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Arvest Bank sees early successes with FICO Auto Score 10
Arvest Bank — a regional, full-service lender with more than 200 locations throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri — recently upgraded to FICO Auto Score 10 in a move to give the institution a more precise view of borrower risk ... Read More
COMMENTARY: The secret to accelerating funding in indirect auto lending
In the early 2000s, I sat at a dealership finance desk with a calculator, a stack of pay stubs, and a phone that wouldn’t stop ringing. I gathered stips by hand, calculated income line by line, and verified insurance, hoping ... Read More
Mercedes-Benz USA approves NETSOL as a digital retail provider for its dealerships
NETSOL Technologies recently highlighted Mercedes-Benz USA has approved NETSOL as a digital retail provider for Mercedes-Benz dealerships. This move opens the brand’s dealer network to Transcend Retail, NETSOL’s digital retail platform. The platform gives buyers a single, continuous purchase experience, ... Read More
SPONSORED EPISODE: Prospects for more auto refinancing with Gravity Lending
In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast brought to you by Allied Solutions, we turn our attention to auto refinancing. Brad Paxman oversees 90 lender relationships for Gravity Lending, which is an auto refinance and fintech company ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Fame: Bob McConkey of McConkey Auction Group
Next up on our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees is a conversation with Bob McConkey, president and CEO of the McConkey Auction Group. McConkey, along with MAG chief operating officer David Pendergraft and DAA ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: What independent dealers need to be successful with Chris Vangellow of Frazer
In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Chris Vangellow, who is the Director of Product Management at Frazer, described what’s changed most about running an independent dealership over the past few years, especially from a technology perspective. ... Listen Here
Retail
Group 1-Hennessy deal, valued at $1.3 billion, officially closes
A deal estimated to be the third largest in auto retail history has closed. Group 1 Automotive’s purchase of Atlanta-based Hennessy Automobile Companies, which was first announced in late July, closed on Oct. 19, the seller’s advisor Kerrigan Advisors said ... [Read More]
Dealer M&A: Lithia, Anderson Automotive expand in Southeast
Lithia & Driveway has acquired four Kia and Hyundai dealerships in Memphis, Tenn., from Gossett Motor Cars, more than doubling the retailer’s footprint in the city. That’s according to a news release from Kerrigan Advisors, which represented the seller. The ... [Read More]
Wholesale
PODCAST: Used Car Week Hall of Fame honoree Bob McConkey
Next up on our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees is a conversation with Bob McConkey, president and CEO of the McConkey Auction Group. McConkey, along with MAG chief operating officer David Pendergraft and DAA ... [Read More]
Q&A with Jackie Malik of Credit Acceptance, the 2026 National Remarketing Executive of the Year
Below is a Q&A with Jackie Malik, remarketing manager at Credit Acceptance, who is the 2026 National Remarketing Executive of the Year, a Used Car Week award sponsored by the Independent Auction Group. What are the top trends you’re watching ... [Read More]
Technology
Lefkoff Law: ‘Trickle down’ to dealers of VinSolutions’ security incident ‘could be enormous’
Lefkoff Law principal and founding attorney Steven Lefkoff immediately arrived at this assertion when he learned that Cox Automotive on Monday acknowledged “suspicious activity” that was “quickly contained” within VinSolutions. “The trickle down to the dealers could be enormous because ... [Read More]
Open Auto forms alliance to ‘develop shared standards’ around AI in automotive
When multiple, separate entities independently develop and implement technologies, siloes can happen. As artificial intelligence and other tech innovations grow, a new initiative in the auto industry is looking to help make sure that doesn’t happen by focusing on “developing ... [Read More]
Analysis
Turn times, prices rise faster for used EVs than gas & hybrid vehicles
Prices for 1- to 5-year-old used electric vehicles have risen significantly faster than their hybrid and gas-powered counterparts in the last year, according to an analysis by iSeeCars.com. Once thousands of dollars cheaper, used EVs are now close to $600 ... [Read More]
COMMENTARY: Auto transportation costs are changing the economics of vehicle acquisition
A vehicle can look like a great buy at auction until a dealership factors in what it will cost to get it to the lot. Transportation has always been part of the cost of acquiring inventory for a dealership. But ... [Read More]
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