance came late on Thursday. The non-prime auto finance ... [Read More]
StoneEagle promotes another exec, this time to be chief customer officer
Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, 03:43 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
For the second time this week, StoneEagle elevated one of its internal executives into an expanded leadership role. On Friday, the provider of F&I and service metrics for the past 35 years named Kathy Burns as its new chief customer ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Talking the economy & credit unions with NAFCU’s Curt Long
Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, 02:25 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Curt Long, chief economist and vice president at the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions (NAFCU), put the general economy into car terms, explaining in this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast if the economy is like a car that’s ... [Read More]
Car Capital opens 2022 with 2 new financial resources
Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022, 04:17 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Car Capital began 2022 by staying on the brisk development trajectory it established when launching last spring. The new auto-finance technology company that strives to get any deal bought no matter the consumer credit background closed on another round of ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Dangerous and disgusting scenes repo agents face nowadays
Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022, 04:06 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Bryanna Cox takes listeners of the Auto Remarketing Podcast into one of the most difficult, yet vital, parts of the automotive industry. The vice president of Asset Resolutions, a full-service repossession and recovery agency in Kingwood, Texas, described how repossession ... [Read More]
Auto financing availability ticks slightly higher to finish 2021
Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, 03:17 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Well, perhaps auto financing is starting to look more like it did before the pandemic wreaked havoc on so much of our daily lives. Cox Automotive said that access to auto credit expanded slightly in December, based on the Dealertrack Auto ... [Read More]
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