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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

Dealers leverage Solera Auto Finance’s rewards to trim DMS costs

Solera booth at NADA_0_0
Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, 04:51 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
According to a news release a pair of independent dealerships in the Southeast are among the stores already seeing the advantages of using Solera Auto Finance (SAF) after receiving rebate checks as part of the finance company’s rewards program. Drive ... [Read More]

Blinker lands capital raise & licensing agreement from Flagship Credit Acceptance

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Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, 04:49 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Blinker and Flagship Credit Acceptance now are collaborating to leverage their collective resources to gain more share within auto financing. The automotive e-commerce technology and services company and auto-finance provider managed by funds controlled by Perella Weinberg Partners Capital Management ... [Read More]

Executive with roots in SC to lead iLending’s growing office

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Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, 02:56 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Refinancing firm iLending recently announced that Jason Oswald has been named director of sales at the company’s office in Columbia, S.C. In this role, Oswald will be responsible for all sales functions for the company’s growing office in South Carolina’s ... [Read More]

Origence & Informed.IQ partner to speed funding for credit unions and dealers

artificial intelligence
Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, 02:54 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Origence is amid a string of records associated with auto financing and credit unions, and it appears the company wants to remain on that path through leveraging a partnership with Informed.IQ, a provider of artificial intelligence-based software to financial institutions ... [Read More]

Wolters Kluwer industry survey gauges availability & usage of digital back-office resources

cloud computing
Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, 02:51 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Arriving soon after the second quarter reading of its Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index, Wolters Kluwer announced results from an industry survey it commissioned to better understand how many automotive professionals are leveraging digital back-office resources and processes. Wolters Kluwer ... [Read More]

Automotive Market Data sees Upstart as fastest-growing software provider in Q2

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Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2022, 03:57 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Upstart is making great strides in growing its client base, according to data released by Automotive Market Data. The company has been named the fastest growing auto retail software in the U.S. for Q2 2022, From April to June, nearly ... [Read More]

Origence continues record-setting pace with credit unions & auto financing

CUDL booth at NADA Show 2022_0
Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2022, 03:55 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Origence is on quite a record-setting streak. After establishing new marks in 2021 and during the first quarter of this year, the CU Direct brand announced last week that it had delivered a record amount in credit union auto financing ... [Read More]

Equifax reinforces fraud tools with definitive agreement to acquire Midigator

defi SOLUTIONS calls out ‘bluff’ of recent hacker threats
Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2022, 03:51 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
The impact fraud is having on auto finance and other segments of financial services isn’t diminishing, so Equifax is reinforcing its resources to combat it. Equifax said this week it is expanding its global footprint in digital identity and fraud ... [Read More]

ACI Worldwide & IR enrich 20-year partnership to monitor transactions

data privacy
Monday, Jul. 25, 2022, 03:36 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Last week, ACI Worldwide and IR extended their partnership to include enriched end-to-end enterprise transaction monitoring Part of the ACI Enterprise Payments Platform, ACI Payments Monitoring powered by IR Transact can give banks and financial institutions visibility into the health ... [Read More]

New Wolters Kluwer index tracks ongoing digitization

Wolters Kluwer chart for web
Friday, Jul. 22, 2022, 02:30 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Perhaps the digitization of vehicle financing and retailing really is gaining significant momentum. This week, Wolters Kluwer, a global leader in professional information, software solutions and services, announced second quarter results and analysis from its Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index, ... [Read More]
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