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
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
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
CULA survey highlights credit unions’ concerns about terms & LTVs
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Stretching terms concern credit unions when building their used-vehicle portfolios, but those auto finance providers don’t appear to be eliminating that practice any time soon. Over-extension on used-vehicle installment contracts is the No. 1 concern for credit unions in the ... [Read More]
Origence & Eltropy enhance partnership to help credit unions improve originations
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Origence and Eltropy said this week that they are expanding their partnership to deliver an enhanced origination experience. The technology solutions provider for credit unions and the digital communications platform for community financial institutions (CFIs) said they’re broadening their partnership ... [Read More]
iLending promotes Goraczkowski to be president
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Last week, iLending promoted Nick Goraczkowski to be president after serving the auto refinance company as senior vice president and chief revenue officer for more than a decade. Goraczkowski takes over for Tom Holgate, who served as company president for ... [Read More]
Volvo Car Financial Services & Polestar Spaces now leverage Dealertrack
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Volvo retailers and Polestar Spaces now can take advantage of Dealertrack digital contracting across all lease and retail contracts through Volvo Car Financial Services (VCFS) and Polestar Financial Services (PFS). Dealertrack highlighted that connecting Volvo retailers and Polestar Spaces with ... [Read More]
How pandemic eroded finance company loyalty
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The pandemic apparently created another health impact; this time on auto financing. Analysis by S&P Global Mobility and TransUnion revealed loyalty to automotive finance institutions eroded significantly during the pandemic whether customers were leasing or buying vehicles. Across new-vehicle leasing ... [Read More]
Informativ partners with AutoFi to streamline credit compliance checks
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Informativ finalized a partnership with AutoFi this week with the goal being to save dealers time and potential errors. The companies are looking to accomplish this objective by pushing all the necessary information from the AutoFi credit application into the ... [Read More]
Experian releases 2023 U.S. Identity and Fraud Report
Auto Fin Journal Staff
It’s likely your auto finance applicants and current customers are wary about fraud. The 2023 U.S. Identity and Fraud Report from Experian showed more than half of consumers feel they’re more of a target for fraud than a year ago. ... [Read More]
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]
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