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This Month's Focus
Turbocharged Finance
Mercedes-Benz USA approves NETSOL as a digital retail provider for its dealerships
Point Predictive deploys Predictor Agents using data from more than 650 lenders
Intellicheck & Agility Credit partner for multi-layered fraud prevention at dealerships
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
Used Car Week Hall of Fame: Grace Huang of Cox Automotive
We begin our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees with Grace Huang, president of Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions, who joins Cherokee Media Group’s Joe Overby for a conversation about her career journey, the value of ... Listen Here
Ben Sporn of VIP Automotive Group Takes DIY Approach to AI
Ben Sporn is the chief marketing officer of VIP Automotive Group on Long Island, N.Y. , where he runs operations and artificial intelligence projects at his family’s 10-store dealer group. He also has a tech background, having worked for Google ... Listen Here
Bain examines potential investment implications of record $3.7T in ‘dry powder’
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The investment world could generate quite an explosion with the amount of “dry powder” that’s available, according to Bain & Co. On Monday, the firm released its Private Equity Midyear Report 2023. Bain said that after four quarters of relative ... [Read More]
NETSOL Cloud Services gains AWS Lambda Service Delivery designation
Auto Fin Journal Staff
NETSOL Cloud Services, a provider of cloud-based solutions and a division of NETSOL Technologies, announced that it has been awarded the AWS Lambda Service Delivery designation by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company highlighted this recognition acknowledges NETSOL Cloud Services’ ... [Read More]
Car IQ continues relationship building; this time with Visa
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Car IQ is compiling quite a fleet of relationships to spread the use of its payment technology. The company on Wednesday teamed up with Visa to enable vehicles to transact directly with Visa’s global ecosystem of merchants and banks, and ... [Read More]
TransUnion study: Credit score not translating into strong consumer performance
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Experts said credit scores are generally higher nowadays, but outstanding portfolios aren’t necessarily reflecting a financial health often seen with contracts connected to higher points on the credit spectrum. A new TransUnion study determined that median credit scores — aided ... [Read More]
Solera leverages AI & ML for new browser-based insurance claim solution
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Sometimes, finance companies literally are doing damage control when vehicles in their outstanding portfolio are involved in crashes, weather events or other incidents. On Wednesday, Solera Global Corp launched Intelligent Triage, a web browser-based tool the company said can eliminate ... [Read More]
Wolters Kluwer names new EVP & GM for compliance solutions division
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions, a provider of risk management and regulatory compliance solutions and services to U.S. banks, credit unions, insurers and securities firms, recently named Vikram Savkar as its new executive vice president and general manager. In this role, ... [Read More]
Toyota expands branded insurance product into 3 more states
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Toyota now is up to a dozen states where its branded insurance product is available. On Monday, Toyota Auto Insurance began to make policies available in Colorado, Georgia and Oregon. Now, Toyota Auto Insurance customers in the Centennial State, the ... [Read More]
Asset-backed facility gives FINN a 100 percent debt-financed fleet
Auto Remarketing Staff
FINN, an auto subscription company based in Munich, Germany, and New York, has signed a 25 million euro ($27.2 million) asset-backed facility with Avellinia Capital. The facility complements FINN’s existing asset-backed securitization program, effectively increasing the advance rate from 95% ... [Read More]
Safe-Guard expands beyond F&I by acquiring Dealer Solutions and Design
Auto Fin Journal Staff
We’re only a few days into the second half of 2023, and the pace of mergers and acquisition continues to be strong. The latest one surfaced Thursday, as Safe-Guard Products International, a provider of branded protection products for the automotive, ... [Read More]
Wolters Kluwer industry survey shows where gaps remain for refined digital customer experience
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Wolters Kluwer recently shared the results from its latest industry survey it commissioned to better understand where automotive dealer and auto finance professionals are still finding barriers in adopting more digitized solutions for back-office documentation processing. Wolters Kluwer presented an ... [Read More]
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