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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

2020 bankruptcy filings sink to lowest level in 34 years

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Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, 04:09 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Of all the financial turbulence created by the pandemic, a record-setting number of bankruptcies was not among the unprecedented developments. In fact, according to data shared by the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) and Epiq, last year generated the fewest filings ... [Read More]

CARite expands in 2 states to lift group size to 26 stores

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Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, 07:34 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Credit Acceptance founder Don Foss created his own dealership group 10 years ago. And now a decade later, that operation — CARite — has 26 locations with the two newest ones coming into the group this week. According to a ... [Read More]

Agora Data calls crowdsourced auto securitization a ‘quantum leap’ for BHPH dealers

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Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, 07:32 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Sometimes, too many cooks in the kitchen can be a recipe for disaster. But Agora Data championed a financial dish with several buy-here, pay-here operators and smaller finance companies that the tech firm says “represents a quantum leap” for their ... [Read More]

Car-Mart expands in Oklahoma, increases line of credit

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Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, 04:38 PM
BHPH Report Staff
America’s Car-Mart made a pair of moves before 2020 finished as the chain of buy-here pay-here dealerships expanded its footprint in Oklahoma while also increasing its revolving line of credit. Car-Mart now has 151 dealerships in its network after bringing ... [Read More]

PassTime & Polte partner to leverage cloud & 5G technology for asset tracking

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Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, 04:36 PM
BHPH Report Staff
PassTime GPS recently formed a strategic partnership with Polte Corp., in an effort to reinforce its service so dealerships and finance companies can track the location of their collateral more effectively. Fueled by cloud location over cellular (C-LoC) technology, the ... [Read More]

Tricolor adds 2 more members to board

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Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, 04:06 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Tricolor, the used-vehicle retailer focused on Hispanic customers, recently added to leaders to its board of directors to help it to capitalize on consumer demand for its products and the appeal of its unique mission-driven, risk scoring platform powered by ... [Read More]

Indianapolis Business Journal honors Byrider CFO

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Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, 04:03 PM
BHPH Report Staff
The Indianapolis Business Journal named Byrider’s Steve Mark as one of the publication’s Chief Financial Officer of the Year honorees this week, recognizing individuals who have demonstrated outstanding performance as financial leaders of their organizations. During his time at Byrider ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Lessons learned by BHPH operators during pandemic

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Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, 04:01 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Buy-here, pay-here dealership expert and senior consultant for AMS Consulting Gene Daughtry returns for another podcast episode to share some of the most valuable lessons he and independent operators learned during the pandemic. Daughtry also has a handful of suggestions ... [Read More]

Annual bankruptcy filings on pace for lowest volume in 14 years

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Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, 04:49 PM
BHPH Report Staff
The American Bankruptcy Institute said filings are on pace for the lowest annual total since 2006, the year after the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 went into effect and placed new requirements on filers. But ABI ... [Read More]

Car-Mart unveils refreshed branding & tagline

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Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, 04:25 PM
BHPH Report Staff
This week, America’s Car-Mart rolled out its new visual identity and tagline that the publicly traded buy-here, pay-here dealership company said will reaffirm its “unwavering commitment to its customers and communities.” Car-Mart’s new tagline is “Keeping You on the Road,” ... [Read More]
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