COMMENTARY: The LLM compliance paradox & separating conversational AI from quantitative underwriting
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Used Car Week Hall of Fame honoree Jared Kalfus of Black Book
We finish our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees with a conversation featuring Black Book president Jared Kalfus. Kalfus describes what it takes to be successful in sales and why face-to-face conversations are still vitally ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: Prospects for more auto refinancing with Gravity Lending
In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast brought to you by Allied Solutions, we turn our attention to auto refinancing. Brad Paxman oversees 90 lender relationships for Gravity Lending, which is an auto refinance and fintech company ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Fame: Bob McConkey of McConkey Auction Group
Next up on our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees is a conversation with Bob McConkey, president and CEO of the McConkey Auction Group. McConkey, along with MAG chief operating officer David Pendergraft and DAA ... Listen Here
Former Capital One exec to be Ally’s new chief information and data officer
Auto Fin Journal Staff
A professional whose career includes time with Capital One and Fannie Mae is set to become chief information and data officer of Ally Financial. On Monday, the company announced the appointment of Mark Mathewson as CIDO, effective July 20. In ... [Read More]
KredosAi raises $7M in Series A funding to expand AI-powered collections platform into auto and beyond
Auto Fin Journal Staff
With the auto-finance market among its targets, KredosAi, an artificial intelligence-powered collections platform that enhances revenue recovery by leveraging behavioral intelligence, recently announced the close of a $7 million Series A funding round led by BMW i Ventures. According to ... [Read More]
Odessa’s newest platform capabilities aim to give clients flexibility without major IT lift
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Odessa is bringing a do-it-yourself technology value proposition to asset finance organizations. On Tuesday, the software provider launched Configurable Attributes, a new capability that can allow clients to adapt to the Odessa platform by themselves without custom code or vendor ... [Read More]
SBS is bringing AI to products banks already run
Auto Fin Journal Staff
SBS — the global financial technology company that more than 1,500 financial institutions including AutoUse, NextGear Capital and Soda Capital use to digitally transform the way they operate — is launching SBS AI Foundation. The new development embeds enterprise artificial ... [Read More]
With eyes on auto, VantageScore launches all-new 5.0 credit score model
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The newest credit evaluation scoring tool from VantageScore launched Wednesday and is designed in part to benefit auto financing. VantageScore announced the availability of its newest tri-bureau credit score model, VantageScore 5.0. Building on VantageScore’s history of credit score innovation, ... [Read More]
2 ways Algebrik AI remains in growth mode
Auto Fin Journal Staff
About a week after welcoming a new chief growth officer, Algebrik AI on Monday announced that MidWest America Federal Credit Union is now using the service provider’s cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered loan origination suite (LOS). The institution selected Algebrik One, which ... [Read More]
TruDecision & FUSE bring complementary lending technologies to partnership
Auto Fin Journal Staff
TruDecision and FUSE forged a partnership this week. The companies explained this partnership means FUSE clients will gain seamless access to TruDecision’s suite of advanced analytics solutions, enabling lenders to improve automation, enhance risk assessment, streamline underwriting workflows, and optimize ... [Read More]
Advent Resources now available throughout Texas as dealers face rising fraud, compliance pressures
Auto Fin Journal Staff
You could say that technology offerings from Advent Resources now are as big as Texas. The software provider that powers the financial layer of the car deal said last week that it is expanding its reach across the Lone Star ... [Read More]
Dealer eProcess picks Informativ to generate payment details in its digital retailing platform
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Dealer eProcess selected Informativ’s Payments API to power the payment calculation functionality within its digital retailing platform, Everest Retailing. “The choice was clear,” Dealer eProcess COO Sam Vukas said in a news release. “Our review of payment data providers found ... [Read More]
Clutch says 6 of 10 largest credit unions now use digital origination and AI platform
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Clutch is on an upward trajectory moving almost as fast as artificial intelligence. Founded in 2020 by fintech veterans Nicholas Hinrichsen and Chris Coleman, the digital origination and AI platform built exclusively for credit unions said it has tripled revenue ... [Read More]
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