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Used Car Week Hall of Famer Kathy Ruble of Ally
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, 07:52 PM
Next up on our podcast series with 2025 Used Car Week Hall of Fame inductees, we catch up with Kathy Ruble, who is executive director of marketing, dealer financial services and communications at Ally. Ruble has been the longtime moderator ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: From Acquisition to Sale — Winning Used Car Tactics from Autotrader and vAuto experts
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, 05:28 PM
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, host Bill Zadeits joins with Elizabeth Stegall of Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book and ICO, and Bethany Johnson from vAuto to preview their Used Car Week workshop. Listen now and you’ll get ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Famer Becky Igo of Allied Solutions
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, 03:28 PM
Becky Igo remembers the first few business trips she made going to industry conferences at a time when things like pay phones and fax machines were critical business-development tools. Now more than four decades later, the regional vice president for ... Listen Here

Auto refinance startup raises $4.7M in seed funding

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Friday, Mar. 29, 2019, 03:16 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Auto refinance startup MotoRefi announced $4.7 million in seed funding on Tuesday, with funding led by seed-led venture capital firm Accomplice. QED Investors and Motley Fool Ventures also participated in the funding. MotoRefi is a digital platform designed to connect ... [Read More]

Data Decisions Cloud emerges from Equifax and FICO strategic partnership

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Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019, 02:01 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
To increase velocity for deploying predictive models, FICO and Equifax are introducing the Data Decisions Cloud. And a trio of other related solutions from the companies’ collaborative efforts is on track to be released later this year. According to a ... [Read More]

Carvana enters securitization market with $350M offering

auto financing
Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2019, 05:10 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Along with expanding its reconditioning capabilities, Carvana is also delving deeper within the financing side of its business as an online used-vehicle retailer. On Tuesday, Carvana announced that it priced its first auto loan securitization, successfully adding a new, large ... [Read More]

FIS and Worldpay to merge, creating $12B fintech firm

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Monday, Mar. 25, 2019, 02:32 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
For the second time this quarter, two major participants in the financial services and payments spaces made moves to merge. In January, Fiserv and First Data Corp., announced that their boards of directors unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement. Then ... [Read More]

Market Scan sees 2 financing trends emerge from NADA interactions

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Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2019, 02:48 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Market Scan co-founder and president Rusty West took some time to process the intense activity surrounding NADA Show 2019 this past January in San Francisco. Surrounding the annual event, the automotive financing and leasing software and data provider finalized a ... [Read More]

FICO auto-finance survey reinforces consumer demand for convenience

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Monday, Mar. 18, 2019, 03:25 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Ken Kertz summed up FICO’s 2019 U.S. Consumer Survey of Vehicle Finance Perceptions with a point relevant whether a finance company only has a footprint in a couple of states or builds its portfolio from originations nationwide. “The takeaway for ... [Read More]

4 reasons for Moody’s bearish global auto outlook

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Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2019, 01:47 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Looking at the automotive industry from a global perspective, Moody’s Investors Service didn’t paint the most upbeat scene this week, especially for the U.S. market and vehicle financing. Analysts said in a new report released this week that the outlook ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Alex Maritczak of Ernst & Young

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Monday, Mar. 11, 2019, 01:22 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Alex Maritczak recently returned to North Carolina and joined Nick for a conversation about how auto finance companies and technology developers are collaborating on new solutions. The global auto finance leader at Ernst & Young who also led panel discussions ... [Read More]

Weighing benefits versus risks of blockchain within ABS market

auto financing
Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2019, 04:54 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
S&P Global Ratings has questions you might have, too. What is blockchain? And why does it elicit feelings of excitement and confusion simultaneously within the structured finance market? Analysts looked to answers those questions and more and arrived at more ... [Read More]

truPayments becomes part of CDK Global Partner Program

online auto financing
Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2019, 03:22 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
In an effort to bring together vehicle shoppers, dealerships and finance companies, truPayments announced that it has become a participant in the CDK Global Partner Program. As a member of one of the largest third-party partner programs in the industry, ... [Read More]
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