Before a state or federal regulator knocks on your door or delivers a message to your inbox, Ignite Consulting Partners wants your shop to be prepared. The firm, which advises finance companies, dealers and other lenders on compliance, cybersecurity, process ... [Read More]

Make it five integrations with dealership management systems for AGORA. Within a week of announcing a relationship with Auto Master Systems, AGORA finalized its relationships with AutoManager, a dealer software development company located in southern California that offers three principal ... [Read More]

America’s Car-Mart expanded its network of buy-here, pay-here dealerships, according to an announcement distributed on Tuesday. The company said it reopened a store located in Tyler, Texas, lifting its total dealership count to 144. Car-Mart now has 13 dealerships in ... [Read More]

Frazer, Wayne Reaves, DealerCenter and now Auto Master Systems (AMS). All of those dealer management systems (DMS) now have an integration with AGORA, a Texas-based provider of technology solutions for the financial services industry. Through the integration with AGORA finalized ... [Read More]

During a podcast recorded during the Vehicle Finance Conference hosted by the American Financial Services Association, Nick shared another conversation with Jennifer Reid, the vice president of automotive strategy and marketing at Equifax Automotive Services. Reid revisited strategic recommendations to ... [Read More]

A technology expert who has held top roles at Santander Consumer USA and Capital One now is a part of Tricolor, one of the largest used-vehicle retailers focusing on the sale and financing of vehicles to Hispanic consumers, This week, ... [Read More]

Bankruptcy filings jumped on both a year-over-year and month-over-month basis to begin 2019. According to data provided by Epiq Systems, the American Bankruptcy Institute reported that U.S. bankruptcy filings increased 11 percent in January from December. Officials said bankruptcy filings ... [Read More]

The most recent changes to the federal tax code certainly generated plenty of attention. But Steven Carstens — a partner at Shilson, Goldberg, Cheung & Associates, which is an accounting firm that specializes in the buy-here, pay-here industry — thinks the windfall ... [Read More]

NIADA’s executive committee dramatically changed to begin the second month of the year. Late on Friday afternoon, the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association said it received an official notice of resignation from its president, Andy Gabler, dated Thursday, effective immediately. ... [Read More]

Now that the government shutdown has been halted until at least Feb. 15, the Internal Revenue Service announced on Monday that it successfully opened the 2019 tax-filing season as the agency started accepting and processing federal tax returns for tax ... [Read More]