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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
Sponsored Episode: Winning Talent Strategies for Car Dealerships – with CDK & Industry Leaders
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, 10:00 AM
In this sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, host Bruce Johnson from CDK sits down with Tyler Jones, President of EV Auto, and Joe Brown, CMO at Frank Leta, to explore proven strategies for attracting and retaining top talent ... Listen Here
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

NIADA recaps another successful BHPH Dealer Forum

Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, 12:06 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Michele Somich certainly made the most of her time with the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association in the Music City this week. Somich, of The Car Store in Piney Flats, Tenn., received accolades from her dealer peers and won the ... [Read More]

COMMENTARY: Beyond the credit score & how holistic underwriting drives BHPH success

Title Twins gain more capability through West Virginia’s Clearinghouse
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, 02:42 PM
Tiger Okeley, Oak Motors
Not long ago, the buy-here, pay-here industry had a reputation for selling cars to anyone with a pulse. In those days, high-volume and low-selectivity lending practices meant loan approvals were nearly automatic. But rising inventory and account-servicing costs have made ... [Read More]

Kinetic Advantage celebrates fifth anniversary

Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, 02:01 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Kinetic Advantage provided a dealer floorplan for the first time on Nov. 5, 2020; a point when the pandemic seemingly impacted every part of the car business and beyond. It’s five years later and Kinetic Advantage not only remains in ... [Read More]

Car-Mart explains how $300M loan enhances capital structure ‘at a time of uncertainty in the market’

Campbell to succeed Williams as Car-Mart CEO
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, 11:47 AM
BHPH Report Staff
America’s Car-Mart closed the month with an important deal to solidify its long-term finances. On Thursday, the buy-here, pay-here dealership chain announced the closing of a new five-year, $300 million funded term loan facility provided by funds managed by Silver ... [Read More]

BHPH United & PrimaLend ‘part on good terms’

Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, 02:15 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Another side effect of PrimaLend filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week surfaced soon afterward. Along with being a floorplan provider, PrimaLend was a founding member of BHPH United, which is comprised of seven service providers that organize an annual ... [Read More]

Ignite & NIADA warn dealers about recent CFPB phishing scam

defi SOLUTIONS calls out ‘bluff’ of recent hacker threats
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, 02:14 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Both Ignite Consulting Partners and the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association warned dealerships about what they believe to be a phishing scam with fraudsters pretending to be from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In an industry message, Ignite Consulting Partners ... [Read More]

Details of tax season consulting groups specifically for BHPH & independent dealers

Details of upcoming repossession webinars from ARA & Weltman
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, 02:14 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Tax Max wants buy-here, pay-here and independent dealers to have clear strategy in place now through the close of federal and state filing seasons. So, the company announced new tax season consulting groups, which will gather each Tuesday via Zoom ... [Read More]
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