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Cutting keys & cutting costs during repossessions and recoveries
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:42 PM
Drawing standing-room-only attendance in the second-largest setting at Used Car Week 2025, Ryan Miller led a six-executive panel session that focused on one of the most complex challenges in all of repossessions and recoveries. Now available through this episode of ... Listen Here
Four experts on automotive & the economy
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:39 PM
Used Car Week 2025 again brought together experts who can explain which parts of the economy impact automotive most. This year’s event included views from Laura Wehunt of Black Book, Tim Gill of the American Financial Services Association, T.J. Cox ... Listen Here
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

Current amount of subprime paper is ‘probably a good thing’

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Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, 03:36 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
With subprime paper representing only about 16 percent of the total outstanding auto finance balance figure TransUnion reported for the third quarter, the bureau’s top industry analyst indicated that’s not too much lower-end paper currently in portfolios. “Overall, it’s probably ... [Read More]

Finance industry reaction to Trump victory

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Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, 05:21 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
The historic result of Tuesday’s presidential election created rippling reactions throughout the financial services community, with many organization leaders looking forward to working with President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-led Congress. “I would say that just like the rest of the ... [Read More]

DealerVault claims 13 of top 25 dealer groups leverage its data platform

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Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, 05:19 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
According to DealerVault, its objective is to protect the “dealership data goldmine.” It’s all of the customer data that might have arrived through website leads, the F&I office or the service drive. With some industry analysts’ expectations of customer data ... [Read More]

Credit Acceptance Q4 origination volume off to soft start

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Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, 03:46 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
While still making healthy gains in consolidated net income, Credit Acceptance chief executive officer Brett Roberts pointed to data the subprime finance company shared as part of its third-quarter financial statement to explain how competitive the market is to grow ... [Read More]

8 judges picked for F&I Innovator of the Year Competition

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Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, 05:11 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
EFG Companies, together with Northwood University, recently announced the judging panel in the 2016 F&I Innovator of the Year competition. Representing all automotive brands spanning across the country, the eight-member blue-ribbon judging panel brings extensive experience and expertise in understanding ... [Read More]

Average balances hit highest point in 7 years

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Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, 05:08 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
According to TransUnion’s Q3 2016 Industry Insights Report powered by Prama analytics, total auto financing balances grew by 9 percent year-over-year during the third quarter. TransUnion pegged the total balance reading at $1.1 trillion, up from $1.01 trillion in Q3 ... [Read More]

Auto ABS losses climb for 3rd straight month

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Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, 03:49 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
With one subprime metric jumping to the second-highest point in 15 years, the latest monthly auto loan ABS index from Fitch Ratings released this week showed that losses for U.S. auto ABS continue their steady climb. As a result, analysts noticed ... [Read More]

DRN participating in free webinar to make repossessions more efficient

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Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, 03:47 PM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
SubPrime Forum presenting sponsor Digital Recognition Network (DRN) is participating in a free webinar to help finance companies and repossession agents to be more efficient and save precious time — and money — by better using their historical license plate ... [Read More]

PointPredictive finds fraud in auto financing & mortgages follows similar risk patterns

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Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, 04:23 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
PointPredictive, a provider of machine learning fraud solutions, recently announced the results of a new study that detected high levels of fraud in early payment auto finance contract defaults. The firm explained its study encompassed data from millions of auto ... [Read More]

Prestige Financial completes $343M portfolio securitization

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Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, 04:20 AM
SubPrime Auto Finance News Staff
Prestige Financial Services recently completed its 15th rated term securitization, issuing $343.6 million in securities backed by $369.46 million in automobile installment receivables. In a transaction led jointly by Wells Fargo Securities and J.P. Morgan Securities, the finance company highlighted ... [Read More]
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