The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made a series of personnel moves last week, including the creation of a new division. Most notably, director Kathleen Kraninger announced that Thomas Pahl will serve as the deputy director of the bureau. Pahl has served as policy associate director for research, markets, and regulations since April 2018. Previously, Pahl […] [Read More]

Mark Luber is hitting the ground running as the chief product officer for Equifax United States Information Solutions (USIS). Just a few days after announcing he joined the company from Cox Automotive, Luber highlighted the newest tool from Equifax; the addition of industry-specific FICO score segmentation data to Equifax weekly U.S. national consumer credit trends […] [Read More]

The next chapter in Chip Perry’s professional career officially began last Friday; this time with another start-up. The executive who previously has served as a leader with The Los Angeles Times, Autotrader and TrueCar became president and chief executive officer of A2Z Sync, a software and dealer-services company that says it can enable dealers to […] [Read More]

The week ending July 5 marked the fifth straight that there were at least 100,000 auction sales of vehicles up to 8 years old, according to the latest Used Market Update from J.D. Power. Specifically, the company estimated the weekly auction sales total at 100,000 units, which is down from 110,000 the week before. However, […] [Read More]

After appearing at Used Car Week and in other content produced by Cherokee Media Group, Edmunds senior manager of insights Ivan Drury made his Auto Remarketing Podcast debut to elaborate about the recent analysis his team completed involving used vehicles and financing of those units. Drury also touched on some interesting trends involving trades that […] [Read More]

In this episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Cherokee Media Group president Bill Zadeits chats with Paul Brobson, the founder and chief executive of Trusted Sale. The company started as a way to facilitate peer-to-peer online transactions, eventually growing into automotive. Last year, Trusted Sale launched what it says is the first CPO program for […] [Read More]

Scrubbing vehicle surfaces because of the coronavirus pandemic is top of mind nowadays, but Privacy4Cars and AutoIMS announced a collaboration this week to clean the technology system of today’s modern models. The companies finalized a new data partnership to provide visibility to consignors and auctions on the removal of nonpublic personal information previous owners and […] [Read More]

Nicholas Financial solidified two of its highest leadership positions this week. The subprime auto finance company announced the appointment of Irina Nashtatik as chief financial officer; a role she had been filing in an interim capacity since November. Nicholas Financial also announced the extension of its employment agreement with president and chief executive officer Doug […] [Read More]

The Spiffy model is now allowing franchising of its on-demand car care, technology and services model. The company, which currently operates in 17 metropolitan areas, announced Thursday that it will start accepting franchise licenses in new markets. “We started Spiffy six years ago with the idea to leverage digital technologies to disrupt the existing automotive […] [Read More]

CarMax plans on finishing the rollout of its omni-channel experience — which allows consumers to tailor their car-buying and delivery experience — by the end of next month. This was among a range of updates shared via email by the nation’s largest used-car retailer, which this spring also added a CarMax Curbside option to its […] [Read More]