COMMENTARY: The LLM compliance paradox & separating conversational AI from quantitative underwriting
Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, 03:20 PM
Latest two moves by US Bank have dealers & OEMs in mind
Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, 10:51 AM
COMMENTARY: Calibrating AI risk models for shifting macroeconomic cycles
Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, 03:11 PM
Used Car Week Hall of Fame honoree Jared Kalfus of Black Book
We finish our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees with a conversation featuring Black Book president Jared Kalfus. Kalfus describes what it takes to be successful in sales and why face-to-face conversations are still vitally ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: Prospects for more auto refinancing with Gravity Lending
In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast brought to you by Allied Solutions, we turn our attention to auto refinancing. Brad Paxman oversees 90 lender relationships for Gravity Lending, which is an auto refinance and fintech company ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Fame: Bob McConkey of McConkey Auction Group
Next up on our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees is a conversation with Bob McConkey, president and CEO of the McConkey Auction Group. McConkey, along with MAG chief operating officer David Pendergraft and DAA ... Listen Here
10 primary findings from eLEND Solutions’ latest dealer survey
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Digital financing innovator eLEND Solutions highlighted more than 10 findings from its latest dealer survey, reiterating how the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged dealerships to embrace digital retailing as a low-touch transaction alternative and how this adoption of technology has changed ... [Read More]
Black Book integrates with Origence consumer loan origination system
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Black Book’s presence in the credit-union market strengthened on Thursday. The provider of vehicle pricing and analytics announced the integration of Black Book values into the Origence consumer LOS, a CU Direct brand. The companies highlighted in a news release ... [Read More]
New York investment firm to secure majority stake in iLendingDIRECT
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Private investment firm J.C. Flowers & Co. announced on Tuesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to make a majority investment in iLendingDIRECT, a leading auto refinance marketing company. While terms of the transaction were not disclosed, J.C. Flowers ... [Read More]
Dealertrack enhances F&I solutions & DMS to meet digital demands
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The two primary segments of Dealertrack’s tools for dealerships and finance companies — F&I solutions and DMS — are each being upgraded to adapt to consumers’ accelerated shift toward digital purchasing as well as achieve higher efficiency and productivity in ... [Read More]
Point Predictive adds M&T Bank to client portfolio using fraud-prevention tools
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Point Predictive recently landed another working relationship with a commercial bank that is looking to weed out fraud from its operations and portfolio. The Emerging 8 honoree that provides machine learning solutions to the lending industry, announced that M&T Bank ... [Read More]
Ally funding several initiatives in connection with Black History Month
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Ally Financial again is organizing support for a variety of initiatives now that Black History Month is underway, saying that access to careers with long-term growth potential is still not equal for everyone. To address this inequity, the company announced ... [Read More]
Hyundai Capital America now available for eContracting via RouteOne
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Hyundai, Kia and Genesis dealers that use RouteOne now have more functionality when working with their captive finance company. RouteOne recently announced that Hyundai Capital America is now an available eContracting finance source for utilizing the RouteOne platform. Through RouteOne ... [Read More]
AutoFi debuts Lending as a Service capabilities
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Just like a finance company might do with its portfolio, fintechs diversify, too. Look at what’s happening at AutoFi. Building on the strength of its digital retail platform, AutoFi has launched a new business division focused on the automotive industry’s largest ... [Read More]
Tresl & CreditSnap enhance relationship with investment & solution launch
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Tresl is making an investment in a fellow fintech stemming from a relationship that began nearly two years ago. And the firms are also rolling out a tool aimed to help banks and credit unions. On Tuesday, Tresl announced that ... [Read More]
Inovatec launches optical character recognition within JAVELIN
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Inovatec Systems Corp. rebranded its cloud-based software solutions back in October. This week, the fintech firm launched a major enhancement designed to save time and manual labor. Inovatec announced its JAVELIN platform now offers optical character recognition (OCR) for automatic ... [Read More]
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