With Presidio Group as exclusive financial advisor, Carputty closes Series B financing to push total capital raise past $40M
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FlexPath DXP hires Neilson as director of dealer and channel development
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Jericho Information Technology & Fuse share initial goals for partnership
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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
DealerSocket CRM now integrated with captives for Audi & VW
Auto Fin Journal Staff
DealerSocket, Audi and Volkswagen are collaborating to make deliveries more efficient for their chain of franchised dealerships. On Monday, DealerSocket announced that VW Credit selected its customer relationship management (CRM) suite to help drive connections between vehicle buyers and its ... [Read More]
Applications being taken for 2020 FIS Fintech Accelerator
Auto Fin Journal Staff
About a month still remains for startups to submit their applications to be a part of the 2020 FIS Fintech Accelerator, which is conducted in collaboration with the state of Arkansas and Little Rock-based The Venture Center. Now in its ... [Read More]
FICO preps for summertime release of revamped score suite
Auto Fin Journal Staff
FICO will be trying to heat up your underwriting capabilities and portfolio performance in the coming months. This summer, finance companies can take advantage of the new capabilities offered by FICO that will come through its flagship FICO Score and ... [Read More]
Consumers, dealers and OEMs seek clarity on protection, access to driver data
Jack Ferry, Correspondent
Today’s connected vehicles are generating infinitely more real-time data than drivers, manufacturers or dealers could have imagined five to 10 years ago. This information monitors the performance of the vehicle for maintenance, dependability and research purposes, as well as providing ... [Read More]
LexisNexis Risk Solutions closes acquisition of ID Analytics
Auto Fin Journal Staff
LexisNexis Risk Solutions closed January by announcing it finalized the acquisition of ID Analytics, the San Diego-based provider of fraud and credit risk solutions. Previously, ID Analytics was a NortonLifeLock company. LexisNexis Risk Solutions said the strategic acquisition of data ... [Read More]
PointPredictive adds PenFed to client list using fraud solution suite
Auto Fin Journal Staff
PointPredictive landed another high-profile client this week; this time an institution that’s considered to be the nation’s second-largest federal credit union. The San Diego-based company and Emerging 8 honoree that builds artificial and natural intelligence (Ai+Ni) models using machine learning ... [Read More]
Hudson Cook partner included in Chambers’ 2020 fintech guide
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Hudson Cook recently announced that partner Catherine Brennan has been recognized with a national ranking in the Chambers FinTech 2020 USA Guide for Corporate, Securities & Financing. Chambers fintech is a comprehensive guide to leading fintech professionals across the world. ... [Read More]
Lightico boosts advisory board with former defiSOLUTIONS exec
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Lightico wants to remain on an upward trajectory following significant growth during 2019, including signing multiple prime and subprime auto finance companies to use its digital customer interaction solution. The company recently welcomed Glenn Munro to its advisory board as ... [Read More]
Survey: Banks embrace AI but struggle to find competitive impact
Auto Fin Journal Staff
New research from Genpact showed there’s no doubt commercial banks are using artificial intelligence (AI). In fact, the global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation reported 97% of commercial banks leverage AI. However, Genpact also discovered most financial ... [Read More]
700Credit enhances dealer mobile app with prequalification capability
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Officials from 700 Credit, the provider of credit reports, compliance solutions and consumer pre-qualification products, announced last week the release of a Mobile Dealer Application for their QuickQualify platform. The company reiterated that its QuickQualify is a pre-qualification platform that ... [Read More]
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