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SPONSORED EPISODE: Rethinking vehicle-protection plans for today’s wide inventory mix with GWC Warranty
Used-car inventory on dealer lots nowadays can range from older, higher-mileage vehicles to EVs, lifted trucks, and modified vehicles. The result is dealers are also having to change the vehicle-protection conversations with customers. In this special sponsored episode of the ... Listen Here
Recapping credit scores & other trends in auto finance with Shams Blanc of FICO
Shams Blanc, head of auto scores at FICO, made another appearance on the Auto Remarketing Podcast to elaborate more about the fall edition of the FICO Score Credit Insights report. Along with recapping what’s going on in auto finance, Blanc ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: Greenville Auto Auction Celebrates 16 Years—A look back and a look ahead
On this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Bill Zadeits visits with Billy Willis and Kevin Stallings of Greenville Auto Auction. The auction celebrates 16 years in early September, and the guys talk about the history of the sale, ... Listen Here

EFG Companies promotes Hartmann to COO

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Last week, EFG Companies announced that Jay Hartmann has been promoted to chief operating officer, focusing on corporate scalability and cross-functional alignment as the company positions itself for future growth. As a 21-year EFG employee, the company highlighted Hartmann has ... [Read More]

Dealertrack: 86% of auto finance contracts now eligible for digital submission

Dealertrack logo for web
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Sometimes, even some of the most sophisticated technologies in auto finance need a tuneup. That’s what Cox Automotive has done with Dealertrack with a suite of new APIs, product enhancements, and integrations designed to help maximize contracting and funding efficiency ... [Read More]

Lease End addresses ‘dark patterns’ with newest AI tool

Auto Fin Journal Staff
On the heels of reaching profitability, Lease End launched its newest tool to help consumers avoid what experts call “dark patterns.” Lease End highlighted that Payoff Intelligence is an artificial intelligence agent designed to overcome one of the most persistent ... [Read More]

COMMENTARY: Blockchain in automotive — the quiet shift from experiment to infrastructure

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Brad Smith, Block Bridge
For years, blockchain has been discussed in automotive circles as a future technology — interesting, promising, but often framed as experimental or speculative. That framing is increasingly outdated. Blockchain is already operating in the automotive industry today. Not in consumer-facing ... [Read More]

Former Market Scan chief data officer launches own VIN-level intelligence company

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Jose Galvan spent nearly 24 years at Market Scan Information Systems, including time as chief data officer for the company, which provides automotive pricing and incentive intelligence and was acquired by S&P Global Mobility nearly three years ago. This week, ... [Read More]

DriveCentric & Dealer Pay partner to enable payments within the CRM

FlexPath DXP joins OIADA as vendor partner
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Last week, DriveCentric announced an enhanced integration with National Credit Center (NCC), and Dealer Pay formed a partnership with CrossCheck. On Monday, DriveCentric and Dealer Pay finalized their own relationship, so the CRM provider has a compliant payment collection tool ... [Read More]

5 predictions in Experian’s 2026 Future of Fraud Forecast

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Experian recently released its annual Future of Fraud Forecast, identifying five fraud trends expected to impact businesses and consumers the most in 2026. Experts highlighted this year’s forecast shows fraudsters are rapidly weaponizing technologies to launch attacks that are more ... [Read More]

Lease End grows annual revenue by 60% in 2025

leasing with tablet
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Lease End, a platform designed for simplifying the vehicle lease buyout process, on Tuesday announced record-breaking results for 2025, which included revenue growing by 60% year-over-year and 1,559% since 2021. The company said it helped more than 19,000 lessees unlock ... [Read More]

Informativ names Brignola as chief financial officer

AutoCanada Announces Board Appointments
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Informativ, a provider of fraud prevention, compliance, credit, and payments technology for the automotive and consumer finance industries, on Tuesday announced that Dominic (Nick) Brignola has joined the company as chief financial officer. Most recently, Brignola was chief financial officer ... [Read More]

DriveCentric & NCC roll out enhanced integration to simplify dealership credit process

700Credit rolls out driver’s license authentication integration with iTapMenu
Auto Fin Journal Staff
DriveCentric, a CRM provider for automotive dealerships, on Tuesday announced an enhanced integration with National Credit Center (NCC), an automotive credit and compliance platform. The expanded integration embeds key capabilities from NCC’s Complete Credit platform inside DriveCentric, giving dealerships complete ... [Read More]

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