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Sponsored Episode: Winning Trade-Ins and Trust – Navigating Today’s Affordability Challenges
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 03:15 PM
Affordability challenges are reshaping the automotive landscape—vehicle prices and payments are at all-time highs and negative equity is on the rise. In this episode, Micah Tindor offers a data-driven conversation with real-world strategies around acquisition tactics and long-term profitability to ... Listen Here
Sponsored Episode: Winning Talent Strategies for Car Dealerships – with CDK & Industry Leaders
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, 10:00 AM
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, host Bruce Johnson from CDK sits down with Tyler Jones, President of EV Auto, and Joe Brown, CMO at Frank Leta, to explore proven strategies for attracting and retaining top talent ... Listen Here
Dissecting evolving credit scores with Shams Blanc of FICO
Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, 03:34 PM
As much as auto-finance underwriting has become sophisticated, a potential starting point to determine if the applicant will be offered an installment contract is the credit score. Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, described the ... Listen Here

PODCAST: Origence president and CEO Tony Boutelle

Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, 12:11 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Credit unions collectively continue to gain market share in auto financing. How are they doing it? Origence president and CEO Tony Boutelle answered that question, sharing some other interesting data about credit unions and more during this episode of the ... [Read More]

GoFi now leverages Provenir’s data & decisioning platform

artificial intelligence
Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023, 11:46 AM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Risk decisioning software provider Provenir announced on Wednesday that automotive financing provider GoFi has selected and implemented Provenir’s data and decisioning platform to assess applicant credit risk quickly for real-time financing approvals. GoFi is an AI-centric, digital-first financing platform. Built ... [Read More]

CUNA & NAFCU to merge pending credit union voter approval

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Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023, 11:43 AM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
On Tuesday, the nation’s two leading credit union associations announced their intent to merge and form a new organization. According to a news release, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) and the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions (NAFCU) would ... [Read More]

Experian Verify now leverages consumers’ permission for income & employment verification

3 dealer groups & luxury store partner with Point Predictive
Monday, Jul. 31, 2023, 11:44 AM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
In an effort to help finance companies and other lenders verify income and employment information, Experian recently announced consumers can now choose to share information directly from their employers’ payroll service through Experian Verify when applying for credit, including auto ... [Read More]

CULA survey highlights credit unions’ concerns about terms & LTVs

Wednesday, Jul. 26, 2023, 12:10 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Stretching terms concern credit unions when building their used-vehicle portfolios, but those auto finance providers don’t appear to be eliminating that practice any time soon. Over-extension on used-vehicle installment contracts is the No. 1 concern for credit unions in the ... [Read More]

Origence & Eltropy enhance partnership to help credit unions improve originations

FlexPath DXP joins OIADA as vendor partner
Wednesday, Jul. 26, 2023, 12:08 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Origence and Eltropy said this week that they are expanding their partnership to deliver an enhanced origination experience. The technology solutions provider for credit unions and the digital communications platform for community financial institutions (CFIs) said they’re broadening their partnership ... [Read More]

iLending promotes Goraczkowski to be president

job promotion
Monday, Jul. 24, 2023, 12:58 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Last week, iLending promoted Nick Goraczkowski to be president after serving the auto refinance company as senior vice president and chief revenue officer for more than a decade. Goraczkowski takes over for Tom Holgate, who served as company president for ... [Read More]

Volvo Car Financial Services & Polestar Spaces now leverage Dealertrack

Monday, Jul. 24, 2023, 12:56 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Volvo retailers and Polestar Spaces now can take advantage of Dealertrack digital contracting across all lease and retail contracts through Volvo Car Financial Services (VCFS) and Polestar Financial Services (PFS). Dealertrack highlighted that connecting Volvo retailers and Polestar Spaces with ... [Read More]

How pandemic eroded finance company loyalty

Monday, Jul. 24, 2023, 12:55 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The pandemic apparently created another health impact; this time on auto financing. Analysis by S&P Global Mobility and TransUnion revealed loyalty to automotive finance institutions eroded significantly during the pandemic whether customers were leasing or buying vehicles. Across new-vehicle leasing ... [Read More]

Informativ partners with AutoFi to streamline credit compliance checks

compliance
Wednesday, Jul. 19, 2023, 11:14 AM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Informativ finalized a partnership with AutoFi this week with the goal being to save dealers time and potential errors. The companies are looking to accomplish this objective by pushing all the necessary information from the AutoFi credit application into the ... [Read More]
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