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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

Building on three-year partnership, Bain invests in OpenAI Deployment Company

Bain Survey: Few Companies Ready for Sustainability Rules (24%)
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Bain & Company today announced an investment in the Deployment Company, a new venture launched by OpenAI with 19 global partners. According to a news release, the OpenAI Deployment Company is built to help businesses deploy artificial intelligence across their ... [Read More]

Onbe elevates Hentschel to CEO

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Melissa Hentschel served as chief client officer of Onbe for three years. On Wednesday, Hentschel became chief executive officer, also joining the Onbe board of directors. The corporate payouts platform said Hentschel succeeds Bala Janakiraman, who is retiring after nearly ... [Read More]

4 more credit unions sign up with Auto Financial Group in Q1

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Auto Financial Group (AFG), one of the nation’s leading sources of residual based financing and vehicle remarketing for financial institutions, signed up four new credit unions to its program during the first quarter. Now using its Walk-Away Balloon Lending Program ... [Read More]

CULA footprint for vehicle leasing at credit unions grows to 35 states

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Credit Union Leasing of America (CULA) now supports vehicle leasing in 35 states through more than 40 credit union partners thanks to the newest partnership announced on Wednesday. CULA is now working with Frontier Community Credit Union, a Kansas-based credit ... [Read More]

Alfa broadens SaaS offerings to support complex commercial loan portfolios

Auto Fin Journal Staff
This week, Alfa announced the expansion of Alfa Systems, its SaaS platform for equipment and automotive finance, to support commercial loan operations. Already adopted by several commercial loan providers, the company highlighted Alfa Systems can bring together originations, servicing, payments, ... [Read More]

Launcher Solutions streamlines income and employment verification via Experian collaboration

LCT teams with AKUVO to streamline loan refunds
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Launcher Solutions announced a collaboration with Experian on Tuesday. The provider of loan origination technology for automotive and consumer lenders is integrating Experian Verify directly within the appTRAKER Loan Origination Platform, enabling real-time income and employment verification. According to a ... [Read More]

Miller is now president and COO of Nordis Technologies

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Triggered in part by five accomplishments while with the company for the past eight years, Nordis Technologies on Wednesday named chief operating officer Nicole Miller to the additional role of president. The provider of omnichannel customer communications management and payments ... [Read More]

Newest Experian tool designed to reduce risk within AI-driven commerce

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Experian found another way to connect people and technology. And the newest tool emphasizes the component of a transaction including a real person. Last week, the company launched Experian Agent Trust, a framework that designed to establish a secure, verifiable ... [Read More]

Fed’s Bowman outlines 3 steps now that Anthropic’s Mythos adds more possible AI risk to banking

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Federal Reserve vice chair Michelle Bowman acknowledged Friday that Anthropic’s Mythos — an artificial intelligence model that identifies cyber vulnerabilities — created a significant stir in banking, especially after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed chair Jerome Powell convened the ... [Read More]

PODCAST: FICO’s Shams Blanc on lenders sharpening underwriting & more

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Fresh off being in Miami as part of the Used Car Industry Summit that Cherokee Media Group hosted this spring, Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, appeared again on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Blanc discussed ... [Read More]

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