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What might be next for Amazon Autos
Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, 03:52 PM
Cherokee Media Group’s Bill Zadeits hosted a fireside chat with Fan Jin, global leader of Amazon Autos, during Used Car Week 2025. Their wide-ranging conversation about the past, present and future of the online platform and its involvement with automakers ... Listen Here
Auto-finance leaders on growth, risk & recovery
Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, 03:07 PM
It’s a question any business must answer, but it’s especially important in auto finance. How do you balance growth and risk? A trio of industry executives — Mike Goins of TD Bank, Jeff Marsh of Millennium Capital and Recovery and ... Listen Here
Expectations for repossessions in the US & Canada with Purr’s Chris Schellenberger
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, 07:48 PM
Purr founder and CEO Chris Schellenberger opened Used Car Week 2025 on the Live Stage presented by SYCN Auto Logistics. Schellenberger, whose unique business model offers a retail consignment platform for repossessed vehicles, discussed what the repo industry could be ... Listen Here

Honcker rebrands as Rodo with eyes on more leasing growth

news update
Monday, Sep. 16, 2019, 03:10 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
One of the honorees among this year’s Emerging 8 appearing at this summer's Automotive Intelligence Summit now is operating under a new brand name. On-demand auto leasing startup Rodo, previously known as Honcker, recently exited beta with a major update ... [Read More]

3 investors push $19M into data science platform aimed at functioning like search engines

fintech investment
Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2019, 03:42 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Explorium is taking advantage of the investment community seeing “data as the new oil” in an effort to sharpen a tool that can scan data sets and function like a web search engine. On Wednesday, the data science platform fueled ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Examining developing players and bright future of auto fintech

Marguerite Watanabe at AIS
Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2019, 03:41 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
In a few special editions of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, we’re sharing some of the panel discussions and keynote presentations from the recent Automotive Intelligence Summit in Raleigh, N.C. Next up is a pair of presentations from Marguerite Watanabe, president ... [Read More]

Mezu appoints Trujillo as chief compliance and risk officer

job promotion
Monday, Sep. 9, 2019, 03:17 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Mezu, a mobile payments app that can enable users to pay and get paid by anyone anywhere for anything without sharing any personal information, recently announced that it has promoted Luis Trujillo to the role of chief compliance and risk ... [Read More]

FICO sharpens vehicle-monitoring technology to predict future collisions

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Monday, Sep. 9, 2019, 03:15 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
FICO is showing that its technology and analytics repertoire includes more than just the score that’s often so valuable in auto-finance underwriting. FICO, in partnership with risk management firm eDriving, recently launched the latest version of the FICO Safe Driving ... [Read More]

How blockchain is computing residual values in China

blockchain
Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2019, 03:54 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Using blockchain to compute residual values appears to be unfolding in China with a high-line brand that often heavily depends on the metric. According to a recent news release, PlatON has developed a bespoke blockchain-based vehicle residual value management platform for the ... [Read More]

3 findings from Synopsys and Ponemon study on security practices and challenges

fraud prevention
Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2019, 03:52 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
A recent survey by Synopsys further reinforced the challenge the financial services industry is having with maintaining its cybersecurity and other matters related to fraud and the compromising on consumer data. Based on a survey of global financial services organizations ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Smart Strategies for Auto Fintech Success

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Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, 07:05 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
In a few special editions of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, we’re sharing some of the panel discussions and keynote presentations from the recent Automotive Intelligence Summit in Raleigh, N.C. Next up is panel discussion on "Necessity is the Mother of ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Examining ‘credit first versus credit last’

Tarry Shebesta at AIS
Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019, 05:41 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Following his workshops during the Automotive Intelligence Summit this summer in Raleigh, N.C., truPayments chief executive officer Tarry Shebesta joined Nick for this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Shebesta revisited his presentation and elaborated about the concept of “credit ... [Read More]

Fair, Ally expand partnership with $100M debt facility & equity investment

George Bauer
Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, 08:43 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Fair has landed a $100 million debt facility and an equity investment from Ally Financial as part of an expansion to a partnership that began last year. Ally Bank is providing the debt facility to a subsidiary of Fair. That ... [Read More]
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