Business Intelligence for Automotive and Auto FinTech Executives

Auto Remarketing AR Canada Subprime News BHPH Report Auto Fin Journal
EMAIL SIGNUP CMG PREMIUM LOGIN
X
Next Ron Smith Lifetime Achievement Award recipient: Kyle Birch of GM Financial
For the first time since 2022, Auto Remarketing and Cherokee Media Group are giving their Ron Smith Lifetime Achievement Award; an honor reserved especially for executives who have made one of the most significant impacts on the used-car industry. During ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Fame honoree Jared Kalfus of Black Book
We finish our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees with a conversation featuring Black Book president Jared Kalfus. Kalfus describes what it takes to be successful in sales and why face-to-face conversations are still vitally ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: Prospects for more auto refinancing with Gravity Lending
In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast brought to you by Allied Solutions, we turn our attention to auto refinancing. Brad Paxman oversees 90 lender relationships for Gravity Lending, which is an auto refinance and fintech company ... Listen Here

MSUFCU partners with Origence as part of ‘expansion phase’

partnership gears
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Michigan State University Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU) is continuing in its “expansion phase” by partnering with Origence in a strategic collaboration to leverage Origence’s arc OS and arc DX platforms for both loans and account opening. Origence said the platform ... [Read More]

NCA & CISA begin 21st annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Auto Fin Journal Staff
On Tuesday, the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) launched the 21st annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Organizers said this year’s theme, “Secure Our World,” builds on the momentum from last year’s theme, highlighting basic ... [Read More]

Treasury & IRS give more than $2B toward 300K ‘clean’ vehicles so far in 2024

Tenet partners with Point Predictive to weed fraud out of EV financing
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Officials from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS on Tuesday highlighted they have given more than $2 billion in incentives toward the delivery of more than 300,000 “clean” vehicles so far this year. The agencies said they gave ... [Read More]

BNY survey highlights community banks & digital transformations

Auto Fin Journal Staff
This week, the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BNY) released results of a survey of community banks that it conducted with the Harris Poll, a global market research firm. The global financial services company found that more than 90% ... [Read More]

50 questions about privacy & AI from FTC’s Bedoya

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Alvaro Bedoya of the Federal Trade Commission played his own version of 20 questions last week. Bedoya actually posed 50 questions during a speech at ForumGlobal’s sixth annual Data Privacy Conference USA in Washington, D.C., pondering queries connected with privacy, ... [Read More]

Point Predictive & Sync1 Systems partner to bring more fraud-fighting tools to credit unions

fraud magnifying glass
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Point Predictive landed relationships with individual credit unions recently with Affinity Federal Credit Union and Valley Strong Credit Union each tapping the service provider that leverages artificial intelligence to fight against fraud. Last week, Point Predictive waded deeper into the ... [Read More]

JM&A Group promotes Hull to be NTP president

Auto Fin Journal Staff
On Tuesday, JM&A Group announced the promotion of Kevin Hull to president of National Truck Protection Co. (NTP). Wade Bontrager, whose career spans nearly 30 years in the insurance industry, will continue to support NTP as a key advisor while ... [Read More]

Alfa deploys final pillar of Alfa Systems 6

Auto Fin Journal Staff
The sixth of six pillars in Alfa Systems 6 is now available for Alfa’s auto-finance clients. The newest piece —  Collaborative Ecosystem — can allow customers to tap into Alfa’s expertise and best practices to source and integrate with new ... [Read More]

Wells Fargo to become preferred purchase financing provider for VW, Audi, Ducati dealers in US

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Volkswagen Financial Services, the captive finance arm of VW Group of America, has reached a multi-year co-branded agreement with Wells Fargo for the latter to be the preferred purchase financing provider for VW, Audi and Ducati brands in the U.S. ... [Read More]

PODCAST: New resource to improve income verification

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Perhaps it’s the most crucial part of the entire underwriting process: Does the applicant for auto financing have the reliable income to maintain monthly payments? With the prevalence of fraud happening now, income verification is an ongoing challenge for finance ... [Read More]

Med Rec 1

MedRec 2

MedRec 3

Filmstrip

Digital Edition Ad

Offerings

X