With Presidio Group as exclusive financial advisor, Carputty closes Series B financing to push total capital raise past $40M
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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
700Credit finds significant fraud risk in RV space, as well
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Previously, 700Credit examined how much fraud might be happening at motorcycle dealerships, so the provider of credit reports, compliance solutions, soft pull and identity verification products decided to examine what’s going on with RV retailers. And, unfortunately, 700Credit found similar ... [Read More]
OTTOMOTO lands third partnership so far this fall with Conecta Marketing Group
Auto Fin Journal Staff
It’s been a busy fall on the partnership front for OTTOMOTO, a technology provider for dealerships and finance companies to facilitate financing in the auto, RV, powersports, marine, and aircraft markets. The newest partnership for OTTOMOTO is with Conecta Marketing ... [Read More]
Auto finance startup taps former ACV exec to be CTO
Auto Fin Journal Staff
SelectFI turned to the former vice president of engineering at ACV to be its chief technology officer. On Friday, the startup that offers artificial intelligence-driven customer financing solutions for automotive dealerships appointed Joe Peacock as CTO. Founded in 2023, SelectFI ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Wolters Kluwer Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index reflects sluggish sales in Q3
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Adoption of digitized contracting and documentation workflows by auto retailers and their financing partners that foster back-office efficiencies continued on an upward trend, according to analysis by Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions from its Q3 Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index. While ... [Read More]
Credit Sesame rolls out AI platform to boost credit management
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Credit Sesame last week launched an improved version of its credit intelligence platform fueled by a decade of serving 18 million consumers and AI models trained with more than 7 trillion data points. Credit Sesame highlighted its platform can provide ... [Read More]
Timmerman’s distinguished career at Ally now includes Auto Finance Executive of the Year Award
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Doug Timmerman has always been good with numbers. It’s part of the reason why Timmerman graduated with his undergraduate and master’s degrees in business administration from the University of Nebraska. When it came time to depart from the land of ... [Read More]
Truist unveils ramped up tool for digital billing & payments
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Truist Financial Corp. rolled out a new solution last week designed to empower its wholesale payments clients with greater control and efficiency over their billing and payment operations. The bank said its electronic bill presentment and payment platform will provide ... [Read More]
TrustCloud unveils Quantum Vault in DocuSign’s App Center
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Here’s another way you can keep your client and customer information secure. TrustCloud has launched the TrustCloud Quantum Vault, a state-of-the-art custody solution incorporating post-quantum encryption technology. Now available in the DocuSign App Center, TrustCloud highlighted this innovative offering “sets ... [Read More]
Nordis Technologies names vice president of product
Auto Fin Journal Staff
On Tuesday, Nordis Technologies appointed Jennifer Friday as vice president of product. In this role, Friday will manage Nordis’ product development roadmap and expanding suite of innovative solutions that increase clients’ revenues and market competitiveness by improving customer experience, repeat ... [Read More]
Bain expands partnership with OpenAI to accelerate delivery of AI solutions
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Bain & Co. is reinforcing its commitment to artificial intelligence. The global consultancy recently announced an expanded partnership with OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT and frontier AI models such as GPT 4o and the new OpenAI o1 — to ... [Read More]
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