Both during an in-person event as well as an online setting, Spyne recently has had the opportunity to explain how artificial intelligence is impacting the ways potential car buyers and service customers find and interact with dealerships. Beginning first while speaking at NCM Clients & Friends 2026, Spyne’s head of U.S. business acknowledged automotive retail […] [Read More]

Southeast Toyota Finance is among the clients already seeing measurable benefits from the relaunch of Alfa’s artificial intelligence assistant. The platform provider for asset finance redeployed AskThea as Thea Chat, which is designed to put Alfa Systems’ expertise directly in users’ hands. Thea Chat can help teams answer complex questions, make configuration decisions and solve […] [Read More]

Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) this week added Alliance Fleet Solutions, a Colorado-based fleet management provider serving fleets throughout Colorado and surrounding markets, to its growing distribution network. Management highlighted the partnership marks an important step in VMS’ strategy to expand access to its technology through a network of established fleet management providers. VMS wants to […] [Read More]

WarrCloud, a platform that aims to automate the OEM warranty claims process for dealers, said Wednesday it has entered a data-sharing agreement with Toyota Motor North America. As part of the agreement, TMNA will send specific data (limited to data sourcing) to WarrCloud to support operational processes regarding warranty claims administration for Toyota and Lexus […] [Read More]

Dealers now can use buy now, pay later paths like their consumer customers. Last week, Parafin, an embedded finance company for platforms, announced a partnership with Tekion, an artificial intelligence-native platform serving the entire automotive retail ecosystem. Together, they launched Pay Over Time, a business-to-business (B2B) buy now, pay later solution for dealership business customers. […] [Read More]

Along with recently landing what’s considered to be the second largest credit union in the United States as a client, AKUVO on Friday announced the promotions of Melissa Bachman to chief product officer and Mike Ruggiero to chief strategy and innovation officer, expanding the company’s executive team and reinforcing its commitment to innovation, customer success, […] [Read More]

The Presidio Group served as exclusive financial advisor on the Series B financing of Carputty to accelerate expansion of its embedded finance platform across the automotive industry. This latest round of financing brings the total capital invested in Carputty — a fintech company modernizing vehicle financing and ownership — to more than $40 million. The […] [Read More]

Jericho Information Technology and Fuse recently formed a new partnership with the goal of rolling out joint initiatives in the coming months. Jericho operates in the indirect auto lending business, importing data from many legacy systems into a single platform to provide daily management of analytics, CRM, risk, compliance, and dealer administration. Jericho also offers […] [Read More]

In a move described as one that will “help shape the future of payments,” PayNearMe announced on Wednesday that it has acquired the technology assets and hired the key employees of Marr Labs, an artificial intelligence company that develops agentic solutions to automate voice, messaging and workflows in complex, regulated environments. PayNearMe highlighted the addition […] [Read More]

On Thursday, Spyne announced an integration with CDK to publish on the Fortellis Marketplace, which means dealers, developers, and OEMs now have the ability to quickly create new solutions designed to streamline dealer operations. The Fortellis Marketplace is an online automotive commerce exchange that enables an exchange of information and data in an open, secure […] [Read More]