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DigniFi names chief product officer
DigniFi announced the appointment of Jefim Piekarz as chief product officer on Tuesday. The fintech company specializing in access to automobile, powersports and RV repair financing said Piekarz will lead DigniFi’s product and engineering teams, advancing product strategy, technology development, ... Read More
Maritczak brings experience from EY & Ally to PCMI
PCMI continued to revamp its executive team on Tuesday. The provider of lender compliance technology and F&I administration software added Alex Maritczak as senior director of business development, bringing more than 30 years of automotive finance and financial services experience ... Read More
Latest two moves by US Bank have dealers & OEMs in mind
U.S. Bank made a pair of moves last week geared to boost its position in automotive with dealerships and OEMs. First, U.S. Bank said it is launching redesigned BMW, MINI and BMW Motorrad Mastercard credit card products that offer cardholders ... Read More
SPONSORED EPISODE: What independent dealers need to be successful with Chris Vangellow of Frazer
In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Chris Vangellow, who is the Director of Product Management at Frazer, described what’s changed most about running an independent dealership over the past few years, especially from a technology perspective. ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Fame: Grace Huang of Cox Automotive
We begin our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees with Grace Huang, president of Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions, who joins Cherokee Media Group’s Joe Overby for a conversation about her career journey, the value of ... Listen Here
Ben Sporn of VIP Automotive Group Takes DIY Approach to AI
Ben Sporn is the chief marketing officer of VIP Automotive Group on Long Island, N.Y. , where he runs operations and artificial intelligence projects at his family’s 10-store dealer group. He also has a tech background, having worked for Google ... Listen Here

It’s unanimous: Attendees rave about NABD’s fall conference

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BHPH Report Staff
From Kansas to Georgia to across the Atlantic Ocean over to England, attendees evidently received what they wanted when the National Alliance of Buy-Here, Pay-Here Dealers hosted its Best Practices Conference in Orlando, Fla., at the beginning of this month. ... [Read More]

AuctionACCESS adds Vehicle Acceptance to floor-plan platform

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BHPH Report Staff
AutoTec announced on Tuesday that Vehicle Acceptance Corp. (VAC) is now integrated with the AuctionACCESS floor plan platform. This integration will enable VAC to automate the transmission of updated credit availability and flooring request messages at AuctionACCESS subscribing auctions. VAC ... [Read More]

PassTime unveils LTE Category 1 Device on the Verizon Wireless network

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BHPH Report Staff
PassTime recently launched what the wireless GPS telematics products provider called Elite 5, an LTE Category 1-based telematics device serving consumer, dealership, fleet and specialized finance company markets. The company highlighted The Elite 5 is the first LTE Category 1-based ... [Read More]

Answer Financial & Verifacto partner to help BHPH customers retain vehicle insurance

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BHPH Report Staff
Answer Financial formed a partnership with Verifacto this week in an effort to help buy-here, pay-here dealers monitor whether their contract holders are keeping vehicle insurance policies current. The companies highlighted Verifacto’s technology is designed to improve the way lienholders ... [Read More]

Dealer Assist Now becomes NIADA National Member Benefit Partner

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BHPH Report Staff
Dealer Assist Now recently joined with the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association as its latest National Member Benefit partner, offering handwritten custom vehicle comments to the association’s independent and NIADA Certified Pre-Owned dealers. NIADA members who sign up for Dealer ... [Read More]

2 major developments since last NABD conference

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Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
It was just a little more than four months ago that the National Alliance of Buy-Here, Pay-Here Dealers hosted its annual convention in Las Vegas. However, Ken Shilson emphasized that two significant developments have happened since NABD gathered ahead of ... [Read More]

Q3 bankruptcy filings drop 6%

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BHPH Report Staff
The American Bankruptcy Institute reported that total filings fell 6 percent during the first nine months of this year compared to the figure generated through the first three quarters of last year. According to data provided by Epiq Systems, there ... [Read More]

Discounts set to expire for NABD’s fall conference

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BHPH Report Staff
Buy-here, pay-here operators who need recommendations on improving deal jacket compliance, securing more money from customers’ tax refunds and details of a significant accounting change — and who want all of this information for a discounted price — need to ... [Read More]

NABD hosting free webinar about changes to credit-loss measurement standards

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BHPH Report Staff
Ken Shilson called it one of the “most significant accounting changes buy-here, pay-here operators will ever encounter.” The founder of the National Alliance of Buy-Here, Pay-Here Dealers referenced how the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants passed new credit loss measurement ... [Read More]

More than 175 dealers participate in NIADA’s Capitol Hill meetings

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BHPH Report Staff
The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association highlighted how its members continued to expand their already considerable presence in Washington D.C., coming in record numbers to last week’s National Leadership Conference and Legislative Summit. NIADA reported that more than 175 dealers ... [Read More]

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