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Arvest Bank sees early successes with FICO Auto Score 10
Arvest Bank — a regional, full-service lender with more than 200 locations throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri — recently upgraded to FICO Auto Score 10 in a move to give the institution a more precise view of borrower risk ... Read More
dealership employee COMMENTARY: The secret to accelerating funding in indirect auto lending
In the early 2000s, I sat at a dealership finance desk with a calculator, a stack of pay stubs, and a phone that wouldn’t stop ringing. I gathered stips by hand, calculated income line by line, and verified insurance, hoping ... Read More
Mercedes-Benz USA approves NETSOL as a digital retail provider for its dealerships
NETSOL Technologies recently highlighted Mercedes-Benz USA has approved NETSOL as a digital retail provider for Mercedes-Benz dealerships. This move opens the brand’s dealer network to Transcend Retail, NETSOL’s digital retail platform. The platform gives buyers a single, continuous purchase experience, ... Read More
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
SPONSORED EPISODE: What independent dealers need to be successful with Chris Vangellow of Frazer
In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Chris Vangellow, who is the Director of Product Management at Frazer, described what’s changed most about running an independent dealership over the past few years, especially from a technology perspective. ... Listen Here

Jolt Credit Union partners with Credit Union Leasing of America

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Credit Union Leasing of America (CULA) confirmed on Tuesday that it received a positive jolt to its portfolio of clients. CULA is now partnering with Jolt Credit Union, a Saginaw, Mich.-based credit union that manages more than $483 million in ... [Read More]

TD Auto Finance shines in JD Power Dealer Financing Satisfaction Study for seventh straight year

TD Bank brings donation total to $1M in response to Middle East conflict
Auto Fin Journal Staff
JD Power said that finalizing financing isn’t just about dealers and lenders collaborating on competitive rates. It’s also about how easy the lender makes the deal. And apparently TD Auto Finance does pretty well in that department since the division ... [Read More]

Edmunds & TransUnion with Q2 trade & financing trends connected to EVs & hybrids

Auto Fin Journal Staff
New data from Edmunds and TransUnion showed a wave of consumers who previously owned an electric vehicle — particularly a Tesla — are trading the EV for a hybrid model at a record pace. And they’re often taking on a ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Matt Babcock of Wolters Kluwer on how digital transformation continues to gain steam in auto financing

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Matt Babcock, who heads up digital lending product strategy for Wolters Kluwer, returned for another visit on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Wolter Kluwer recently released its latest quarterly Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index. Babcock recapped the sustained upward trajectory the ... [Read More]

Subaru outlines plans for own captive in both U.S. & Canada

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Just like the automaker touts its vehicles as being more than capable of allowing drivers to carve their own path to adventures, Subaru is starting new financing journeys in both the United States and Canada. Subaru Corp., Subaru of America ... [Read More]

RockED chosen as official industry certification partner for the National Loan Payoff Clearinghouse

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Automotive professionals seeking specific training connected with the modernization of loan payoffs, lien releases and title transparency workflows now have another option. Last week, the National Loan Payoff Clearinghouse (NLPC), powered by EPIC, announced that RockED has been named the ... [Read More]

Record positive trade equity of certain models helping to overcome some car-business headwinds

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Perhaps your July auto financing and retailing activity rounded out with some deals coming together via a trade that included positive equity. Those deals might have included some of the models that Edmunds highlighted recently that created a new record ... [Read More]

Launcher & Zest AI to expand lending capabilities via new partnership

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Artificial intelligence brought Launcher and Zest AI together this week. Their new partnership enables lenders using Launcher’s appTRAKER Loan Origination System to incorporate and automate decisioning based on Zest’s AI’s credit and fraud risk models in their existing underwriting workflow. ... [Read More]

Wolters Kluwer notices simultaneous improvements in credit availability & digital adoption

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Credit availability and digital adoption are running in the same upward direction, which is creating positives for dealerships and finance companies booking loans and lenders eventually using them in securitizations. Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions on Wednesday released its Q2 Auto ... [Read More]

Dealer Pay now a preferred vendor within The Shop by FordDirect

Auto Fin Journal Staff
Blue Oval dealerships now have another option for tools they use to collect payments from customers. Dealer Pay, driven by Vehlo, has been named a preferred vendor in The Shop by FordDirect, which is a curated marketplace of trusted dealership ... [Read More]

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