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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

Industry Elite: Chuck Tapp of America’s Group

Friday, Mar. 20, 2026, 01:04 PM

Next up on our series with the inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honorees is America’s Group CEO Chuck Tapp. In this episode, we revisit Tapp’s fireside chat with Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits at Used Car Week 2025. They ... Listen Here

Industry Elite: Grace Huang of Cox Automotive

Thursday, Mar. 19, 2026, 04:49 PM

Kicking off our podcasts with the inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honorees is a conversation with Grace Huang, president of Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions. Huang talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about her journey from business consultant ... Listen Here

MenuMetric, 700Credit finalize F&I integration

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Monday, Jun. 1, 2020, 03:05 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

MenuMetric and 700Credit recently formed an alliance in an effort to help vehicle dealerships as well as marine, RV, and powersports stores. The provider of credit reports, compliance solutions and consumer pre-qualification products and the web-based F&I menu platform offering ... [Read More]

RISC unveils 2 new state-specific collateral recovery certification courses

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Monday, Jun. 1, 2020, 03:03 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Soon after deciding to waive membership and education fees for current and any new RISC Pro members through July 1, RISC launched two additional, state-specific collateral recovery training courses as part of its growing CARS National Certification Program. The compliance ... [Read More]

Portfolio launches revamped reinsurance website

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Friday, May. 29, 2020, 01:52 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Portfolio is looking to make the reinsurance process easier for auto, RV and powersports dealers and independent agents. The dealer participation program provider recently announced the launch of a new website at PortfolioReinsurance.com. Portfolio explained the site was designed to ... [Read More]

iA Financial Group finalizes $720M acquisition of IAS

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Friday, May. 29, 2020, 01:50 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

An acquisition in the F&I space first announced back in December came to a conclusion this week. Officials from iA Financial Corp., the holding company of iA Financial Group, said they have finalized the acquisition of IAS Parent Holdings Inc. and its ... [Read More]

NY Honda dealer settles discrimination allegation from FTC for $1.5M

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Thursday, May. 28, 2020, 02:26 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Discrimination allegations from the Federal Trade Commission against a New York City dealer resulted in a $1.5 million settlement. The FTC announced this week that Bronx Honda and general manager Carlo Fittanto will pay $1.5 million to settle charges they ... [Read More]

Repossession industry reinforces tenuous position with Repo Alliance, ARA whitepaper

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Wednesday, May. 27, 2020, 04:24 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

The repossession industry is taking swift action to position itself to survive the dire situation intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. First, the American Recovery Association (ARA) started an initiative several weeks ago that’s resulted in the Repo Alliance, a fundraising ... [Read More]

Protective Asset Protection’s online dealer training now available

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Wednesday, May. 27, 2020, 04:22 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Perhaps you cannot go to your local public library, but Protective Asset Protection recently made its library of professional development training courses available to all dealership personnel and agents. The provider of F&I programs as well as services and dealer ... [Read More]

Allied Solutions, RDN finalize partnership

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Wednesday, May. 27, 2020, 03:16 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Allied Solutions and Recovery Database Network (RDN) not only operate in the same Indianapolis suburb, but the companies now are partners since they both seek to help auto-finance companies in the same area of their operations. Allied Solutions, one of the ... [Read More]

PODCAST: How TransUnion will monitor auto-finance health going forward

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Tuesday, May. 26, 2020, 01:33 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

Like so many individuals, TransUnion described the auto-finance industry as healthy before the coronavirus pandemic arrived in earnest more than two months ago. And in a special episode of the podcast, TransUnion senior vice president and automotive business leader Satyan ... [Read More]

RISC extends waiver of membership-education subscription fees through July 1

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Friday, May. 22, 2020, 03:28 PM

SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff

After nearly two months of COVID-19 related ordinances and regulations, RISC acknowledged the repossession industry has not opened up in all areas, continuing to pressure recovery agency owners and their staff financially. RISC wants to support agents during this crisis ... [Read More]

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