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Deeper dive into rising LTVs with TransUnion’s Satyan Merchant
One of the notable findings from TransUnion’s Q2 2026 Credit Industry Insights Report (CIIR) was how much loan-to-value ratios have changed in the past five years. Satyan Merchant, one of this year’s Automotive Intelligence Award recipients and senior vice president ... Listen Here
PayNearMe chief product officer John Minor on intersection of payments & technology
PayNearMe recently shared new search, explaining that hidden costs sustained by auto lenders can show up as failed payments, borrower support calls, late payments, collections follow-up, reconciliation work and manual recovery effort. PayNearMe chief product officer John Minor elaborated about ... Listen Here
Matt Babcock of Wolters Kluwer on how digital transformation continues to gain steam in auto financing
Matt Babcock, who heads up digital lending product strategy for Wolters Kluwer, returned for another visit on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Wolter Kluwer recently released its latest quarterly Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index. Babcock recapped the sustained upward trajectory the ... Listen Here

Lendbuzz completes second securitization of the year topping $260M

Kinetic Advantage finalizes first securitization
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Just before Fourth of July, Lendbuzz announced that it has closed a $266 million securitization collateralized by a pool of auto loans made to obligors and secured by new and used automobiles, light duty trucks, and vans. In January, Lendbuzz ... [Read More]

Algebrik AI finalizes two more partnerships to enhance cloud-native, AI-powered LOS

Auto Fin Journal Staff
On both sides of Fourth of July, Algebrik AI announced partnerships aimed at boosting digital advancements of auto financing. After the holiday weekend, the provider of a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered, digital-era loan origination suite finalized a strategic partnership with Kinective, ... [Read More]

COMMENTARY: Automakers need new strategies to counter the impact of evolving regulations

Details of upcoming repossession webinars from ARA & Weltman
Dennis Ephlin, Capgemini Invent North America
New tariffs plus a longstanding trend of unsustainable price increases are combining to pose fresh challenges for automakers, suppliers, and retailers. In particular, how can the auto industry better control costs quickly to make their products more affordable for consumers? ... [Read More]

Morgan Auto Group looks to reduce fraud-triggered buybacks using Point Predictive tools

Auto Fin Journal Staff
With its fraud-fighting consortium already containing more than 650 members, Point Predictive is making inroads into the dealership space, too. On Tuesday, the provider of artificial intelligence solutions for consumer lending announced a strategic partnership with Morgan Auto Group, one ... [Read More]

SBS and AiM partner to offer digital & physical auditing for wholesale financing

Auto Fin Journal Staff
SBS announced a new partnership with Alliance Inspection Management (AiM) on Wednesday designed to streamline a sometimes cumbersome part of wholesale financing. SBS and AiM now can offer wholesale finance lenders a comprehensive audit solution that can combine digital and ... [Read More]

Bain: Private equity upturn hit by tariff turmoil, but winning firms will lean into turbulence

Bain sees private equity activity germinating again
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The global private equity upturn — which was taking shape last year and extended into a relatively upbeat first quarter of 2025 — is weakening as dealmaking and exits are hit by market and economic headwinds triggered by recent turmoil ... [Read More]

COMMENTARY: AI is coming to F&I, and here’s how dealers can win

Todd Smith, QoreAI
For most dealerships, the F&I office is still the most profitable square footage in the building. But while sales departments are testing artificial intelligence tools, the box hasn’t changed much in 20 years. That’s about to change. Fast. Dealers are ... [Read More]

OttoMoto partners with Algebrik AI to provide dealers & lenders with beneficial insights

Auto Fin Journal Staff
OttoMoto and Algebrik recently announced partnership to leverage the collective capabilities of their platforms fueled by artificial intelligence and other technologies and designed to help finance companies and dealerships. The partnership is geared so dealers and lenders can leverage real-time ... [Read More]

3 federal agencies seek public input to reduce check fraud

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Auto finance has become more digitized in recent years. It’s something Wolters Kluwer tracks quarterly. But there is still plenty of paper making the rounds, including checks. It’s part of the reason why three federal bank regulatory agencies this week ... [Read More]

Tropic survey shows 2026 as inflection point for AI investment

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Tropic published findings from a recent survey last week, showing that finance and procurement teams are preparing for a massive shift toward artificial intelligence adoption, with 86% planning to implement or scale AI initiatives by 2026. With 50% reporting they’re ... [Read More]

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