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How agentic AI is impacting collections
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, 02:21 PM
Agentic AI is among the slew of topics being bandied about this week at NADA Show 2026 in Las Vegas. The subject also was discussed during Used Car Week 2025 in the same city. Used Car Week Hall of Famer ... Listen Here
The real cost of inaction when it comes to transport fraud
Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, 03:30 PM
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More dialogue about current complexities of fleet management with David Prusinski of Vehicle Management Systems (VMS)
Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, 03:30 PM
A limited number of qualified maintenance technicians. A robust mix of gasoline-, diesel- and electric-fueled vehicles. There’s no shortage of challenges for fleet managers nowadays. To help wade through the environment with valuable perspectives, David Prusinski, who is CEO of ... Listen Here

Increases in bankruptcy filings reach 18 consecutive months

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Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, 12:46 PM
BHPH Report Staff
We’re now a year and a half into the upward march for bankruptcies. Reinforcing findings from the Consumer Stress Legal Index (CSLI) recently shared by LegalShield, data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy last week showed total bankruptcy filings jumped 17% year-over-year ... [Read More]

Car-Mart recaps most successful Holiday Toy Drive yet

Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, 10:45 AM
BHPH Report Staff
As America’s Car-Mart put it, “It’s quite a (toy) story.” The buy-here, pay-here dealership network celebrated the most successful effort for its annual Holiday Toy Drive, collecting 31,016 toys and delivering them to 31 children’s hospitals in the company’s 12-state ... [Read More]

Context around Top 10 locations with highest unemployment

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Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, 11:07 AM
BHPH Report Staff
FormRush distributed some intriguing unemployment analysis that might help buy-here, pay-here operators and special finance departments at other dealerships with their underwriting and collections efforts, especially in 10 locations. Susy Bento is the senior data scientist at FormRush, which provides ... [Read More]

COMMENTARY: Strategies for subprime market during challenging economic conditions applies to all

BHPH evolution: Key to success in a recovering auto industry
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, 12:38 PM
Tiger Okeley, Oak Motors
It’s a challenging time to be in the car market. A host of colliding economic factors have reduced new car production, limited dealer inventory and driven the cost of new and used vehicles to record highs. At the same time, ... [Read More]

IRS announces date for accepting 2023 tax returns

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Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, 12:54 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Jan. 29 will be an important day for buy-here, pay-here dealerships. The Internal Revenue Service announced on Monday that Jan. 29 is the official start date of the nation’s 2024 tax season when the agency will begin accepting and processing ... [Read More]

Experts put 18% annual rise in bankruptcies into context

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Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, 10:29 AM
BHPH Report Staff
Total 2023 bankruptcy filings increased 18% year-over-year, but Epiq AACER put that notable rise in context. According to data provided by Epiq AACER on Wednesday, total bankruptcy filings in 2023 came in at 445,186, which was up from the 2022 ... [Read More]

COMMENTARY: Recapping another year in BHPH

Details of upcoming repossession webinars from ARA & Weltman
Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, 03:07 PM
Gene Daughtry, AMS Consulting
Wow, another year ended, and a new one has started. Grandma always said life is like a roll of toilet paper; closer to the end the faster it goes! These years are about down to eight months now it seems. ... [Read More]

November bankruptcy filings soar 21% higher year-over-year

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Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, 10:18 AM
BHPH Report Staff
While one specific case triggered a triple-digit spike in commercial filings, individual bankruptcy filings jumped 21% year-over-year in November, according to data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy. Epiq reported total bankruptcy filings came in at 37,860 in November, up from 31,187 ... [Read More]

Byrider honors top franchise dealers for 2023

Byrider honors top franchise dealers for 2023
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, 10:38 AM
BHPH Report Staff
Byrider honored more than a dozen different operators when the buy-here, pay-here dealership chain presented annual awards to its franchise body during the company’s annual convention in Marco Island, Fla., last month. Byrider chief executive officer Craig Peters said, “These ... [Read More]

6 enhancements of cyclCRM from ABCoA

6 enhancements of cyclCRM from ABCoA
Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, 11:32 AM
BHPH Report Staff
Advanced Business Computers of America (ABCoA) unveiled six enhancements for cyclCRM, the technology company’s fully integrated customer relationship management (CRM) and loan origination software (LOS) with an instant funding portal (Capsa) that initially launched nearly 10 years ago. ABCoA highlighted ... [Read More]

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