TD Auto Finance shines in JD Power Dealer Financing Satisfaction Study for seventh straight year
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Jolt Credit Union partners with Credit Union Leasing of America
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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
CUDL & J.D. Power align to expand digital presence for credit unions & dealers
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Dealers that work with credit unions now each have the potential for more success as two well-known companies in the respective spaces are collaborating. On Thursday, CUDL, one of the nation’s largest credit union financing networks, announced an alliance with ... [Read More]
After gaining 2 industry alliances, DealerPolicy lands $110M in Series C Funding
Auto Fin Journal Staff
It’s been an eventful week for DealerPolicy. First, the insurance marketplace for automotive retail finalized a pair of industry alliances on Tuesday with F&I product provider JM&A Group and J.D. Power subsidiary Darwin Automotive. Then on Thursday, the Emerging 8 honoree ... [Read More]
AutoAPR launches tool to create easy shopper path to test drives
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Perhaps if potential buyers already know how much the monthly payment might be for the vehicle they want, they might be more inclined to test drive the car. That’s the premise behind the latest tool from AutoAPR, a payment engagement ... [Read More]
DealerPolicy gains alliances with JM&A Group & Darwin to deliver next-generation F&I products
Auto Fin Journal Staff
DealerPolicy finalized a pair of industry alliances on Tuesday. The Emerging 8 honoree and insurance marketplace for automotive retail announced a strategic alliance with JM&A Group, one of the largest independent providers of F&I products and dealer services in the ... [Read More]
Rocket Auto revamps online presence to boost dealer & inventory exposure
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Rocket Auto has been involved in vehicle retailing and financing for the past four years. On Tuesday, the division of Rocket Companies introduced a new website with a primary focus on providing what Rocket Auto contends will be a simple ... [Read More]
COMMENTARY: Strength & resiliency — The rebound of new-vehicle financing
Melinda Zabritski, Experian
Factory shutdowns. Stay-at-home orders. A microchip shortage. Those are just a few of the events that occurred in what’s been nothing short of a challenging year and a half for the automotive industry, particularly in regard to new vehicle financing. ... [Read More]
Constant & DirectID partner to offer banks & credit unions servicing & loss mitigation services
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Constant, a provider of digitized, self-service technologies, recently announced that it has partnered with DirectID, a global credit risk platform, in an effort to transform digital loan servicing and loss mitigation for banks and credit unions. According to a news ... [Read More]
Equifax makes intelligence available through AWS Data Exchange & Snowflake Data Marketplace
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Equifax recently made two moves in an effort to make select differentiated data assets more widely available. Equifax announced one offering through AWS Data Exchange through Amazon Web Services (AWS) and another through the Snowflake Data Marketplace. The path through ... [Read More]
iLending raises $35M to handle growth for auto refinancing
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Within days of the new chief executive officer describing the ripe opportunities for auto refinancing, iLendingDIRECT secured more funding to grow its operations and more. On Friday, iLending announced that it has raised an additional $35 million through a transaction ... [Read More]
5 parts of latest FFIEC guidance on authentication & access to digital banking systems
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Last week, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued updated guidance that provides financial institutions with examples of effective authentication and access risk management principles and practices for customers, employees and third parties accessing digital banking services and information ... [Read More]
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