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Cutting keys & cutting costs during repossessions and recoveries
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:42 PM
Drawing standing-room-only attendance in the second-largest setting at Used Car Week 2025, Ryan Miller led a six-executive panel session that focused on one of the most complex challenges in all of repossessions and recoveries. Now available through this episode of ... Listen Here
Four experts on automotive & the economy
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:39 PM
Used Car Week 2025 again brought together experts who can explain which parts of the economy impact automotive most. This year’s event included views from Laura Wehunt of Black Book, Tim Gill of the American Financial Services Association, T.J. Cox ... Listen Here
Sponsored Episode: Winning Trade-Ins and Trust – Navigating Today’s Affordability Challenges
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 03:15 PM
Affordability challenges are reshaping the automotive landscape—vehicle prices and payments are at all-time highs and negative equity is on the rise. In this episode, Micah Tindor offers a data-driven conversation with real-world strategies around acquisition tactics and long-term profitability to ... Listen Here

3 tips for credit reporting during natural disasters

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Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, 02:42 PM
BHPH Report Staff
As reports continue to arrive stemming from the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in Texas and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, Ignite Consulting Partners gave buy-here, pay-here dealers and other auto finance providers three reminders associated with credit reporting for ... [Read More]

2 ways tighter credit helped Car-Mart

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Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, 02:33 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Along with elaborating a bit about his upcoming retirement, America’s Car-Mart chief executive officer William “Hank” Henderson described how underwriting tightening in other areas of the auto-finance market is benefitting the chain of buy-here, pay-here dealerships. The market change is ... [Read More]

Henderson stepping away as Car-Mart’s CEO at year’s end

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Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, 03:47 PM
BHPH Report Staff
While sharing results from the first quarter of its 2018 fiscal year, America’s Car-Mart announced a major change in leadership will be coming at the end of the calendar year. Car-Mart said in a news release posted late on Thursday ... [Read More]

Advice for identifying risk as you build your portfolio

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Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, 06:45 PM
Greg Shelton and Maria Singson, Contributors
In the current issue of BHPH Report, we discussed what we classified as the “eight risk questions that might keep you up at night.” We spelled out each of those questions here. Well, now let’s try to provide you some ... [Read More]

Costs trigger 8% drop in July bankruptcy filings

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Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017, 02:04 PM
BHPH Report Staff
It appears some consumers not only are struggling to maintain monthly payments, but they are also lacking the resources to file for bankruptcy. The American Bankruptcy Institute indicated total U.S. bankruptcy filings decreased 8 percent in July as compared to ... [Read More]

Kentucky AG outlines $1.1M dealer lawsuit

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Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, 02:15 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Potential problems with vehicle documentation and state tax collection could cost a Kentucky dealership more than $1.1 million in restitution. Kentucky attorney general Andy Beshear filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in Fayette Circuit Court against The United Group, which operates ... [Read More]

5 findings from FactorTrust’s latest auto index

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Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, 03:11 PM
BHPH Report Staff
On Tuesday, FactorTrust released the most recent research findings in its series of underbanked indices, the Underbanked Index – Auto, which is designed to provide insights into the earning and living trends of credit-challenged consumers seeking a vehicle. Such insights ... [Read More]

Levine: What’s all this fuss about arbitration?

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Thursday, Jul. 27, 2017, 05:59 PM
Steve Levine, Ignite Consulting Partners
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new arbitration rule has gotten a lot of coverage lately and deservedly so.  If and when it goes into effect, it will ban class action waivers and bring about some other notable changes. The big ... [Read More]

AGORA’s mission to revolutionize bulk purchasing

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Monday, Jul. 24, 2017, 06:36 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
Steve Burke spent more than three decades making bulk portfolio purchases during his career that includes leadership positions with Center Street Finance, SFG Finance, Regional Acceptance and FSB Financial. Burke highlighted how technology changed the auto finance business with solutions ... [Read More]

First Choice Car Care rolls out high-mileage VSC program

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Thursday, Jul. 20, 2017, 07:22 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Here’s another way to generate revenue at your buy-here, pay-here operation with the units that might have some of the highest odometer readings in your inventory. First Choice Car Care recently announced its five-year, 100,000-mile vehicle service contract (VSC) plans ... [Read More]
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