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
Kia Canada announces CPOs must earn CARPROOF VHR badge
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Kia Canada and CARPROOF recently announced that in an effort to make used-car transactions more transparent, all vehicles in Kia’s CPO program must now qualify for the CARPROOF Top Condition badge found on the company’s VHRs. Kia Canada CPO vehicles ... [Read More]
ADESA Canada promotes 2 to VP roles
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
ADESA announced Monday that it has promoted Eddy Cusan to vice president of commercial sales and Wesley Kent to the newly created position of vice president of programs and operations for ADESA Canada. In 2007, Cusan started as a program ... [Read More]
Element Fleet promotes Gittens to president of Canadian operations
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Element Fleet Management has promoted Chris Gittens to serve as president of Canadian operations, the company announced Wednesday. Gittens succeeds Sebastien Blondin, who has taken on a strategic business development role with the Element Fleet Management corporate team. “Since 2012, ... [Read More]
AutoCanada to acquire 1st Mazda dealership
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
AutoCanada recently announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire 90 percent of the issued and outstanding shares of the Planete Mazda dealership, which has operated for nearly 30 years in the greater Montreal region on the north ... [Read More]
New eBlock COO boosts post-ops and prepares for redesign launch
Sarah Rubenoff , Correspondent
Jason McClenahan, chief operating officer at eBlock, has been in the auction industry his entire career. In fact, it’s the only job he’s ever had, the new COO of this growing digital auto auction company told Auto Remarketing Canada. McClenahan ... [Read More]
Hyundai’s new CPO program designed for ‘customers and dealers’
Sarah Rubenoff , Correspondent
Hyundai Auto Canada’s new certified pre-owned program, known as H Promise, was launched last year and is designed to be a product that adapts to its market environment. Joel Gregory, national sales manager for CPO and remarketing at Hyundai Auto ... [Read More]
Dealertrack Canada adds Nissan, Infiniti financial arm to credit app network
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Dealertrack Canada announced Tuesday that the company has added the financial arm of the Nissan and Infiniti brands in Canada to its online credit application network. The new partnership enables Nissan and Infiniti dealers in Canada to now secure financing for customers from Nissan ... [Read More]
Canada Drives founder aims to help consumers, dealers
Joe Overby, Senior Editor
Cody Green was working at Saskatoon Hyundai some eight years ago when he started to notice a common challenge for consumers in the car-buying process. And that started the idea for what today is known as Canada Drives, a company ... [Read More]
NAFTA renegotiations could impact Canadian automakers
Sarah Rubenoff , Staff Writer
Record new-vehicle sales are boosting Canadian automaker’s performances. But that might not be the case for long. The Conference Board of Canada warned in a report that Canadian auto exports could be at risk under North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ... [Read More]
TRADER adds Dealer Drive digital test drive tracking app to roster
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
TRADER Corp. announced Tuesday a new partnership with Dealer Drive to bring the Australian-based technology company’s app-based digital test drive tracking and analytics solution to dealers across Canada. The solution has been added to TRADER’s existing roster of efficiency and ... [Read More]
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