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Sponsored Episode: Winning Trade-Ins and Trust – Navigating Today’s Affordability Challenges
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 03:15 PM
Affordability challenges are reshaping the automotive landscape—vehicle prices and payments are at all-time highs and negative equity is on the rise. In this episode, Micah Tindor offers a data-driven conversation with real-world strategies around acquisition tactics and long-term profitability to ... Listen Here
Sponsored Episode: Winning Talent Strategies for Car Dealerships – with CDK & Industry Leaders
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, 10:00 AM
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, host Bruce Johnson from CDK sits down with Tyler Jones, President of EV Auto, and Joe Brown, CMO at Frank Leta, to explore proven strategies for attracting and retaining top talent ... Listen Here
Dissecting evolving credit scores with Shams Blanc of FICO
Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, 03:34 PM
As much as auto-finance underwriting has become sophisticated, a potential starting point to determine if the applicant will be offered an installment contract is the credit score. Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, described the ... Listen Here

Primeritus names new chief executive

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Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, 03:32 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
As Used Car Week kicked off this Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz., Primeritus Financial Services announced a new chief executive officer. Mike Thomas has been named CEO, and the move is effective immediately.  Thomas succeeds Scott Peters in the position, who joined ... [Read More]

KAR ramps up recovery services with purchase of Clearplan

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Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, 02:39 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
KAR Auction Services today announced it has boosted its asset recovery capabilities with the purchase of Clearplan.  Based in Reno, Nev., Clearplan is a digital platform for recovery agents, drivers, forwarders and lenders that acts as a centralized, mobile “cloud-based ... [Read More]

Fed keeps interest rates steady

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Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, 03:17 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
There’s no doubt about the Federal Reserve’s decision revealed this week to leave interest rates as they are at least for the time being. By a unanimous vote, the Federal Open Market Committee decided to maintain the target range for ... [Read More]

How Location Services is blending diverse backgrounds into one recovery team

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Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, 02:29 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
What Locations Services believes is the recipe for success in the repossession and recovery industries includes taking executives from an array of well-known companies such as Ally Financial, PAR North America and Remarketing of America and fueling them with the ... [Read More]

Top 100 markets where millennials carry most auto debt

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Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, 09:15 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
This week, LendingTree released its study on where millennials owe the most on their financed vehicles. And as they say, everything is bigger in Texas. The results, ranked by median balance, showed where millennials are the most and least burdened ... [Read More]

Consolidated Asset Recovery Systems and DRN enhance working relationship

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Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, 04:55 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Two prominent industry names — Consolidated Asset Recovery Systems and Digital Recognition Network (DRN) — now are working even closer together. The two companies that will each have prominent appearances during Repo Con at Used Car Week 2018 announced on ... [Read More]

AGORA unveils validation report for seasoned contracts

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Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, 05:04 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
AGORA Data is responding to the need for accurate information involving seasoned vehicle installment contracts. On Monday, the secondary loan marketplace announced what that company believes is the release of the first-ever loan validation report for seasoned loans. AGORA’s proprietary ... [Read More]

Secure Collateral Management to leverage MBSi’s compliance management system

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Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, 05:02 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Secure Collateral Management already announced the skip-tracing and collateral recovery provider was moving into a new headquarters. And then Monday, Secure Collateral Management and MBSi Corp. — a member of the Automotive Intelligence Council and provider of repossession assignment software ... [Read More]

New-model prices keep rising as average APR hits highest point in 9 years

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Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, 02:44 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Finance companies continue to fill and expand their portfolios, especially when buying paper attached to a new vehicle that’s becoming more difficult for consumers to afford as transaction prices and interest rates keep climbing. October data shared by Edmunds and ... [Read More]

ARA and TFA to host webinar to share plans for new association

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Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, 03:39 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
At the beginning of October, the American Recovery Association (ARA) and Time Finance Adjusters (TFA) announced plans to form one organization that would launch in January. During a free webinar, the two organizations will present more details of the new ... [Read More]
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