Agora Data announced last week that it closed a $160 million private term financing on Aug. 11, marking the fourth privately placed term financing for the company that offers low-cost capital along with performance data and analytics for independent and ... [Read More]

In about a month, the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association will host its National Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. Along with meetings on Capitol Hill with lawmakers and their staffs, NIADA will host regulators and other experts for conversations and ... [Read More]

Consolidation appeared in the buy-here, pay-here industry on Tuesday. Buckeye Dealership Consulting announced the acquisition of Berkshire Risk Services in a merger bringing together two industry service providers committed to empowering dealers and finance companies with innovative risk management tools ... [Read More]

While softening sequentially, bankruptcy filings rose notably in July. According to data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy, total bankruptcy filings came in at 35,716 in July, representing a 15% increase from last July’s total of 30,862. Epiq reported individual bankruptcy filings ... [Read More]

As long-time integration partners, PassTime and Advanced Business Computers of America, Inc. (ABCoA) have worked together for decades to provide integrated solutions to their mutual customers in the buy-here, pay-here industry and other part of auto financing. On Wednesday, they ... [Read More]

U.S. Auto Sales closed its 31 dealerships in the Southeast in April, but the buy-here, pay-here operation is now facing a lawsuit in federal court brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). On Wednesday, the CFPB filed a lawsuit ... [Read More]

A recent tip of the week from Ignite Consulting Partners involved one of the potentially complicated parts of the buy-here, pay-here business: handling matters when consumers raise concerns about their credit history. The recommendations originated from the recently launched e-OSCAR ... [Read More]

Some operators consider their buy-here, pay-here dealerships to be “no-frills” businesses. That happens to be the moniker SVR Tracking gave its latest GPS tracking device. This week, the provider of asset management solutions for the automotive industry released SVR Repo, ... [Read More]

Buy-here, pay-here dealers might be seeing vehicle shoppers fresh off a bankruptcy filing if they haven’t already. According to data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy, there were 217,420 total bankruptcy filings during the first six months of 2023, representing a 17% ... [Read More]

One of Byrider’s franchisees started the second half of the year by expanding its footprint in Kentucky. Byrider announced this week that franchise ownership group Garber Ventures opened a location in Elizabethtown, Ky., representing Byrider’s seventh location in the Blue ... [Read More]