Randall McCathren is a national authority on
Retail Vehicle Leasing and
Financing. As President and General Counsel of BLC Associates, he specializes in auto finance and lease regulatory compliance, wholesale lending; residual risk management, residual value insurance auditing and analysis, financial analysis and modeling of portfolio performance, lease and loan program design, and end-of-term lease remarketing and telemarketing.
Mr. McCathren has designed a number of
analytic software packages for lease pricing and
evaluation of lease program performance and
profitability. He is frequently cited in both the trade and popular press on his assessments of the auto leasing business including:
The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Forbes, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Business Week and
Automotive News, and has made numerous television appearances on behalf of the industry.
Mr. McCathren is the co-author of the only two books devoted exclusively to the technical requirements of the vehicle leasing business:
The Automobile Lending and Leasing Manual (1989) and the
Essentials of Consumer Vehicle Leasing (1985), as well as
Auto Financing Update.
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