Bankruptcy filing trends to begin 2016 mimicked the ones observers noticed as last year concluded. The American Bankruptcy Institute reported that total U.S. filings decreased 11 percent year-over-year in January. According to data provided by Epiq Systems, bankruptcy filings totaled ... [Read More]

The latest update from the Internal Revenue Service should calm concerns from buy-here, pay-here dealers looking for potential buyers to have income tax refund monies available for possible down payments or for current customers to get their contract out of the ... [Read More]

Here’s some good news for buy-here, pay-here operators who have interests in Wisconsin. PassTime, Hudson Cook and Minneapolis-based law firm Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren recently met with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) to discuss how GPS and payment ... [Read More]

On Jan. 21, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a law enforcement settlement that should cause dealers to take notice. The settlement, involving Herbies Auto Sales, a single-lot BHPH dealership in Colorado, is noteworthy for its attack on pricing and ... [Read More]

Quotepro, a provider of sales and payment technology for buy-here, pay-here dealers across the country, unveiled a payment kiosk that can accept cash, check, money order, debit card and credit card transactions. The company highlighted the kiosk can be used ... [Read More]

For the second time in two months, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau took out an enforcement action in the buy-here, pay-here industry. On Thursday, the enforcement came against Herbies Auto Sales, an operator in Greeley, Colo., for what the bureau ... [Read More]

Coming on the heels of another successful educational boot camp for new and veteran operators, the National Alliance of Buy-Here, Pay-Here Dealers has become an Authorized Education Provider for DBA International, the nonprofit trade association that represents more than 575 ... [Read More]

The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association made a major enhancement to the NIADA member services Web-based promotional platform. According to what NIADA officials indicated on Thursday, the enhancement not only can make it easier for the association's 15,000-plus members to ... [Read More]

If operators have been putting off their plans to participate in a BHPH Boot Camp hosted by the National Alliance of Buy-Here, Pay-Here Dealers, they might miss their opportunity completely. In a message to BHPH Report, NABD indicated its upcoming ... [Read More]

The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association became an even bigger organization on Friday as NIADA announced it has acquired the assets and operations of Sarasota, Fla.-based Leedom & Associates. Officials highlighted the transaction — which was concluded Monday — transfers ... [Read More]