This week, the American Financial Services Association (AFSA) and other industry trade associations met with staff from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to discuss the ongoing issue of illegal robocalls. AFSA supports the FCC’s efforts to stop illegal robocalls as outlined in AFSA’s recent comment letter to the FCC.
While the associations and the FCC agree on the necessity to reduce illegal automated calls, the associations are concerned about recent reports of erroneous blocking of legal calls that include important and time-sensitive communications. To address this issue, the associations are requesting that the FCC require phone carriers take additional steps to prevent the mislabeling of lawful calls. These steps include requiring carriers to give notice to businesses when a derogatory label is placed on an outbound call, offering a timely redress mechanism if a legal call has been erroneously blocked, and sharing information between carriers regarding phone numbers that have been mislabeled or erroneously blocked and providing such information to the FCC.
AFSA Meets with FCC on Call-blocking
Mar 04, 2020
This week, the American Financial Services Association (AFSA) and other industry trade associations met with staff from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to discuss the ongoing issue of illegal robocalls. AFSA supports the … Read the rest
AFSA Highlights Key Issues to Congressional Committee
Mar 02, 2020
Last week, the American Financial Services Association submitted its top three issue priorities to the House Appropriations Committee per its request.
- The Federal Communications Commission should draft a Telephone Consumer Protection
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AFSA Asks FCC, “Can You Hear Us Now?”
Feb 28, 2020
This week, the American Financial Services Association (AFSA) submitted a comment letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on its report on call blocking. AFSA wholeheartedly supports the FCC’s effort to stop illegal… Read the rest
Pentagon Gives the Troops a Win
Feb 27, 2020
The American Financial Services Association confirmed that the Department of Defense will publish in the Federal Register tomorrow a repeal of Question and Answer #2 of its 2017 Interpretive Rule for the Military Lending Act (MLA). The interpretive… Read the rest
RELEASE | DOD Grants Joint NADA/AFSA Petition to Withdraw Q&A 2 from 2017 MLA Interpretive Rule
Feb 27, 2020
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
NADA
Jared Allen, Vice President, Communications
o. 703.734.3957 m. 202.412.3881
jallen@nada.org
AFSA
Ed McFadden, Vice President, Communications
o. 202.776.7308 m. 202.402.5036
emcfadden@afsamail.org… Read the rest
Anthony Robles: Underdog to Undefeated
Feb 25, 2020
Born with one leg, 2011 NCAA Champion Anthony Robles became an unstoppable force in college wrestling. Now, Robles shares his strategy for success – harnessing a limitless belief in self and the motivation to accomplish what others… Read the rest
Polls Shouldn’t Drive Public Policy
Feb 24, 2020
The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) responded to the American Financial Services Association’s recent op-ed with one of their own. The CRL does not dispute the facts we laid out earlier this week related to the organization’s… Read the rest
So-called “Walkaway Loans” are Wrong, Not Prevalent
Feb 20, 2020
Last week The Wall Street Journal published a story on a scam it called “kicking the trade,” which some American Financial Services Association members are aware of as a “walkaway loan” or “stove piping.”… Read the rest
LISTEN | Ginger Herring on the Extra Credit Podcast
Feb 20, 2020
In this episode of the AFSA Extra Credit Podcast, we’re speaking Ginger Herring, President & CEO of 1st Franklin Financial Corp. Ginger is a third generation leader of 1st Franklin, which has been offering consumer credit … Read the rest