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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
Matt Babcock of Wolters Kluwer on how digital transformation continues to gain steam in auto financing
Matt Babcock, who heads up digital lending product strategy for Wolters Kluwer, returned for another visit on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Wolter Kluwer recently released its latest quarterly Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index. Babcock recapped the sustained upward trajectory the ... Listen Here

PureCars reinforces dealer marketing suite by acquiring truPayments

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Auto Fin Journal Staff
In a separate email message, truPayments chief executive officer Tarry Shebesta said: “Today starts the next chapter of my 32-year career in the online marketing, shopping and digital retailing space.” The reason for Shebesta’s declaration arrived through a news release ... [Read More]

GM Financial launches program to foster talent from HBCUs

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Auto Fin Journal Staff
GM Financial is reinforcing its commitment to help students who attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This summer, the captive launched its first Sophomore Leadership Program to provide HBCU students with an in-depth, first-person look at the auto finance ... [Read More]

Alfa rolls out 3rd whitepaper to complete series on AI & ML

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Auto Fin Journal Staff
Alfa, provider of the asset finance software platform Alfa Systems, recently published the third and final paper in its thought leadership series, “AI in Equipment and Auto Finance.” The whitepaper titled, “Part 3: Moving Forward with Machine Learning” was produced ... [Read More]

Senators aim to create federal equivalent of CFPB to regulate consumer data

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Auto Fin Journal Staff
A measure was recently introduced in the U.S. Senate that aims to create another agency on par with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but for regulatory oversight of data. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand recently announced her renewed legislation — the Data ... [Read More]

J.D. Power creates dealership technologies division by acquiring Darwin Automotive

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Auto Fin Journal Staff
One of this year’s Emerging 8 honorees now has new ownership. On Wednesday, J.D. Power announced it has acquired Superior Integrated Solutions/Darwin Automotive, a leading provider of F&I software used by dealerships. The company highlighted in a news release that ... [Read More]

3 new features for vehicle shoppers using Driveway

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Auto Fin Journal Staff
Lithia Motors isn’t just buying franchised dealerships. The company also is investing in Driveway. On Tuesday, executives announced three new features powered by artificial intelligence now are live on driveway.com. Driveway’s upgraded shopping experience can enable customers to shop and ... [Read More]

Tekion gains integration with RouteOne

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Auto Remarketing Staff
Tekion recently finalized an integration with Dealertrack F&I. Now the automotive retail cloud platform has an integration with RouteOne, too. The service providers recently announced the integration of their automotive retailing platforms to better serve dealers and improve the digital ... [Read More]

McGlinchey welcomes former captive corporate counsel to national compliance team

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Auto Fin Journal Staff
McGlinchey Stafford recently added an experienced legal expert whose experience includes time with a luxury brand’s captive finance company. The firm recently welcomed Jason Bichsel to its national consumer financial services compliance practice group as a member (partner) associated with ... [Read More]

3 suggestions for handling cybercrime from 3 New York Fed economists

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Auto Remarketing Staff
Using what a trio of economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York considered to be the most damaging cyberattack in history, they recently updated an in-depth examination of cybercrime while offering three suggestions that could benefit finance companies ... [Read More]

Mercedes-Benz shares initial details of data breach impacting about 1,000 customers

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Auto Fin Journal Staff
A potential pitfall of digital retailing recently impacted a luxury automaker. And it might have stemmed from activity long before the pandemic arrived and pushed automakers and dealerships deep into the digital domain. According to a news release, a vendor ... [Read More]

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