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Get to Know Bill Courtney – 2025 Independents Keynote
Feb 20, 2025
Join business leader, successful football and life coach, and Academy Award winner Bill Courtney for an insightful keynote session highlighting his career in building a successful global business and building up the next generation on … Read the rest
AFSA on Alaska Banking Laws
Feb 20, 2025
AFSA’s State Government Affairs team sent a comment letter to the Alaska Senate regarding Senate Bill 39 and banking laws. In the letter, AFSA expresses concern that if SB 39 is passed, it would essentially remove the only accessible and… Read the rest
Senate Budget Reconciliation
Feb 20, 2025
The U.S. Senate has begun budget reconciliation, a special legislative process used to quickly advance high-priority fiscal legislation. Created by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, reconciliation allows for expedited consideration… Read the rest
Credit Balances Hit Record High
Feb 14, 2025
In the fourth quarter of 2024 consumer credit balances topped $18 trillion for the first time, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, which draws on data from the bank’s Consumer… Read the rest
The Future of Dealer Commercial Lending: Transforming Challenges into Growth
Feb 12, 2025
In this episode of the AFSA Extra Credit Podcast, host Dan Bucherer chats with Brian Koprowski, CEO of DataScan, which works with finance companies on wholesale financing and inventory risk management across the entire loan lifecycle. See… Read the rest
A Nominee for CFPB Director
Feb 11, 2025
AFSA C3 Survey Coming This Week
Feb 10, 2025
Consumer finance companies’ assessments of the current and prospective business environment improved significantly in Fourth Quarter 2024 according to the results of AFSA’s latest Consumer Credit Conditions Index Survey (C3 Survey).… Read the rest
New Day, New CFPB Leadership
Feb 08, 2025
On Friday evening, a day after Russell Vought was confirmed as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, President Trump named him acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
AFSA congratulates Director Vought on… Read the rest
AFSA’s Response to CDFI
Feb 05, 2025
Yesterday, AFSA responded to the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund’s questions regarding the small dollar loan program (SDL) application. The SDL application prohibits companies that provide “high-rate loans” from… Read the rest
Request to Withdraw from FCRA Proposed Expansion
Feb 05, 2025
As part of AFSA work to bring our requests to the new acting director of the CFPB, Secretary Bessent, we signed a joint trades letter urge Secretary Bessent to withdraw the proposed rule expanding the scope of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)… Read the rest