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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

TransUnion and IHS Markit collaborate on data-driven decision tool

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Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, 03:19 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
In the competitive and evolving world of auto finance, TransUnion and IHS Markit acknowledged that finance companies require the ability to conduct powerful statistical queries to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the market. On Monday, TransUnion and IHS Markit ... [Read More]

MINI describes what it means by Flipped Financing

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Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, 03:17 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The image associated with this report provides a vivid glimpse of what a luxury automaker and its captive finance company are trying to do. Last week, MINI USA and MINI Financial Services announced the introduction of Flipped Financing, a vehicle financing ... [Read More]

Hyundai Capital America claims 2019 AFP Pinnacle Award for excellence in treasury and finance

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Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, 03:59 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Hyundai Capital America (HCA) captured an honor this week, because as award organizers put it: “HCA saw the writing on the wall — a world with increased ride share, autonomous driving, electrification — and knew innovation was necessary or they ... [Read More]

Former Volkswagen Group of America exec joins dealer digital retailing startup

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Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, 03:57 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Former Mercedes-Benz Financial Services and AutoGravity executives Andy Hinrichs and Nick Stellman founded Digital Motors last year, striving to become an innovation leader in automotive retail and financial technology. Now Digital Motors is leveraging the expertise of Hinrich Woebcken, who ... [Read More]

PointPredictive launches Outsourced Fraud Mitigation Service

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Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, 03:11 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
A member of the inaugural Emerging 8 is continuing to roll out new solutions. PointPredictive recently launched what it called Outsourced Fraud Mitigation, a service that can help finance companies bolster their fraud defenses by leveraging PointPredictive’s fraud experts and ... [Read More]

ZestFinance & MeridianLink integrate, leveraging artificial intelligence & machine learning

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Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, 03:07 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
ZestFinance, a provider of credit software fueled by artificial intelligence (AI), announced its integration with MeridianLink, a multichannel loan and new account origination platform. According to a news release distributed last week, MeridianLink will be integrating Zest Automated Machine Learning ... [Read More]

AutoGravity offers flexible usage service of off-lease vehicles

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Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, 04:07 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
AutoGravity is leveraging its relationship with a trio of German automakers to deliver a consumer option for individuals near Los Angeles who do not want a lease or retail installment sales contract. On Tuesday, AutoGravity launched a flexible car usage ... [Read More]

LendingTree and RouteOne integrate to boost auto-finance offers to potential buyers

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Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, 04:05 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
On Tuesday, LendingTree announced an integration with RouteOne. With this development, LendingTree’s credit application functionality will integrate with RouteOne’s credit aggregation system to present indirect financing offers to consumers. The company highlighted the integration enhances LendingTree’s automotive product offering and ... [Read More]

Wells Fargo tops $1M in vehicle donations & financial mentoring to help veterans

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Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, 03:35 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Wells Fargo recently highlighted that one of its largest educational and philanthropic endeavors reached a new milestone, fueled in part by a 20 dealer groups and franchised stores. The bank’s initiative — in collaboration with Military Warriors Support Foundation’s Transportation4Heroes ... [Read More]

AG releases proposed regulations under California Consumer Privacy Act

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Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, 03:28 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Development of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) took another crucial step last week. California attorney general Xavier Becerra released proposed regulations under the CCPA that was signed into law last June. Officials say the law provides consumers with “groundbreaking” ... [Read More]
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