GM Financial is enhancing its efforts to ensure the individuals signing contracts with the captive are in fact who they say they are. This week, GM Financial announced its collaboration with Spring Labs as part of its Spring Founding Industry Partners (SFIP) Program, which is geared to drive improved data management standards to help address […] [Read More]

LMP Automotive Holdings (LMP) and DriveItAway are working together to get vehicles to drivers who are working for Uber and Lyft. LMP has made its vehicles available on the DriveItAway platform to Uber and Lyft drivers in Florida. DriveItAway is a unique “one-stop” shared mobility application for dealers. DriveItAway App users can now subscribe to […] [Read More]

Black Book’s dealer-focused subscription application, Black Book Cherry, helps dealers identify the most desirable vehicles at auction, and it provides valuation and appraisal functionality. Black Book announced Monday that Black Book Cherry would replace Black Book Digital as the company’s flagship mobile app and that it would feature new enhancements such as the ability of users […] [Read More]

Zubie, a connected-car platform and telematics data insights provider, says its end-to-end connected-car technology has delivered real-time information about vehicles and drivers since 2012 to help businesses manage and optimize their fleets. Seeking to fuel growth in the fleet sector and to introduce new verticals with its connected-car products, the company noted on Thursday that […] [Read More]

Manheim has seen how consumer brands such as Amazon and Netflix have increased customer engagement by deploying personalized services. Now, Manheim is following that example to enhance its own offerings, like its mobile app and Simulcast service. In other Manheim news, the company is now integrating with vAuto’s Provision to help dealers value consumer trade-ins and […] [Read More]

During the Vehicle Finance Conference hosted by the American Financial Services Association this past January in San Francisco, Nick had the opportunity again to sit down with Kyle Birch, executive vice president and chief operating officer for North America at GM Financial. The wide-ranging conversation covered not only how GM Financial performed in 2018, but […] [Read More]

The latest wholesale market analysis from RVI Group described price trends also highlighted by Manheim and Black Book for the opening month of the year. In the United States, analysts determined the RVI Used Vehicle Price Index (UVPI) came in at 1.014 in January compared to 1.059 in December and 1.004 in January of last […] [Read More]

All of the metrics Westlake Technology Holdings shared about its 2018 performance headed in directions that would please just about any executive team or board of directors. And the company already is aiming for double-digit improvement this year. The company recently announced its portfolio grew 35 percent in 2018, finishing at an all-time high of […] [Read More]

Effective immediately, Matt Ruszkowski has been named president and chief operating officer of Carleton, a provider of compliant consumer loan calculations and lending document generation software. A company news release indicated Ruszkowski will lead Carleton’s experienced executive leadership team toward continued growth and the introduction of new software and services in the lending industry. “It […] [Read More]

AUL Corp. recently promoted one of its managers who has been with the vehicle service contracts administrator for more than a dozen years. According to a news release, AUL president and chief executive officer Jimmy Atkinson has elevated Deonna Frank to the position of manager of operations and cancellations. In her new role, Frank will […] [Read More]