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
Carfax Canada-ISB Global integration adds another weapon in battle against fraud
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Carfax Canada is extending its reach in fighting VIN fraud. The provider of vehicle history reports is expanding its partnership with ISB Global Services, an information services firm that serves insurance companies, to integrate Carfax’s VIN Scan capability into ISB ... [Read More]
J.D. Power exec named new CEO of PAVE as co-founder moves into advisory role
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
PAVE’s co-founder is stepping down as CEO, and a J.D. Power executive is stepping in. The Toronto-based provider of artificial intelligence-powered vehicle inspection technology said Kenny DellaPorta has been appointed CEO, while co-founder and current CEO Brian Steinhauser transitions to ... [Read More]
Grand opening event celebrates EBlock’s first ‘omnichannel experience center’
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
EBlock celebrated its new “omnichannel experience center” in Halifax, Nova Scotia with a grand opening event. The company called last week’s event “a significant milestone” in its commitment to deliver “an evolved and seamless approach” to wholesale vehicle transactions by ... [Read More]
Clutch adds former Carvana executive to help scale its online used-car business
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
A Canadian online used-car retailer is adding an executive who had a hand in the explosive growth of a U.S. counterpart. Richard Ball, who led Carvana’s inspection operation from 2016-2022, has joined Clutch as chief production officer. Clutch said Ball ... [Read More]
CFLA selects Meridian OneCap’s Swandel as its new board chair
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Hugh Swandel, president of Meridian OneCap Credit Corp., has been named the new chair of the Canadian Finance and Leasing Association. The association introduced its new leader during its 2025 annual conference, held last week in Swandel’s hometown of Winnipeg. ... [Read More]
Service visits rising as Canadians keep vehicles longer in face of high car prices
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
As car prices rise, so do trips to the repair shop. That correlation was illustrated neatly by J.D Power’s latest research, which showed dealership service department visits at their highest level in four years. The J.D. Power 2025 Canada Customer ... [Read More]
Report shows high volume doesn’t equal high profits in service department
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
In November, many Canadians flock to their dealership service departments to have snow tires put on their vehicles. While that might seem like a windfall, a new report from Reynolds and Reynolds shows that’s not exactly the case. The annual ... [Read More]
PODCAST: A look back at last 2 decades of used-car industry in Canada
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
In the grand finale of our podcast episodes from Canada’s Used Car Week in June, conference chair and Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits is joined by Brad Hart and Peter Snoyer on a panel celebrating the 20th anniversary of ... [Read More]
Carfax Canada launches new weapon to fight Canada’s VIN Clone Wars
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
The Clone Wars aren’t just in a galaxy far, far away. They’re right here on the roads in Canada. Cloned VINs are fact, not science fiction. According to data from Carfax Canada, VIN cloning — a type of auto fraud ... [Read More]
Hyundai Hope on Wheels donates $100,000 to Alberta hospital to support childhood cancer patients
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Hyundai Canada’s charitable foundation, Hyundai Hope on Wheels, took another big step toward its goal with $100,000 donation to the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation to support children and youth receiving cancer care at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary. Hyundai Canada ... [Read More]
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