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Cutting keys & cutting costs during repossessions and recoveries
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:42 PM
Drawing standing-room-only attendance in the second-largest setting at Used Car Week 2025, Ryan Miller led a six-executive panel session that focused on one of the most complex challenges in all of repossessions and recoveries. Now available through this episode of ... Listen Here
Four experts on automotive & the economy
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:39 PM
Used Car Week 2025 again brought together experts who can explain which parts of the economy impact automotive most. This year’s event included views from Laura Wehunt of Black Book, Tim Gill of the American Financial Services Association, T.J. Cox ... Listen Here
Sponsored Episode: Winning Trade-Ins and Trust – Navigating Today’s Affordability Challenges
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 03:15 PM
Affordability challenges are reshaping the automotive landscape—vehicle prices and payments are at all-time highs and negative equity is on the rise. In this episode, Micah Tindor offers a data-driven conversation with real-world strategies around acquisition tactics and long-term profitability to ... Listen Here

Market Scan welcomes Reid as vice president of strategic partnerships

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Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, 03:39 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
One of Cherokee Media Group’s first Women in Auto Finance honorees is taking on a new professional challenge. Market Scan Information Systems announced on Monday that its new vice president of strategic partnerships is Jennifer Reid, whose resume includes time with ... [Read More]

ANALYSIS: Is coronavirus a crisis for asset-finance operations or a catalyst for technological change?

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Tuesday, Jul. 28, 2020, 09:25 PM
Brendan Gleeson, White Clarke Group
Business leaders have largely embraced the rapid introduction of home working and digital processes as an inevitable necessity. Though the global lockdown has rapidly accelerated trends in digitalization, seeing many asset finance businesses moving their operations entirely online in a ... [Read More]

COMMENTARY: Auto-loan fraud is pervasive yet preventable

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Sunday, Jul. 26, 2020, 07:24 PM
Gilad Komorov, Lightico
Auto-loan fraud is a significant challenge to the auto-finance industry — one that actually grew during the pandemic. Auto-finance fraud reportedly cost the industry $7 billion in 2018 alone and resulted in damage to business reputation and compliance issues. Better ... [Read More]

FunnelAI hires former Gulf States Toyota VP as COO

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Wednesday, Jul. 22, 2020, 02:00 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
An executive who spent nearly two decades with Gulf States Toyota now is the chief operating officer FunnelAI, a real-time B2B artificial intelligence-based semantic search platform. Taking on this role for FunnelAI is Laura Ryan, who will be responsible for ... [Read More]

Pandemic pushes ACH activity 7.9% higher in Q2

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Monday, Jul. 20, 2020, 03:04 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Last week, Nacha highlighted how much electronic financial transactions jumped year-over-year during the second quarter, triggered in part by the coronavirus pandemic. The steward of the ACH Network, a payment system that universally connects all U.S. bank accounts and facilitates ... [Read More]

CarLabs.ai names Ruble as VP of business development

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Monday, Jul. 20, 2020, 03:00 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
An executive who began his professional career in the trenches at a dealership now is the vice president of business development of CarLabs.ai, an artificial intelligence-powered, conversational engagement platform designed to successfully implement and personalize sales and customer service via ... [Read More]

6 potential benefits of CU Direct integration with VinSolutions

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Monday, Jul. 20, 2020, 02:57 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
This past week, CU Direct announced a new integration with VinSolutions automotive CRM, creating what the tech firms believe are six benefits for dealership F&I offices. As a result of the collaboration, CU Direct has expanded its CUDL auto financing ... [Read More]

PODCAST: DRN discusses location-data trends since pandemic arrived

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Monday, Jul. 20, 2020, 02:44 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
In a preview of what he will discuss in more detail during the all-digital Automotive Intelligence Summit, DRN executive vice president and general manager of fintech Jeremiah Wheeler offered some insight into the company’s location data gathered since the coronavirus ... [Read More]

Shop.com partners with CarSaver to bring consumers digital shopping and delivery

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Wednesday, Jul. 15, 2020, 03:19 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The online marketplace for consumers to find and finance their next vehicle digitally gained another participant this week, highlighting access to an inventory of more than 100,000 used vehicles for sale nationwide. Shop.com, Market America's primary global e-commerce website, introduced ... [Read More]

4 potential benefits of enhanced Equifax reports with industry-specific FICO scores

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Monday, Jul. 13, 2020, 03:07 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Mark Luber is hitting the ground running as the chief product officer for Equifax United States Information Solutions (USIS). Just a few days after announcing he joined the company from Cox Automotive, Luber highlighted the newest tool from Equifax; the ... [Read More]
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