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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
Sponsored Episode: Winning Talent Strategies for Car Dealerships – with CDK & Industry Leaders
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, 10:00 AM
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, host Bruce Johnson from CDK sits down with Tyler Jones, President of EV Auto, and Joe Brown, CMO at Frank Leta, to explore proven strategies for attracting and retaining top talent ... Listen Here
Dissecting evolving credit scores with Shams Blanc of FICO
Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, 03:34 PM
As much as auto-finance underwriting has become sophisticated, a potential starting point to determine if the applicant will be offered an installment contract is the credit score. Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, described the ... Listen Here

PODCAST: Experian recaps new ways fraud is surfacing amid COVID-19

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Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2020, 04:19 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Fraud is continuing to surface in many ways, especially nowadays since so much activity is happening online because of the coronavirus pandemic. Chris Ryan, senior fraud solutions business consultant at Experian, described the most noteworthy incident he’s seen during the ... [Read More]

Study pinpoints 179% ROI in cybersecurity during COVID-19

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Monday, Jun. 22, 2020, 03:18 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
ESI ThoughtLab looked to put some tangible figures on what investing in cybersecurity can do, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. The firm recently released a comprehensive study that reveals increased investment in cybersecurity can generate a significant return on investment of ... [Read More]

Carleton celebrating 50 years of interest calculations, compliance

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Monday, Jun. 22, 2020, 03:11 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Carleton is in celebration mode. In 2020, the company is marking its golden anniversary as a provider of compliant consumer lending origination computations and complimentary document generation solutions. Throughout the last half-century, Carleton’s products have enabled finance companies and lenders ... [Read More]

The Conference Board identifies key innovation cog during COVID-19

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Tuesday, Jun. 16, 2020, 03:12 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The Conference Board — a member-driven think tank founded in 1916 — acknowledged that rapid changes in customers’ attitudes and expectations are challenging marketers like never before because of the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, it also presents major ... [Read More]

BiigVault designed to help dealerships offer contactless test drives, more

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Monday, Jun. 15, 2020, 03:29 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Oftentimes when realtors show a property, they know a combination to a lockbox that contains a key to enter the dwelling or office to show their clients the premise. Biig has developed technology for a similar scenario. But in this ... [Read More]

CDK Global pegs in-house exec to fill newly created COO post

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Monday, Jun. 15, 2020, 03:27 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
On Monday, CDK Global announced its intention to create a chief operating officer role to better align functions and improve the overall effectiveness of the company’s North American business. The company then said executive vice president and chief financial officer Joe ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Carleton on importance of offering specific vehicle price and financing details

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Wednesday, Jun. 10, 2020, 04:08 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Carleton president and chief operating officer Matt Ruszkowski still often sees it on dealership websites nowadays. The vehicle listing tells potential buyers to “call for price.” During this podcast, Ruszkowski spoke about how crucial it is for dealers to offer ... [Read More]

Powerband lands another $2.7M from D&P Holdings to rev up vehicle leasing platform

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Tuesday, Jun. 9, 2020, 02:53 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
PowerBand Solutions continued its recent stretch of development activity on Monday by announcing it’s accepting an additional $2.7 million investment from Texas-based D&P Holdings as it prepares vehicle lease originations in the United States to begin this month. PowerBand chief ... [Read More]

Digital Matrix Systems unveils services to address CARES Act relief

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Tuesday, Jun. 9, 2020, 02:51 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
On Tuesday, Digital Matrix Systems (DMS) enhanced its suite of solutions to assist finance companies to navigate through new mandates federal officials have put in place in response to COVID-19. The company announced the availability of a new subset of ... [Read More]

Volkswagen captive among first users of CDK Global’s Sign Anywhere

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Monday, Jun. 8, 2020, 03:02 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
On Monday, CDK Global announced the launch of Sign Anywhere, its new remote electronic signing solution. And Volkswagen is among the first to offer Sign Anywhere at VW dealerships through its captive — VW Credit. Through the innovative remote signing ... [Read More]
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