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Additional insight into FTC’s move involving disparate impact from Hudson Cook
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced it will not pursue claims based on disparate-impact or “unfair discrimination” theories. In this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Hudson Cook partners Erica Kramer and Rob Tilley offered some historical perspectives and a ... Listen Here
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
Wolters Kluwer names top exec for financial & corporate compliance division
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Wolters Kluwer finalized an executive move prompted by a decision made late last year. The company announced this week that Steven Meirink has been named CEO of Wolters Kluwer Financial & Corporate Compliance (FCC), a division that provides lending, regulatory ... [Read More]
TurboPass forms advisory board & names chief revenue officer
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Former Emerging 8 honoree TurboPass reinforced its leadership this week, creating an advisory board while also appointing a chief revenue officer. The provider of an electronic, multi-verification solution for automotive dealers said its advisory board is “comprised of some of ... [Read More]
Lightico integrates Innovis phone verification solution into fraud prevention package
Auto Fin Journal Staff
On Monday, Lightico announced an integration with Innovis, a leading provider of fraud prevention solutions, to provide its authentication tool, FailSafe, to manage fraud risk. Executives said through a news release that the phone ID verification tool will assist current ... [Read More]
TransUnion examines depth of Q4 data breaches
Auto Fin Journal Staff
TransUnion and Sontiq are putting the onus on government agencies after uncovering the latest information about data breaches. According a report that analyzed data from Sontiq’s BreachIQ solution, more than 22 million Americans had personally identifiable information exposed in data ... [Read More]
4 top findings from Point Predictive’s 2023 Auto Lending Fraud Survey
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Point Predictive’s 2023 Auto Lending Fraud Survey showed a record number of finance companies are concerned about increases in fraudulent activity. What concerns survey participants most is income misrepresentation since many believe economic conditions will worsen and continue to drive ... [Read More]
Lendbuzz completes ‘landmark’ $187.95M securitization
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Lendbuzz announced on Tuesday that it has closed a $187.95 million securitization collateralized by a pool of retail automobile contracts made to obligors and secured by new and used automobiles, light duty trucks, and vans. This transaction, Lendbuzz’s first securitization ... [Read More]
Origence integrates with Tekion to bring together credit unions & dealers
Auto Fin Journal Staff
This week, Origence, a technology solutions provider for credit unions, announced a partnership with Tekion, a next-generation, cloud-based automotive retail solutions provider. The partnership integrates CUDL with Tekion technology and positions both organizations to streamline the automotive online shopping and ... [Read More]
J.D. Power examines consumer price sensitivity in EV market
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Amazing when a product’s price drops notably, it correlates into a swell in consumer demand. J.D. Power spotted this phenomenon happening again with electric vehicles. Four J.D. Power experts said that if ever there were a sign that EVs are ... [Read More]
Zest AI makes underwriting technology to smaller credit unions
Auto Fin Journal Staff
With an eye toward serving smaller credit unions that oftentimes cater to diverse and financially challenged communities, Zest AI announced last week that it has expanded its availability to its quick and equitable credit scoring software Now credit unions below ... [Read More]
TransUnion rebrands 7 business solutions
Auto Fin Journal Staff
On Tuesday, TransUnion rebranded its global lines of business solutions. Rolling out first in the U.S., TransUnion said the initiative organizes thousands of existing B2B products into seven solution lines, defined by business need and unified by a promise to ... [Read More]
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