Former Market Scan chief data officer launches own VIN-level intelligence company
Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, 11:26 AM
COMMENTARY: Blockchain in automotive — the quiet shift from experiment to infrastructure
Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, 11:39 AM
5 predictions in Experian’s 2026 Future of Fraud Forecast
Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, 12:19 PM
Lenders, forwarders & agents discuss repo bottlenecks
In another of the Used Car Week 2025 panel discussions focused on repossessions and recoveries, AutoSquared.ai co-founder Bahador Rahimi led a conversation that included lenders, forwarders and agents. The group exchanged ideas about how industry firms can smooth the bottlenecks ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, 07:16 PM
Napleton’s customer experience success story
In 2023, Ed Napleton Automotive Group’s national CX director Eduardo Rodriguez launched a new customer experience program based around tools and technology from Reputation that quickly produced eye-opening results, a success story that can be found in the January issue ... Listen Here
Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, 09:20 PM
Fact or fiction — The truth behind EVs
Auto Hauler Exchange chief operating officer Dana Randazzo spent part of Used Car Week 2025 on the Live Stage presented by SYCN Auto Logistics. Randazzo and Cherokee Media Group’s Joe Overby shared a conversation titled, “Fact or fiction — The ... Listen Here
Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, 07:58 PM
Tresl welcomes 130 associates during past year with plans to add more by end of Q3
Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2021, 03:57 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Tresl might be involved in fintech with its auto finance support platform, but the company is quickly reinforcing its human resources. The company recently said that it has on-boarded more than 130 new associates during the past 12 months. And ... [Read More]
IDS completes White Clarke Group acquisition, shifts Gleeson to new role
Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2021, 03:55 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Acquisition closed and top executive shifted into a new role. Those are the two main developments to arrive via news releases from IDS and White Clarke Group on Tuesday and Wednesday. First, IDS — a provider of mission-critical enterprise solutions ... [Read More]
Darwin enhances digital retailing tool with ActivEngage chat integration
Wednesday, May. 26, 2021, 03:28 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
One of this year’s Emerging 8 honorees updated one of its tools that generated some of the reasons why the firm earned the accolade. Darwin Automotive this week announced that the most recent update to its digital retailing application ensures ... [Read More]
Experian enters income & employment verification spaces with new solutions
Wednesday, May. 26, 2021, 03:25 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Complications created by the pandemic made the job of underwriting departments even more challenging since that segment of finance companies is tasked with confirming a myriad of details to ensure quality paper flows into portfolios. To support the collective recovery ... [Read More]
Seventh Knight rolls out ransomware prevention tool powered by IBM
Tuesday, May. 18, 2021, 08:58 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Perhaps what happened to the Colonial Pipeline has you thinking about if your finance company suddenly suffered a ransomware attack and how it might cripple your originations and collections. To help companies of all kinds, Seventh Knight recently developed an embedded ... [Read More]
ACH Network volume spikes 11.2% during record-setting Q1
Tuesday, May. 18, 2021, 08:17 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
It delights auto-finance companies when their customers set up an ACH path for monthly payments. And providers likely are excited about that stream potentially growing since Nacha, which governs the ACH Network, saw total volume soar during the first quarter ... [Read More]
Point Predictive: Auto-finance fraud tops $7B in 2020
Monday, May. 17, 2021, 02:21 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Point Predictive pinpointed a number in connection with one of the important topics being discussed this week during the Auto Intel Summit. According to the company’s Auto Fraud Report, Point Predictive said fraud reaching $7.3 billion of originations last year, ... [Read More]
DRIVRZ Financial & Roadster align to offer digital used-vehicle leasing experience
Friday, May. 14, 2021, 03:54 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Easterns Automotive operates eight locations in Maryland and Virginia near Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and the group is one of the first dealerships to enjoy success stemming from the used-vehicle leasing tool put in motion by DRIVRZ Financial and Roadster. ... [Read More]
RouteOne promotes 2 of its longest-tenured executives
Friday, May. 14, 2021, 03:44 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
This week, RouteOne announced two executive promotions; moves that are effective immediately. The company founded nearly two decades ago to improve the F&I process for dealers and their customers said Jeff Belanger now is RouteOne’s chief revenue officer and Amanda ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Leaders on formation & initial success of AFSA’s Diversity and Inclusion Working Group
Wednesday, May. 12, 2021, 01:40 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
In April, the American Financial Services Association announced the official formation of its Diversity and Inclusion Working Group to enhance its efforts to foster a culture of diversity and inclusion within the financial services industry. Prabir Chakrabarty, vice president ... [Read More]
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