Tracy Noonan Fred, a veteran of more than 30 years in the auto industry, has joined FordDirect as chief operating officer. Fred will work with Chris Thornton, who took over as CEO in November, in leading the joint venture between Ford Motor Company and its dealers in its mission to integrate digital strategy, data and […] [Read More]

Randy Kobat is the newest executive at Lotlinx, as the company on Wednesday appointed him as its chief commercial officer. Kobat comes to Lotlinx after most recently serving as president of Repair OnDemand, a division of Repairify backed by Kinderhook Industries. Lotlinx highlighted that Kobat brings decades of executive leadership experience across automotive software and […] [Read More]

Lease End, a platform designed for simplifying the vehicle lease buyout process, on Tuesday announced record-breaking results for 2025, which included revenue growing by 60% year-over-year and 1,559% since 2021. The company said it helped more than 19,000 lessees unlock $108 million in equity and $73 million in savings during the lease-return process. Lease End […] [Read More]

Informativ, a provider of fraud prevention, compliance, credit, and payments technology for the automotive and consumer finance industries, on Tuesday announced that Dominic (Nick) Brignola has joined the company as chief financial officer. Most recently, Brignola was chief financial officer at Hallmark Health Care Solutions, a nationwide provider of technology for health systems and provider […] [Read More]

DriveCentric, a CRM provider for automotive dealerships, on Tuesday announced an enhanced integration with National Credit Center (NCC), an automotive credit and compliance platform. The expanded integration embeds key capabilities from NCC’s Complete Credit platform inside DriveCentric, giving dealerships complete visibility into credit applications, reports, and compliance details without leaving the CRM. The companies acknowledged […] [Read More]

As a dealer, you want to get paid accurately and completely, correct? Well, Dealer Pay and CrossCheck are now working together to make sure that happens through a strategic partnership designed to improve the way automotive retail businesses handle financial transactions. This collaboration combines Dealer Pay’s point-of-sale (POS) solutions with CrossCheck’s advanced check, ACH and […] [Read More]

Instead of booking subprime auto paper, Westlake Financial sold approximately $100 million of subprime auto loans in what it called a “landmark transaction.” Westlake on Tuesday announced the successful sale to HFC Acceptance that included what the companies dubbed a “first-of-its-kind structure” for both organizations and was completed at a 112% principal premium. According to […] [Read More]

One of the honorees among the 2023 Women in Collections and Recoveries has a new executive position. Allied Solutions posted on social media this week that Jessie Herdrich Irwin joined the company as its vice president of recovery operations. The company said Herdrich Irwin will lead the strategic and operational management of its recovery product […] [Read More]

Led by commercial consignor volumes, annual auto auction sales volumes reached their highest point in six years, beat prior-year figures by more than 4% and have turned a corner from the pandemic-aftermath lows of the early 2020s. That’s according to the latest AuctionNet data and commentary from the National Auto Auction Association, which said there […] [Read More]

Robert Guerrero spent nearly 14 years as an executive with Insurance Auto Auctions, so he understands the complexities of damaged vehicles, distraught owners, auto insurers and repair shops. Now as the president and co-founder of ClaimBuyout, Guerrero explained how damaged vehicles with plenty of viable life remaining can be another plentiful source of dealership inventory. […] [Read More]