Last week, EFG Companies announced that Jay Hartmann has been promoted to chief operating officer, focusing on corporate scalability and cross-functional alignment as the company positions itself for future growth. As a 21-year EFG employee, the company highlighted Hartmann has ... [Read More]

Sometimes, even some of the most sophisticated technologies in auto finance need a tuneup. That’s what Cox Automotive has done with Dealertrack with a suite of new APIs, product enhancements, and integrations designed to help maximize contracting and funding efficiency ... [Read More]

On the heels of reaching profitability, Lease End launched its newest tool to help consumers avoid what experts call “dark patterns.” Lease End highlighted that Payoff Intelligence is an artificial intelligence agent designed to overcome one of the most persistent ... [Read More]

For years, blockchain has been discussed in automotive circles as a future technology — interesting, promising, but often framed as experimental or speculative. That framing is increasingly outdated. Blockchain is already operating in the automotive industry today. Not in consumer-facing ... [Read More]

Jose Galvan spent nearly 24 years at Market Scan Information Systems, including time as chief data officer for the company, which provides automotive pricing and incentive intelligence and was acquired by S&P Global Mobility nearly three years ago. This week, ... [Read More]

Last week, DriveCentric announced an enhanced integration with National Credit Center (NCC), and Dealer Pay formed a partnership with CrossCheck. On Monday, DriveCentric and Dealer Pay finalized their own relationship, so the CRM provider has a compliant payment collection tool ... [Read More]

Experian recently released its annual Future of Fraud Forecast, identifying five fraud trends expected to impact businesses and consumers the most in 2026. Experts highlighted this year’s forecast shows fraudsters are rapidly weaponizing technologies to launch attacks that are more ... [Read More]

Lease End, a platform designed for simplifying the vehicle lease buyout process, on Tuesday announced record-breaking results for 2025, which included revenue growing by 60% year-over-year and 1,559% since 2021. The company said it helped more than 19,000 lessees unlock ... [Read More]

Informativ, a provider of fraud prevention, compliance, credit, and payments technology for the automotive and consumer finance industries, on Tuesday announced that Dominic (Nick) Brignola has joined the company as chief financial officer. Most recently, Brignola was chief financial officer ... [Read More]

DriveCentric, a CRM provider for automotive dealerships, on Tuesday announced an enhanced integration with National Credit Center (NCC), an automotive credit and compliance platform. The expanded integration embeds key capabilities from NCC’s Complete Credit platform inside DriveCentric, giving dealerships complete ... [Read More]