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Cutting keys & cutting costs during repossessions and recoveries
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:42 PM
Drawing standing-room-only attendance in the second-largest setting at Used Car Week 2025, Ryan Miller led a six-executive panel session that focused on one of the most complex challenges in all of repossessions and recoveries. Now available through this episode of ... Listen Here
Four experts on automotive & the economy
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:39 PM
Used Car Week 2025 again brought together experts who can explain which parts of the economy impact automotive most. This year’s event included views from Laura Wehunt of Black Book, Tim Gill of the American Financial Services Association, T.J. Cox ... Listen Here
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

IDS completes White Clarke Group acquisition, shifts Gleeson to new role

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Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2021, 03:55 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Acquisition closed and top executive shifted into a new role. Those are the two main developments to arrive via news releases from IDS and White Clarke Group on Tuesday and Wednesday. First, IDS — a provider of mission-critical enterprise solutions ... [Read More]

Darwin enhances digital retailing tool with ActivEngage chat integration

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Wednesday, May. 26, 2021, 03:28 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
One of this year’s Emerging 8 honorees updated one of its tools that generated some of the reasons why the firm earned the accolade. Darwin Automotive this week announced that the most recent update to its digital retailing application ensures ... [Read More]

Experian enters income & employment verification spaces with new solutions

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Wednesday, May. 26, 2021, 03:25 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Complications created by the pandemic made the job of underwriting departments even more challenging since that segment of finance companies is tasked with confirming a myriad of details to ensure quality paper flows into portfolios. To support the collective recovery ... [Read More]

Seventh Knight rolls out ransomware prevention tool powered by IBM

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Tuesday, May. 18, 2021, 08:58 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Perhaps what happened to the Colonial Pipeline has you thinking about if your finance company suddenly suffered a ransomware attack and how it might cripple your originations and collections. To help companies of all kinds, Seventh Knight recently developed an embedded ... [Read More]

ACH Network volume spikes 11.2% during record-setting Q1

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Tuesday, May. 18, 2021, 08:17 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
It delights auto-finance companies when their customers set up an ACH path for monthly payments. And providers likely are excited about that stream potentially growing since Nacha, which governs the ACH Network, saw total volume soar during the first quarter ... [Read More]

Point Predictive: Auto-finance fraud tops $7B in 2020

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Monday, May. 17, 2021, 02:21 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Point Predictive pinpointed a number in connection with one of the important topics being discussed this week during the Auto Intel Summit. According to the company’s Auto Fraud Report, Point Predictive said fraud reaching $7.3 billion of originations last year, ... [Read More]

DRIVRZ Financial & Roadster align to offer digital used-vehicle leasing experience

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Friday, May. 14, 2021, 03:54 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Easterns Automotive operates eight locations in Maryland and Virginia near Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and the group is one of the first dealerships to enjoy success stemming from the used-vehicle leasing tool put in motion by DRIVRZ Financial and Roadster. ... [Read More]

RouteOne promotes 2 of its longest-tenured executives

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Friday, May. 14, 2021, 03:44 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
This week, RouteOne announced two executive promotions; moves that are effective immediately. The company founded nearly two decades ago to improve the F&I process for dealers and their customers said Jeff Belanger now is RouteOne’s chief revenue officer and Amanda ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Leaders on formation & initial success of AFSA’s Diversity and Inclusion Working Group

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Wednesday, May. 12, 2021, 01:40 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
In April, the American Financial Services Association announced the official formation of its Diversity and Inclusion Working Group to enhance its efforts to foster a culture of diversity and inclusion within the financial services industry.   Prabir Chakrabarty, vice president ... [Read More]

NXCR welcomes new chief technology officer

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Tuesday, May. 11, 2021, 02:21 PM
Auto Fin Journal Staff
Last week, NXCR formed a strategic alliance J.D. Power. On Tuesday, the fintech and insurtech vehicle subscription platform named a new chief technology officer to leverage that relationship, as well as to be responsible for all platform technology and innovation, ... [Read More]
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