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A Look Back at Last Two Decades of the Used-Car Industry in Canada
Thursday, Sep. 18, 2025, 02:32 PM
In the grand finale of our podcast episodes from Canada’s Used Car Week in June, conference chair and Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits is joined by Brad Hart and Peter Snoyer on a panel celebrating 20th anniversary of the ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: AI & Big Data Deliver Significant Improvements to Inventory Management
Thursday, Sep. 11, 2025, 04:33 PM
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Merritt Critcher, Director of Product Management with CDK speaks with Bill Zadeits about the newest trends and potential for AI and big data to meet and exceed the inventory management needs ... Listen Here
Experian on how much auto refinancing is gaining traction
Thursday, Sep. 11, 2025, 01:53 PM
Melinda Zabritski, Experian’s head of automotive financial insights, said consumers are looking for ways to secure more favorable vehicle financing terms, especially with interest rates leveling out and perhaps a cut coming next week from the Federal Reserve. The base ... Listen Here

Credit unions originate record $62.1B in Q3 via Origence

Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, 02:55 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Origence and credit unions are on quite a roll with auto financing. For the third consecutive quarter in 2022 and for the fourth straight quarter overall, Origence said it has delivered a record amount in credit union auto finance contracts ... [Read More]

AFG integrates with MeridianLink to streamline Balloon Lending Program

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Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, 02:53 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Auto Financial Group (AFG), announced on Tuesday that it has signed an integration agreement with MeridianLink, which provides software platforms for financial institutions and consumer reporting agencies. AFG said this partnership further reinforces its mission to pursue innovative solutions that ... [Read More]

Lendbuzz fueled by another credit facility from J.P. Morgan

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Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, 02:31 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Lendbuzz began November by announcing that it closed a $150 million credit facility with J.P. Morgan. The growing fintech company making headway in the auto financing market using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms said this is the second credit ... [Read More]

New Point Predictive solution to help finance companies vet dealers to curb fraud

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Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, 03:50 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
A recent dealer survey by eLEND Solutions showed how much stores feel exposed to fraud. Last week, Point Predictive launched a solution to address that specific challenge and more with a tool to help finance companies vet dealerships based on ... [Read More]

Wolters Kluwer: Digital transformation continues even as retail sales slow

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Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, 03:48 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Wolters Kluwer recently announced third quarter results and analysis from its Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index, a key resource that tracks the rate at which auto dealers, service providers and finance companies are seeing growth in the evolution from paper-based ... [Read More]

Tenet closes $20M warehouse facility from Silicon Valley Bank

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Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, 03:46 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Last week, Tenet announced that the company has secured what it believes is the first-ever electric vehicle (EV) only warehouse facility to make EVs more affordable. According to a news release, Tenet has entered into a warehouse financing agreement of ... [Read More]

eLEND Solutions survey finds most dealers lack effective fraud protection

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Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, 03:26 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Most dealers who participated in a new survey from eLEND Solutions acknowledged they have a serious problem in connection with digital retailing and many do not have a proven strategy to solve it. According to the fintech company’s new report ... [Read More]

Womack shows passion to help others in route to being Auto Finance Executive of the Year

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Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, 04:14 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
In October 2021, Santander Consumer USA named Marc Womack as head of operations. A year later, Womack has been named as the Auto Finance Executive of the Year, an honor presented by Black Book. Womack will officially be given the ... [Read More]

Capstreet-backed CBC acquires CreditDriver Solutions

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Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, 03:03 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
And the M&A parade in automotive continues. This week, Credit Bureau Connection, a provider of credit report and compliance solutions to automotive dealers, finance companies, and other end markets, announced the acquisition of CreditDriver Solutions, a soft credit technology provider ... [Read More]

Nacha spots wide use of younger consumers utilizing direct deposits & payments

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Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, 02:51 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Nacha commissioned a study earlier this year to determine how younger consumers are securing their income that’s key to lining up auto financing and maintaining monthly payments. The organization that governs the ACH Network learned that the sizable majority of the ... [Read More]
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