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
Wolters Kluwer on significance of digital securitizations by credit unions
Matthew Babcock, who oversees digital lending product strategy for Wolters Kluwer, returned as a guest on the Auto Remarketing Podcast, recapping the recent milestone associated with credit unions and securitizations. Babcock also touched on the proliferation of AI agents and ... Listen Here
Next Ron Smith Lifetime Achievement Award recipient: Kyle Birch of GM Financial
For the first time since 2022, Auto Remarketing and Cherokee Media Group are giving their Ron Smith Lifetime Achievement Award; an honor reserved especially for executives who have made one of the most significant impacts on the used-car industry. During ... Listen Here
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
AuditBoard report identifies key pressures facing audits, explores role and opportunity of AI
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Artificial intelligence and audits are coming together in ways that are making things challenging for financial professionals. That’s the gist of findings of the 2026 Focus on the Future report released on Wednesday by AuditBoard, a leading AI-powered global platform ... [Read More]
Brothers & former Fusion Auto Finance execs launch leasing platform for credit unions
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Brothers Chuck and Danny Meagher, who previously served as executives at Fusion Auto Finance, on Wednesday brought their tech-driven, 100% residual value-guaranteed leasing platform to market, specifically targeting credit unions. The siblings said Heritage Auto Leasing combines deep automotive leasing ... [Read More]
2025 Auto Finance Executive of the Year: Mary Leigh Phillips of Bridgecrest
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Mary Leigh Phillips is in a nearly constant state of learning. From colleagues. From customers. From family. And as a result, the chief executive officer of Bridgecrest has built a successful career for which she is being honored as Cherokee ... [Read More]
Allied Solutions stays in investment mode with commitment to TecAssured
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Allied Solutions is certainly in investment mode. Less than three weeks after committing a “major” investment in PortX, a leading AI-powered integration and data platform, one of the presenting sponsors of Used Car Week and provider of insurance, financial services, ... [Read More]
New eLEND Solutions report highlights $4.7B financing opportunity for dealers
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Imagine you’re this close to getting a car deal completed. Then, the potential buyer rears back and exclaims, “Wait! My monthly payment is going to be HOW much?” The scene is why findings from a new report by eLEND Solutions ... [Read More]
IDScan.net & GOLDPoint Systems partner to reinforce ID verification
Auto Fin Journal Staff
IDScan.net and GOLDPoint Systems are now working together. The provider of adaptive artificial intelligence-based identity verification and document authentication on Tuesday announced a new partnership with the provider of loan origination, loan servicing, and loan securitization software. The integration leverages ... [Read More]
FM Capital, Automotive Ventures among investors fueling EPIC’s Series A funding
Auto Fin Journal Staff
EPIC gained an amount of funding that might prompt someone to say that’s “epic.” The financial technology company wanting to transform how the automotive industry manages the loan payoff and title release process announced on Tuesday it has raised $10 ... [Read More]
Car IQ Pay broadens merchant network through partnership with EG America
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Car IQ, a provider of vehicle-based payment technology, announced on Wednesday that Car IQ Pay is now accepted at more than 1,400 EG America fueling locations nationwide, including Cumberland Farms and nine other convenience store brands. This partnership expands Car ... [Read More]
PODCAST: Insight into Q3 Wolters Kluwer Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index
Nick Zulovich
Onward and upward. Those two words could summarize analysis by Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions for its Q3 Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index. Wolters Kluwer said adoption of digital workflows in auto finance continued to track closely with broader market activity ... [Read More]
One & Copart collaborate to expedite lienholder payments for total-loss vehicle claims
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Collaboration is developing again in connection with payments where auto finance and car insurance intersect. Last week, One Inc., a leading digital payments network for the insurance industry, today announced a collaboration with Copart to integrate One’s ClaimsPay platform with ... [Read More]
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