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
HGreg sniffs out a marketing opportunity with pizza-scented car air freshener
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
There’s nothing better than that new-car smell – unless it’s the aroma of a freshly-baked pizza. So, what if you could get that tantalizing scent in your car even when you’re not bringing a pizza home? Well, you can do ... [Read More]
CBB reports note tariff impacts on Canadian used-car market
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
The 25% U.S. tariff on imported vehicles and Canadian reprisals weren’t in place in March. But the threat of those tariffs and the expectations of consumers, automakers and dealers were already making a tangible impact on the Canadian used-car market ... [Read More]
Wholesale Express launches new brand identity, Ontario expansion
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Wholesale Express has a new look. The Canadian B2B digital marketplace specializing in vehicle auctions has launched a new brand identity, which the company said marks “a major milestone” in its evolution. In a news release, Wholesale Express said it’s ... [Read More]
Safe-Guard to assume administration of Subaru Canada protection products, including CPO
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Subaru Canada and Safe-Guard Products International announced a multi-year partnership this week that’s designed to broaden the automaker’s vehicle protection programs throughout Canada. As part of the partnership, Safe-Guard — which is a platform provider of private-label protection products in ... [Read More]
AutoVerify integrates CARFAX Canada data into traffic conversion tools
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
AutoVerify and CARFAX Canada have teamed up for a partnership designed to help dealers provide more accurate vehicle valuations and create a better experience for car shoppers. The collaboration integrates CARFAX Canada’s vehicle valuation capability into AutoVerify’s traffic-conversion tools on ... [Read More]
Axis shareholders to vote on going private as subprime lender gets set to shut down
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Axis Auto Finance has already gone out of business, but dissolving the company is going to take more time. The Mississauga-based direct-to-consumer subprime lender will hold a meeting May 30 to ask shareholders to approve a special resolution to complete ... [Read More]
Autocorp.ai teams with CBB to automate dealership inventory matching
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Autocorp.ai has partnered with Canadian Black Book to launch a new tool to help Canadian dealerships identify vehicles that fit their customers’ financial situation. AVA MatchBook provides automation designed to match lender approvals with dealership inventory to save time and ... [Read More]
HGreg earns CADA Award nomination for business innovation
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
When it comes to awards, it seems HGreg is already having a banner year. The Québec-based dealership group announced this week it has been nominated for a 2024 Laureate Award in the Business Innovation category. The award, presented by the ... [Read More]
Small decline in Canadian used-car wholesale market as tariffs take effect
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
The U.S.’s long-awaited — and feared — 25% auto tariff is in effect, and at least for the moment, its effect on Canada’s used-car wholesale market has yet to be seen. A week after posting its first increase in three ... [Read More]
CreditApp launches dealer-branded finance portal for Canadian dealerships
Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
CreditApp Technologies wants to give car dealers the credit … for providing credit. The Calgary-based provider of indirect lending software has introduced a branded dealer financing portal for Canadian automotive and powersports dealers, a tool it’s touting as the first ... [Read More]
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