COMMENTARY: The LLM compliance paradox & separating conversational AI from quantitative underwriting
Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, 03:20 PM
Latest two moves by US Bank have dealers & OEMs in mind
Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, 10:51 AM
COMMENTARY: Calibrating AI risk models for shifting macroeconomic cycles
Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, 03:11 PM
This Month's Focus
Turbocharged Finance
Arvest Bank sees early successes with FICO Auto Score 10
COMMENTARY: The secret to accelerating funding in indirect auto lending
Mercedes-Benz USA approves NETSOL as a digital retail provider for its dealerships
SPONSORED EPISODE: Prospects for more auto refinancing with Gravity Lending
In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast brought to you by Allied Solutions, we turn our attention to auto refinancing. Brad Paxman oversees 90 lender relationships for Gravity Lending, which is an auto refinance and fintech company ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Fame: Bob McConkey of McConkey Auction Group
Next up on our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees is a conversation with Bob McConkey, president and CEO of the McConkey Auction Group. McConkey, along with MAG chief operating officer David Pendergraft and DAA ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: What independent dealers need to be successful with Chris Vangellow of Frazer
In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Chris Vangellow, who is the Director of Product Management at Frazer, described what’s changed most about running an independent dealership over the past few years, especially from a technology perspective. ... Listen Here
COMMENTARY: Auto-loan fraud is pervasive yet preventable
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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]
Perry now president & CEO of Denver-based software and dealer-services company
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The next chapter in Chip Perry’s professional career officially began last Friday; this time with another start-up. The executive who previously has served as a leader with The Los Angeles Times, Autotrader and TrueCar became president and chief executive officer ... [Read More]
Van Horn Automotive Group taps Inovatec to underpin finance company
Auto Fin Journal Staff
A Midwest franchised dealer group with its own finance company finalized a partnership with Inovatec Systems Corp. on Wednesday. The provider of cloud-based software solutions for all financial institutions now has a relationship with Wisconsin Consumer Credit, the financial arm ... [Read More]
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