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Dissecting evolving credit scores with Shams Blanc of FICO
Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, 03:34 PM
As much as auto-finance underwriting has become sophisticated, a potential starting point to determine if the applicant will be offered an installment contract is the credit score. Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, described the ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Famer Jerry Kroshus of Location Services
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, 04:19 PM
Next up on our podcast series with 2025 Used Car Week Hall of Fame inductees is a conversation with Jerry Kroshus, who is CEO of Location Services. Cherokee Media President Bill Zadeits talks with Kroshus about his career journey in ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Famer Kathy Ruble of Ally
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, 07:52 PM
Next up on our podcast series with 2025 Used Car Week Hall of Fame inductees, we catch up with Kathy Ruble, who is executive director of marketing, dealer financial services and communications at Ally. Ruble has been the longtime moderator ... Listen Here

COMMENTARY: Lessons of leadership during a crisis

Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, 01:58 PM
Steve Levine, Ignite Consulting Partners
Like everyone else, I’m watching the horrible news coming out of North Carolina with a heavy heart. The devastation and suffering will impact that area and those people enduring Hurricane Helene’s aftermath for years to come. These catastrophic events have ... [Read More]

Former DriveTime exec to become Car-Mart COO

Car-Mart expands via acquisition, reports fiscal Q2 performance
Tuesday, Sep. 24, 2024, 12:30 PM
BHPH Report Staff
America’s Car-Mart will have a new chief operating officer coming aboard on Oct. 7. According to an announcement made on Tuesday, Car-Mart has appointed Jamie Fischer as COO. Fischer will join the company that operates 149 dealerships and more than ... [Read More]

Empire hires former Agora Data executive as regional VP of sales

Tuesday, Sep. 24, 2024, 12:27 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Empire Indemnity Insurance Company Risk Retention Group appointed Justin Stokes as its new regional vice president of sales. Based in Frisco, Texas, Empire said on Tuesday that Stokes brings two decades of experience in automotive finance and management with a ... [Read More]

4 ways to improve relationships with repeat customers

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Thursday, Sep. 19, 2024, 10:26 AM
BHPH Report Staff
Big Time Advertising founder and CEO Terry MacCauley offered a variety of suggestions to help buy-here, pay-here and independent dealers secure an important resource to maintain profitability and success — repeat customers. “Retaining customers is more cost-effective than acquiring new ... [Read More]

Buckeye Dealership Consulting welcomes 2 more professionals, including new COO

Thursday, Sep. 12, 2024, 02:29 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Buckeye Dealership Consulting reinforced its management team again this week, hiring a chief operating officer and new business development manager. Coming aboard as COO of the provider of reinsurable products for dealers and finance companies is James O’Connell, who will ... [Read More]

6 Byrider franchisees buy assets from Altamont Capital Partners

Thursday, Sep. 12, 2024, 02:17 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Dealers make deals every day, but this one in the buy-here, pay-here segment is more than just stretching a nickel or two on a trade. Byrider announced on Thursday that an investor group of Byrider franchisees has acquired the assets ... [Read More]

Tricolor boosts recon capacity with Arizona facility

Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2024, 10:43 AM
BHPH Report Staff
Carvana has generated industry buzz in recent weeks with its “Megasites” in Houston and Kansas City, Mo., that are designed for high volumes of vehicle reconditioning. Tricolor is implementing a similar strategy, as the retailer focused on addressing the needs ... [Read More]

Bankruptcies stay on established track in August

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Thursday, Sep. 5, 2024, 10:30 AM
BHPH Report Staff
Not much change on the bankruptcy front. Filings continued to climb with experts pointing to some of the same reasons mentioned previously for why they’ll keep rising as the year goes along. According to data provided by Epiq AACER, total ... [Read More]

Ignite: ‘Slow summer’ can be compounded by not addressing compliance risk

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Tuesday, Sep. 3, 2024, 10:20 AM
BHPH Report Staff
Summer unofficially ended over the weekend with the passing of Labor Day. For weeks during the heat of summer, Ignite Consulting Partners said the firm’s experts have heard plenty of reasons why dealerships aren’t keeping resources in place to maintain ... [Read More]

3 sample responses to overcome concerns about buying now

Advent Resources
Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, 12:24 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Big Time Advertising founder, president and CEO Terry MacCauley acknowledged your potential buyers might be hesitant to take delivery nowadays. MacCauley said those individuals might be wary about the general economy, uneasy about the upcoming election, or stretched thin because ... [Read More]
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