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Deeper dive into rising LTVs with TransUnion’s Satyan Merchant
One of the notable findings from TransUnion’s Q2 2026 Credit Industry Insights Report (CIIR) was how much loan-to-value ratios have changed in the past five years. Satyan Merchant, one of this year’s Automotive Intelligence Award recipients and senior vice president ... Listen Here
PayNearMe chief product officer John Minor on intersection of payments & technology
PayNearMe recently shared new search, explaining that hidden costs sustained by auto lenders can show up as failed payments, borrower support calls, late payments, collections follow-up, reconciliation work and manual recovery effort. PayNearMe chief product officer John Minor elaborated about ... Listen Here
Matt Babcock of Wolters Kluwer on how digital transformation continues to gain steam in auto financing
Matt Babcock, who heads up digital lending product strategy for Wolters Kluwer, returned for another visit on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Wolter Kluwer recently released its latest quarterly Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index. Babcock recapped the sustained upward trajectory the ... Listen Here

Ask the Hall of Famer: Underwriting and Poor Employees

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BHPH Report Staff
Q: What are three things you should accomplish before the end of the year? Julian says… I am going to give you a different approach: What’s one of the things that you need to do every three years? Think about ... [Read More]

Benefits of Structuring Loans with Irregular Payments

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Mike Downey and Chip Wiley
A common problem for many dealers is consumers not having enough money to put down on a vehicle.  This situation usually results in one of three ways: you accept less, you defer the down payment, or you don’t sell the ... [Read More]

Daughtry: 5 Thoughts as 2014 Quickly Winds Down

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Gene Daughtry, PLS Financial
Here we are — the holidays are upon us.  As usual, the IRS is warning of a delay in tax refunds. Everyone is stocking up on inventory, hoping for a grand tax season. Customers are not making preparations to deal ... [Read More]

Atcheson: Consider This Marketing Idea to Prepare for a Big 2015

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Kenny Atcheson, Dealer Profit Pros
While speaking to a group of business owners at an event, I asked the audience if anyone had an eight-track tape player. One person raised his hand.  (If you are too young to know what an eight-track tape is, substitute ... [Read More]

Price: How to Keep Skip-Tracing Skills Sharp in Today’s World

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Alex Price, MasterFiles
Since my retirement from active skip-tracing eight years ago, I now have the opportunity to sit back and observe the industry closely. Since I’ve taken on a teaching and training role, reaching a new generation of skip-tracers with MasterFiles, I ... [Read More]

Hackett: Will Buy-Here, Pay-Here Fall Like Rome?

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Rick Hackett, Hudson Cook
"Hard cases make bad law" is a maxim attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, an associate justice and acting chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court at the turn of the last century. The maxim suggests that cases with extreme facts ... [Read More]

7 Questions Dealers Should Ask Capital Providers

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Nick Zulovich, Editor
When Advantage Funding co-founder Ed Kaye makes a presentation to buy-here, pay-here dealers, he often begins with a list of seven questions for them to consider. Before going any further, Kaye recommends that operators stop finance companies from going any ... [Read More]

Credit Report Training Among Highlights of New NABD Conference

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Nick Zulovich, Editor
Recently an operator came to Ken Shilson and told the founder of the National Alliance of Buy-Here, Pay-Here dealers that he found an easy way to save money on every sale he made at his dealership. Immediately after Shilson applauded ... [Read More]

EXCLUSIVE: DriveTime Responds to $8M Fine From CFPB

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Nick Zulovich, Editor
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made its first enforcement action in the buy-here, pay-here space and handed out an $8 million penalty against one of the largest operations in the business — DriveTime Automotive Group. CFPB officials said late Wednesday ... [Read More]

PassTime Device Helps Authorities Arrest Suspect in High-Profile Abduction

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BHPH Report Staff
PassTime now has a stronger argument about the potential benefits of its GPS devices beyond the payment-increasing potential for buy-here, pay-here dealers and finance companies. A Philadelphia woman, whose abduction was caught on tape, has been rescued — and her ... [Read More]

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