PODCAST: Talking titles with Dave Spencer of Vitu
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, 11:38 AM
Informed.IQ secures $63M in funding from Invictus Growth Partners with eyes on expansion in auto & other markets
Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, 12:21 PM
CHAMP Titles lands $55M in largest funding round to date
Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, 12:22 PM
What might be next for Amazon Autos
Cherokee Media Group’s Bill Zadeits hosted a fireside chat with Fan Jin, global leader of Amazon Autos, during Used Car Week 2025. Their wide-ranging conversation about the past, present and future of the online platform and its involvement with automakers ... Listen Here
Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, 03:52 PM
Auto-finance leaders on growth, risk & recovery
It’s a question any business must answer, but it’s especially important in auto finance. How do you balance growth and risk? A trio of industry executives — Mike Goins of TD Bank, Jeff Marsh of Millennium Capital and Recovery and ... Listen Here
Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, 03:07 PM
Expectations for repossessions in the US & Canada with Purr’s Chris Schellenberger
Purr founder and CEO Chris Schellenberger opened Used Car Week 2025 on the Live Stage presented by SYCN Auto Logistics. Schellenberger, whose unique business model offers a retail consignment platform for repossessed vehicles, discussed what the repo industry could be ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, 07:48 PM
CULA breaks annual origination record, generating $2.7B in vehicle leases
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, 04:49 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Credit Union Leasing of America (CULA) set a new record in 2022 for originations with $2.7 billion in leases, surpassing its single year record of $2 billion set just a year earlier. According to a news release, the company originated ... [Read More]
2 new digital financing & fraud prevention tools from eLEND Solutions
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, 04:47 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Pete MacInnis, founder and CEO of eLEND Solutions, and his team rolled out a pair of new tools during NADA Show 2023 to help dealerships and finance companies. First, eLEND Solutions launched of DealMaker, a digital finance pre-desking platform. MacInnis ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Latest fraud trends with Point Predictive’s Frank McKenna
Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, 03:28 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Among the episodes of the Auto Remarketing Podcast recorded during the 2023 Vehicle Finance Conference hosted by the American Financial Services Association, this one features Point Predictive chief fraud strategist Frank McKenna. Our monthly look at fraud trends within auto ... [Read More]
Getaround trims 10% of workforce & other costs in hopes of saving as much as $30M annually
Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, 03:24 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
A variety of tech-driven companies have had to trim their workforces recently, and Getaround announced its decision last week. In an effort to streamline operations and reduce costs to achieve a leaner path to profitability, the connected carsharing marketplace made ... [Read More]
Inovatec achieves SOC information security certification
Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, 03:23 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Inovatec Systems is making sure its operations are secure for clients in multiple countries. The provider of cloud-based software solutions for auto finance companies in the U.S. and Canada announced last week that it has successfully completed all SOC certification ... [Read More]
NETSOL extends partnership with Amazon Web Services, becomes API gateway delivery partner
Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, 03:20 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
NETSOL Technologies announced last week that it has become an API gateway delivery partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this extended APN partnership, the global business services and enterprise application solutions provider said it will have access to AWS ... [Read More]
2 Upstart enhancements aimed to bring fully digital auto retail experience
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, 04:32 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Upstart recently added two new applications to its auto retail platform. The artificial intelligence (AI) lending marketplace boosted Digital Finance and Online Sales in an effort to offer dealerships a seamless online to in-store vehicle-buying experience, from search to signing. ... [Read More]
Wolters Kluwer index highlights additional digital asset & workflow adoption for auto and securitization markets
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, 04:30 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Wolters Kluwer recently announced fourth quarter and end-of-year results and analysis from its Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index, a resource designed to track the rate at which auto dealers, service providers and finance companies are seeing growth in the evolution ... [Read More]
defi SOLUTIONS expands servicing capabilities
Monday, Jan. 30, 2023, 06:33 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Amidst all of the industry events in its vicinity, Texas-based defi SOLUTIONS announced an expansion of defi SERVICING features and product roadmap last week. The provider of defi SERVICING and defi ORIGINATIONS (software-as-a-service) and defi MANAGED SERVICING (servicing outsourced) said ... [Read More]
SCUSA chooses Jotanovic to be president of Chrysler Capital and Auto Relationships
Monday, Jan. 30, 2023, 06:31 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
More executive changes at Santander Consumer USA became public last week, as the finance company announced that Betty Jotanovic will assume the role of president of Chrysler Capital and Auto Relationships According to a news release, Jotanovic will be reporting ... [Read More]
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