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What might be next for Amazon Autos
Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, 03:52 PM
Cherokee Media Group’s Bill Zadeits hosted a fireside chat with Fan Jin, global leader of Amazon Autos, during Used Car Week 2025. Their wide-ranging conversation about the past, present and future of the online platform and its involvement with automakers ... Listen Here
Auto-finance leaders on growth, risk & recovery
Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, 03:07 PM
It’s a question any business must answer, but it’s especially important in auto finance. How do you balance growth and risk? A trio of industry executives — Mike Goins of TD Bank, Jeff Marsh of Millennium Capital and Recovery and ... Listen Here
Expectations for repossessions in the US & Canada with Purr’s Chris Schellenberger
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, 07:48 PM
Purr founder and CEO Chris Schellenberger opened Used Car Week 2025 on the Live Stage presented by SYCN Auto Logistics. Schellenberger, whose unique business model offers a retail consignment platform for repossessed vehicles, discussed what the repo industry could be ... Listen Here

FTC penalizes Texas BHPH operation over credit reporting

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Wednesday, Sep. 16, 2015, 06:38 PM
Nick Zulovich, Editor
Reporting consumer performance to a credit bureau certainly can boost a buy-here, pay-here dealership’s offerings to its customer base. But when the process isn’t completed properly, the mistakes can catch the attention of federal regulators, which happened to Texas-based Tricolor ... [Read More]

FTC: 7 deadly ad sins some BHPH dealers commit

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Monday, Sep. 14, 2015, 06:22 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Operators now have a clear guide on how to avoid getting into trouble with the Federal Trade Commission. Cindy Liebes, director of the FTC’s Southeast region, shared what she deemed to be the “seven deadly advertising sins” buy-here, pay-here dealers ... [Read More]

Commercial Chapter 11 bankruptcies rise for 2nd straight month

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Thursday, Sep. 10, 2015, 02:57 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Although total commercial Chapter 11 filings moved higher for the second month in a row, the American Bankruptcy Institute didn’t waffle from maintaining its projection of what the overall consumer and business filing total should be for the year. According ... [Read More]

7 leading legal minds to highlight NABD East Coast Conference

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Friday, Aug. 28, 2015, 08:20 PM
BHPH Report Staff
The National Alliance of Buy-Here, Pay-Here Dealers is bringing together seven of the most experienced, knowledgeable legal experts who have several decades of collective experience in the auto regulatory world for the 12th annual NABD East Coast Conference. The conference ... [Read More]

Top 10 missteps that could shut down a BHPH dealer

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Friday, Aug. 28, 2015, 01:40 PM
BHPH Report Staff
With the closing weekend of August upon us, Hudson Cook senior partner and chairman Tom Hudson shared his Top 10 list of practices buy-here, pay-here dealers need to recognize so they not only avoid a bad month, but the possibility ... [Read More]

Ongoing adjustments, adoption of GPS impacting Car-Mart charge-offs & losses

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Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015, 04:01 PM
Nick Zulovich, Editor
Perhaps the most recent quarterly performance by America’s Car-Mart shows that GPS technology cannot singlehandedly improve charge-offs and credit losses for buy-here, pay-here operators. During a quarter where retail sales and revenue improved, Car-Mart executives said they were “very disappointed” ... [Read More]

What CFPB electronic closings study means for auto finance

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Monday, Aug. 17, 2015, 08:00 PM
Steve Levine, SecureClose
Transparency. Education. Information. Repeat. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s pretty clear that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau expects consumers to receive these things from their financial service providers. Earlier this month, the CFPB once again demonstrated this ... [Read More]

J.D. Byrider opens 2nd Richmond franchise

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Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, 01:22 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Buy-here, pay-here dealership group J.D. Byrider announced this week it has opened its second franchise in Virginia’s capital of Richmond. This marks the sixth J.D. Byrider store in Virginia, and it is the second Virginia dealership for franchisee Craig Baker, ... [Read More]

Spots filling quickly for upcoming NABD Boot Camp

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Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, 07:00 PM
BHPH Report Staff
If you’re a relatively new operator who has never participated in a 20-group style meeting or a veteran dealer who is looking for a fresh collection of professionals to gather ideas, the National Alliance of Buy-Here, Pay-Here Dealers is hosting ... [Read More]

Car-Mart adjusts dealership addition plans by opening Georgia store

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Wednesday, Jul. 29, 2015, 06:48 PM
BHPH Report Staff
When America's Car-Mart closed its fiscal year back at the end of April, the buy-here, pay-here dealership chain initially expected to expand its footprint in Missouri. Instead, Car-Mart broadened its presence elsewhere in the Southeast this week with its seventh ... [Read More]
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