Element to acquire Car IQ, bringing vehicle-initiated payments into fleet management
Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, 12:09 PM
Sumsub report on global fraud explains ‘sophistication shift’
Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, 11:52 AM
FICO & Plaid to leverage cash data for enhanced UltraFICO Score
Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, 11:50 AM
Cutting keys & cutting costs during repossessions and recoveries
Drawing standing-room-only attendance in the second-largest setting at Used Car Week 2025, Ryan Miller led a six-executive panel session that focused on one of the most complex challenges in all of repossessions and recoveries. Now available through this episode of ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:42 PM
Four experts on automotive & the economy
Used Car Week 2025 again brought together experts who can explain which parts of the economy impact automotive most. This year’s event included views from Laura Wehunt of Black Book, Tim Gill of the American Financial Services Association, T.J. Cox ... Listen Here
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:39 PM
Sponsored Episode: Winning Trade-Ins and Trust – Navigating Today’s Affordability Challenges
Affordability challenges are reshaping the automotive landscape—vehicle prices and payments are at all-time highs and negative equity is on the rise. In this episode, Micah Tindor offers a data-driven conversation with real-world strategies around acquisition tactics and long-term profitability to ... Listen Here
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 03:15 PM
Dealertrack enhances F&I solutions & DMS to meet digital demands
Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, 04:49 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The two primary segments of Dealertrack’s tools for dealerships and finance companies — F&I solutions and DMS — are each being upgraded to adapt to consumers’ accelerated shift toward digital purchasing as well as achieve higher efficiency and productivity in ... [Read More]
Point Predictive adds M&T Bank to client portfolio using fraud-prevention tools
Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, 04:47 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Point Predictive recently landed another working relationship with a commercial bank that is looking to weed out fraud from its operations and portfolio. The Emerging 8 honoree that provides machine learning solutions to the lending industry, announced that M&T Bank ... [Read More]
Ally funding several initiatives in connection with Black History Month
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, 07:23 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Ally Financial again is organizing support for a variety of initiatives now that Black History Month is underway, saying that access to careers with long-term growth potential is still not equal for everyone. To address this inequity, the company announced ... [Read More]
Hyundai Capital America now available for eContracting via RouteOne
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, 05:32 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Hyundai, Kia and Genesis dealers that use RouteOne now have more functionality when working with their captive finance company. RouteOne recently announced that Hyundai Capital America is now an available eContracting finance source for utilizing the RouteOne platform. Through RouteOne ... [Read More]
AutoFi debuts Lending as a Service capabilities
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, 05:30 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Just like a finance company might do with its portfolio, fintechs diversify, too. Look at what’s happening at AutoFi. Building on the strength of its digital retail platform, AutoFi has launched a new business division focused on the automotive industry’s largest ... [Read More]
Tresl & CreditSnap enhance relationship with investment & solution launch
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, 05:26 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Tresl is making an investment in a fellow fintech stemming from a relationship that began nearly two years ago. And the firms are also rolling out a tool aimed to help banks and credit unions. On Tuesday, Tresl announced that ... [Read More]
Inovatec launches optical character recognition within JAVELIN
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, 05:21 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Inovatec Systems Corp. rebranded its cloud-based software solutions back in October. This week, the fintech firm launched a major enhancement designed to save time and manual labor. Inovatec announced its JAVELIN platform now offers optical character recognition (OCR) for automatic ... [Read More]
After 3 major accomplishments in 2020, MotoRefi announces $10M in new funding
Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, 03:56 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Within a week, another Emerging 8 honoree received an injection of financial resources from the investment world. Soon after an announcement by Volta, fellow honoree MotoRefi — an auto refinancing startup on a mission to help people save on their ... [Read More]
COMMENTARY: How all components are in place for automotive digital retailing in 2021
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, 05:03 PM
Rusty West, Market Scan
It is certainly an understatement to say the world has been turned on to online shopping and digital retailing. According to Adobe Analytics, during the 2020 Black Friday event, online sales increased 22% over the previous year. What’s more, the ... [Read More]
Volta lands $125M in Series D funding to accelerate EV charging station network
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, 04:43 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Volta certainly recharged its finances to begin 2021. The Emerging 8 honoree previously highlighted in Auto Fin Journal and developer of commerce-centric electric vehicle charging networks announced an oversubscribed Series D financing of $125 million. Volta said this week that Goldman ... [Read More]
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