“Industry Expertise” is sponsored content produced by AFSA’s Business Partners’ to provide thought leadership and best practices for AFSA member companies. For more information about this sponsored content opportunity, contact Dan Bucherer.   As a trusted leader in tech-enabled solutions for finance and insurance products (F&I) in the automotive finance industry, F&I Sentinel actively monitors evolving […]

Join us on September 4, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. EST for an exclusive webinar exploring the forces redefining the captive finance industry. With growing pressure from digital-first disruptors, changing customer behaviors, and the shift to EVs and hybrids, the very foundations of auto finance are being challenged. This session will unpack the five major trends […]

This week, the CFPB proposed a rule to revise its supervisory authority over nonbank entities. Under the Dodd-Frank Act, the CFPB has authority to supervise companies it decides pose “risk” to consumers. However, the CFPB has never defined what “risk” is. The previous administration issued a rulemaking allowing it to make such designations public and used this […]

This week, AFSA sent comments regarding the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. The CDFI provides funding to certain eligible financial institutions.  The funding process requires funding recipients to report “material events,” including events that cause the recipient to lose funding eligibility. For our comment letter, we noted that the CDFI has included in its […]

“Industry Expertise” is sponsored content produced by AFSA’s Business Partners’ to provide thought leadership and best practices for AFSA member companies. For more information about this sponsored content opportunity, contact Dan Bucherer. NETSOL Welcomes Two Automotive Finance Powerhouses NETSOL Technologies (Nasdaq: NTWK) recently announced the appointments of two distinguished industry leaders to the company. Ian Smith, […]

Today, AFSA’s State Government Affairs team submitted a comment letter to the Puerto Rico Senate urging opposition to the interchange bill, SB 675. The bill aims to artificially limit interchange fees by excluding gratuities and sales tax from the fee calculation. AFSA warns this could disrupt the electronic payment system and force financial institutions to provide services for free. […]

In this episode of the AFSA Extra Credit Podcast, host Dan Bucherer chats with Joe Farley, Chief of Sales with DRN MVTRAC SCM & Damion English, Former Member of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Damion and Joe share their expertise on the importance of up-to-the-second information and double down on the idea that the information […]

The American Financial Services Association’s chief economist, Tim Gill, was pleased to sit down with U.S. News and World Report’s Tim Smart to discuss the latest news on the American economy and AFSA Member Companies’ economic outlook, as laid out in AFSA’s latest C3 Index, which was released earlier this week. The Index revealed a […]

President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) last week directing federal regulators to take actions to combat “politicized or unlawful debanking.” The EO, “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” states that financial institutions engage in practices that restrict individuals’ and business’ access to financial services due to their political or religious beliefs or activities, and that those with conservative […]

Last week, AFSA’s State Government Affairs team published its latest white paper, highlighting increasing attention on trigger lead legislation. The rise in these bills comes in response to growing concerns over third-party lenders using trigger leads to target consumers, often undercutting both the borrower experience and mortgage lenders’ business relationships. Federal efforts to amend the Fair Credit Reporting […]