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This Month's Focus
Turbocharged Finance
Mercedes-Benz USA approves NETSOL as a digital retail provider for its dealerships
Point Predictive deploys Predictor Agents using data from more than 650 lenders
Intellicheck & Agility Credit partner for multi-layered fraud prevention at dealerships
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
Used Car Week Hall of Fame: Grace Huang of Cox Automotive
We begin our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees with Grace Huang, president of Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions, who joins Cherokee Media Group’s Joe Overby for a conversation about her career journey, the value of ... Listen Here
Ben Sporn of VIP Automotive Group Takes DIY Approach to AI
Ben Sporn is the chief marketing officer of VIP Automotive Group on Long Island, N.Y. , where he runs operations and artificial intelligence projects at his family’s 10-store dealer group. He also has a tech background, having worked for Google ... Listen Here
Former COO becomes Odessa’s next CEO
Auto Fin Journal Staff
You can go home again, at least at Odessa when it means becoming the company leader. The asset and auto finance software company on Monday announced the appointment of Mathew Abraham as chief executive officer to succeed Joe Juliano in ... [Read More]
Southeast Toyota Finance sees immediate benefits of Alfa’s rebooted AI assistant
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Southeast Toyota Finance is among the clients already seeing measurable benefits from the relaunch of Alfa’s artificial intelligence assistant. The platform provider for asset finance redeployed AskThea as Thea Chat, which is designed to put Alfa Systems’ expertise directly in ... [Read More]
S&P Global to acquire OpenZeppelin, reinforcing security in onchain finance
Auto Fin Journal Staff
As automotive gradually enters the space, S&P Global announced last week that it has entered into an agreement to acquire OpenZeppelin, which provides security for onchain finance. Executives highlighted the transaction complements S&P Global’s risk assessment and ecosystem development capabilities ... [Read More]
Edwards Federal Credit Union becomes sixth institution to partner with CULA so far this year
Auto Fin Journal Staff
On Tuesday, Edwards Federal Credit Union became the sixth institution to partner with Credit Union Leasing of America (CULA) for its indirect vehicle leasing solutions. The Antelope Valley, Calif.-based institution, which has more than 16,000 members and manages more than ... [Read More]
15 executives among 2026 Women in Auto Finance honorees
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Another 15 exceptional executives have been honored among the 2026 Women in Auto Finance, an award program presented by Primeritus Financial Services. From dealerships to finance companies to service providers, this year’s group again represents a wide spectrum related to ... [Read More]
SBS reinforces US executive team to gain more floor plan business
Auto Fin Journal Staff
SBS, the global financial technology company whose wholesale finance platform powers operations for OEM captives including Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Toyota and Volvo, has appointed a U.S. leadership team as floor plan lenders search for a more efficient way to run their ... [Read More]
Parafin & Tekion launch buy now, pay later tools for dealers
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Dealers now can use buy now, pay later paths like their consumer customers. Last week, Parafin, an embedded finance company for platforms, announced a partnership with Tekion, an artificial intelligence-native platform serving the entire automotive retail ecosystem. Together, they launched ... [Read More]
FlexPath DXP hires Neilson as director of dealer and channel development
Auto Fin Journal Staff
FlexPath DXP on Wednesday named Shannon Neilson as director of dealer and channel development. Neilson is being tasked with working directly with dealers, agencies, and channel partners to help them better understand how consumers are engaging with their marketing and ... [Read More]
With Presidio Group as exclusive financial advisor, Carputty closes Series B financing to push total capital raise past $40M
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The Presidio Group served as exclusive financial advisor on the Series B financing of Carputty to accelerate expansion of its embedded finance platform across the automotive industry. This latest round of financing brings the total capital invested in Carputty — ... [Read More]
Jericho Information Technology & Fuse share initial goals for partnership
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Jericho Information Technology and Fuse recently formed a new partnership with the goal of rolling out joint initiatives in the coming months. Jericho operates in the indirect auto lending business, importing data from many legacy systems into a single platform ... [Read More]
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