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Sponsored Episode: Winning Trade-Ins and Trust – Navigating Today’s Affordability Challenges
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 03:15 PM
Affordability challenges are reshaping the automotive landscape—vehicle prices and payments are at all-time highs and negative equity is on the rise. In this episode, Micah Tindor offers a data-driven conversation with real-world strategies around acquisition tactics and long-term profitability to ... Listen Here
Sponsored Episode: Winning Talent Strategies for Car Dealerships – with CDK & Industry Leaders
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, 10:00 AM
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, host Bruce Johnson from CDK sits down with Tyler Jones, President of EV Auto, and Joe Brown, CMO at Frank Leta, to explore proven strategies for attracting and retaining top talent ... Listen Here
Dissecting evolving credit scores with Shams Blanc of FICO
Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, 03:34 PM
As much as auto-finance underwriting has become sophisticated, a potential starting point to determine if the applicant will be offered an installment contract is the credit score. Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, described the ... Listen Here

MotoRefi generates $8.6M Series A Funding from more than 5 sources

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Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, 07:28 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
MotoRefi, which strives to save vehicle owners money with a refinanced installment contract, now has quite a bit of funding to expand its business. Last week, the fintech company that says it can save contract holders an average of $100 ... [Read More]

AutoFi receives investment from BMW i Ventures

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Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, 07:24 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Another one of the inaugural Emerging 8 honorees is continuing to gain industry traction. Last week, BMW i Ventures announced an investment in AutoFi, a technology company honored during last year’s Automotive Intelligence Summit. The exact funding figure wasn’t revealed ... [Read More]

Reynolds acquires GoMoto & launches new CRM tool

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Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, 04:45 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Along with introducing a new customer relationship management system (CRM) for dealers, Reynolds and Reynolds recently announced the acquisition of GoMoto, a provider in kiosk technology for the service lane that can offer streamlined, self-led customer check-in and check-out. Robert ... [Read More]

Equifax unveils 3 more solutions within automotive portfolio

Equifax at NADA for web
Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, 04:43 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The recent events hosted by the American Financial Services Association and the National Automobile Dealers Association marked Equifax unveiling a trio of new solutions aimed at help dealerships retail more vehicles and finance companies build their portfolios. The series of ... [Read More]

DealerSocket CRM now integrated with captives for Audi & VW

DealerSocket Audi VW for web
Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, 04:33 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
DealerSocket, Audi and Volkswagen are collaborating to make deliveries more efficient for their chain of franchised dealerships. On Monday, DealerSocket announced that VW Credit selected its customer relationship management (CRM) suite to help drive connections between vehicle buyers and its ... [Read More]

Applications being taken for 2020 FIS Fintech Accelerator

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Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, 05:08 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
About a month still remains for startups to submit their applications to be a part of the 2020 FIS Fintech Accelerator, which is conducted in collaboration with the state of Arkansas and Little Rock-based The Venture Center. Now in its ... [Read More]

FICO preps for summertime release of revamped score suite

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Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, 05:06 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
FICO will be trying to heat up your underwriting capabilities and portfolio performance in the coming months. This summer, finance companies can take advantage of the new capabilities offered by FICO that will come through its flagship FICO Score and ... [Read More]

Consumers, dealers and OEMs seek clarity on protection, access to driver data

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Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, 05:28 PM
Jack Ferry, Correspondent
Today’s connected vehicles are generating infinitely more real-time data than drivers, manufacturers or dealers could have imagined five to 10 years ago. This information monitors the performance of the vehicle for maintenance, dependability and research purposes, as well as providing ... [Read More]

LexisNexis Risk Solutions closes acquisition of ID Analytics

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Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, 05:23 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
LexisNexis Risk Solutions closed January by announcing it finalized the acquisition of ID Analytics, the San Diego-based provider of fraud and credit risk solutions. Previously, ID Analytics was a NortonLifeLock company. LexisNexis Risk Solutions said the strategic acquisition of data ... [Read More]

PointPredictive adds PenFed to client list using fraud solution suite

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Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, 04:33 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
PointPredictive landed another high-profile client this week; this time an institution that’s considered to be the nation’s second-largest federal credit union. The San Diego-based company and Emerging 8 honoree that builds artificial and natural intelligence (Ai+Ni) models using machine learning ... [Read More]
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