A relationship that has been ongoing for more than a decade will go on awhile longer. Safe-Guard Canada, a platform for private-label protection products for the automotive, RV, marine, and powersports industries, announced a four-year extension of its partnership with Nissan Canada Extended Services Inc., a collaboration that began in 2014. “Our partnership with Nissan […] [Read More]

AAA reported on Tuesday that the average cost for a gallon of gas in the U.S. hit $4.14, adding fuel to the challenges already happening in multiple parts of auto financing. Experts at Comerica Bank, Cox Automotive and Experian all chimed in with analysis, touching on how federal tax refunds are providing a temporary solution […] [Read More]

Usually, a booster launches a rocket. This time, RockED is launching Booster. The automotive training platform announced the creation of Booster, an automated performance management system designed to improve service advisor performance. RockED said the system combines its learning platform with live performance leaderboards and “tailors coaching to the individual gaps of every employee.” In […] [Read More]

voAIce Corporation has made a deal to bring its artificial intelligence technology together with customer relationship management data. The company announced it has acquired TheCRM Corporation to create a single intelligence system for retail dealerships, combining TheCRM’s live dealership data infrastructure with voAIce’s AI. With the deal, voAIce has introduced DealerCRM, which joins OliviaAI, DealerIdentify […] [Read More]

The automotive wholesale ecosystem has always relied on trust. Dealers trust auctions. Auctions trust carriers. Carriers trust brokers. And somewhere in the middle of that chain, vehicles move across the country every day with the expectation that they will arrive where they are supposed to, in the condition they were sold. Most of the time, […] [Read More]

The debt collection industry is undergoing a technological transformation driven by artificial intelligence (AI), digital communication platforms, and data analytics. Despite widespread adoption of these tools, many organizations continue to underperform. This article argues that the gap between technological capability and operational execution is the primary cause of this underperformance. Drawing on over two decades […] [Read More]

TransUnion wants finance companies and lenders to see the company as a marketing resource, not just a credit bureau. To boost that potential, TransUnion recently launched TruIQ Credit Strategy Studio, which is a self-service prescreen solution designed to streamline campaign development and activation. TransUnion said its solution can reduce prescreen build times by up to […] [Read More]

In 2025, AutoCanada reached its target of $115 million in annual cost savings. Mission accomplished. Turns out, though, that was only half the mission. Even as the dealership group’s drive for efficiency pulled it out of a deep financial hole toward stable ground, revenue, sales volume and profit all fell significantly in the fourth quarter […] [Read More]

The Dream grows in South Florida. Dream Motor Group, owned by College Football Hall of Fame coach Nick Saban, Joe Agresti and Steve Cannon, has acquired two dealerships in the area from Bill Seidle’s Automotive Group, according to The Presidio Group, which represented the buyer in the transaction. The addition of Bill Seidle’s Nissan and […] [Read More]

PayNearMe rolled out three new capabilities to its platform last week designed to keep payers in the self-service channel — or bring them back — so that payments can be completed more efficiently. The new capabilities within its PayXM platform include Payer Re-Engagement, Dynamic Payment Options and Invite a Payer, which are designed to extend […] [Read More]