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Additional insight into FTC’s move involving disparate impact from Hudson Cook
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced it will not pursue claims based on disparate-impact or “unfair discrimination” theories. In this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Hudson Cook partners Erica Kramer and Rob Tilley offered some historical perspectives and a ... Listen Here
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

10 assertions from TransUnion study on Canadian fintech borrowers

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Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Fintech isn’t limited just to Silicon Valley. TransUnion spotted fintech developments leaving impacts in the Oil Patch, MTA and Vancouver, too. A new study released this week by TransUnion explored the evolving trends around the fintech lender landscape in Canada, ... [Read More]

Awards highlight best-ever retained value industry average

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Auto Remarketing Canada staff
The retained value for all vehicles in Canada measured for this year’s 13th annual Canadian Black Book Best Retained Value Awards show that 4-year-old vehicles (2016 model-year) held what Canadian Black Book describes as “an astounding” 57% of original MSRP, ... [Read More]

PayLink Direct’s service contract payment program now available in Canada

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Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
PayLink Direct — a financial services company that specializes in providing interest-free payment plans for the purchase of service contracts for vehicles, RVs, homes, commercial trucks and other products — now is available in Canada. According to a news release, ... [Read More]

Used-vehicle prices high for market returnees

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Sarah Rubenoff, Correspondent
Consumers drive the auto market. And the F&I office seals the deals. But if consumers can’t get the price they want, especially in the used market, there’s cause for concern. On the other hand, a race to the bottom — ... [Read More]

Online retailer Clutch launches in Toronto

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Auto Remarketing Canada staff
Pre-owned vehicle online retailer Clutch has launched its service in the greater Toronto area. The company started operations in Halifax in 2017, describing itself as an alternative to buying a car from a traditional dealership or privately from an individual. ... [Read More]

Automakers get quick start to CPO in 2020

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Joe Overby, Senior Editor
A few automakers have shared their January certified pre-owned sales results with Auto Remarketing Canada, and it appears they are off to a quick start.  For example, Hyundai’s H-Promise certified pre-owned program had its best January ever, moving 852 units. That ... [Read More]

New vice president to lead AutoVIN Canadian operations

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Auto Remarketing Canada Staff
Almost 20 years ago, Gilles Pellerin joined Quadrex, and that company was sold to DataScan in 2006. AutoVIN acquired the combined company in 2015, and the company says Pellerin played an important role in ensuring a smooth merger between AutoVIN ... [Read More]

Streamlining the process for consumers, lenders and dealers: From AI to alternative data

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Sarah Rubenoff, Correspondent
Vladimir Kovacevic, founder and chief technology officer at Inovatec Systems, laughingly says Apple and Google have ruined it for all of us. That was how an enlightening interview with the tech-minded entrepreneur began. Kovacevic helps run Inovatec, which provides lending ... [Read More]

Cox collaboration aims to bridge online and in-store experience gap

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Auto Remarketing Canada staff
Through a strategic collaboration between automotive business-to-consumer (B2C) chat company RAPID RTC and Cox Automotive Canada, RAPID RTC will integrate its chat service into Cox Automotive Canada’s Dealer.com and Dealertrack Digital Retailing systems. That, according to the companies, will “combine the ... [Read More]

COMMENTARY: How better marketing attribution can shift the course of the auto industry, one match at a time

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Nuno Loureiro, autoTRADER.ca
For the longest time, sales leads have been the standard benchmark for measuring the effectiveness of marketing activity in the automotive industry. Leads have always been seen as the holy grail that determines whether a dealership’s marketing mix is effective ... [Read More]

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