With Presidio Group as exclusive financial advisor, Carputty closes Series B financing to push total capital raise past $40M
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Jericho Information Technology & Fuse share initial goals for partnership
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SPONSORED EPISODE: Rethinking vehicle-protection plans for today’s wide inventory mix with GWC Warranty
Used-car inventory on dealer lots nowadays can range from older, higher-mileage vehicles to EVs, lifted trucks, and modified vehicles. The result is dealers are also having to change the vehicle-protection conversations with customers. In this special sponsored episode of the ... Listen Here
Recapping credit scores & other trends in auto finance with Shams Blanc of FICO
Shams Blanc, head of auto scores at FICO, made another appearance on the Auto Remarketing Podcast to elaborate more about the fall edition of the FICO Score Credit Insights report. Along with recapping what’s going on in auto finance, Blanc ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: Greenville Auto Auction Celebrates 16 Years—A look back and a look ahead
On this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Bill Zadeits visits with Billy Willis and Kevin Stallings of Greenville Auto Auction. The auction celebrates 16 years in early September, and the guys talk about the history of the sale, ... Listen Here
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]
FUSE Autotech closes another $10M in funding
Auto Fin Journal Staff
In January, Walser Automotive Group, in partnership with PICO Venture Partners, announced the launch of a cloud-based predictive finance management system fueled by artificial intelligence that’s designed to cut the delivery process down from an average of three hours to ... [Read More]
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