Stop letting messy data hold your dealership back from its true earning potential. While many multi-roof dealer groups struggle to...
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Deeper dive into rising LTVs with TransUnion’s Satyan Merchant
One of the notable findings from TransUnion’s Q2 2026 Credit Industry Insights Report (CIIR) was how much loan-to-value ratios have changed in the past five years. Satyan Merchant, one of this year’s Automotive Intelligence Award recipients and senior vice president ... Listen Here
PayNearMe chief product officer John Minor on intersection of payments & technology
PayNearMe recently shared new search, explaining that hidden costs sustained by auto lenders can show up as failed payments, borrower support calls, late payments, collections follow-up, reconciliation work and manual recovery effort. PayNearMe chief product officer John Minor elaborated about ... Listen Here
Matt Babcock of Wolters Kluwer on how digital transformation continues to gain steam in auto financing
Matt Babcock, who heads up digital lending product strategy for Wolters Kluwer, returned for another visit on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Wolter Kluwer recently released its latest quarterly Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index. Babcock recapped the sustained upward trajectory the ... Listen Here
Retail
Dealer group news: M&A in Va., GNYADA receives trade association honors
Charlie Obaugh Auto Group has added its first Ford dealership. The Virginia-based, family-owned dealer group has acquired Campus Ford in Waynesboro, Va., from Matt McMurray, according to a news release from Performance Brokerage Services, which was the buy-side advisor on ... [Read More]
Illinois Ford dealer receives 2026 Ally Sees Her Award
This week’s 46th annual National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers (NAMAD) Conference wrapped up with Ally Financial announcing the winner of the 2026 Ally Sees Her Award. The honor, presented by Ally and NAMAD annually to recognize significant achievements of ... [Read More]
Wholesale
Publicly traded wholesale vehicle marketplaces show strength in 2026
As the National Auto Auction Association reported last month through its AuctionNet data, the opening six months of 2026 marked the strongest first half for auction vehicle sales in seven years. There were nearly 3.7 million vehicle sales at AuctionNet-participating ... [Read More]
Off-lease surge, repos, point to auction industry strength
Annual depreciation for used vehicles on average has been historically between about 16 and 18%. Last year that figure was 13%, said Larry Dixon, vice president of Auction Data Solutions/AuctionNet at the National Auto Auction Association. “This year we’re trending ... [Read More]
Technology
PromptPath uses AI to help dealers make phone calls (between actual humans) more effective
A trio of veteran automotive technology executives — Jason Barrie, Amit Maheshwari and Max Steckler — have teamed up to launch PromptPath, an artificial intelligence-enabled person-to-person conversation platform for the auto industry. The new platform aims to help sales, F&I ... [Read More]
Revenues up 7% at Mobility Global, parent to Carfax, Market Scan & others
Mobility Global Inc., which launched as an independent public company on July 1, has released its financial results for the second quarter ending June 30. The company — whose core brands include IHS Markit, Polk, automotiveMastermind, Market Scan and Carfax ... [Read More]
Analysis
Used commercial market finds ‘renewed transaction velocity’ in Q2
Fleets have been getting more mileage out of their work trucks and vans — quite literally. According to the Q2 2026 Commercial Vehicle Market Analysis from Work Truck Solutions, median mileage on work trucks and vans came in at 77,507 ... [Read More]
‘Used cars aren’t cheap,’ but pricing pressure eases
Like NASA’s Artemis II mission in April, retail used-car prices rocketed into orbit this spring. And slowly but surely, “they’ve come back to down to earth.” Just not at astronomical speeds, says CARFAX, known for its history reports on more ... [Read More]
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