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Women’s History Month | Valerie Tolhurst
Mar 14, 2024

AFSA is celebrating Women’s History Month by featuring outstanding female leaders in the consumer credit industry. What has been the most important lesson? As a Human Resources professional, the biggest lesson I learned was to learn all I can about the business and how it runs operationally and financially. Being financially literate, being able to […]

Women’s History Month | Meg Michiels
Mar 13, 2024

AFSA is celebrating Women’s History Month by featuring outstanding female leaders in the consumer credit industry. I sincerely appreciate AFSA Women’s Leadership Council celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD) and Women’s History Month (WHM). I currently Co-Chair the Citi Women’s Network Chapter in the Washington, DC Area, and as we have worked on aligned initiatives this […]

PayNearMe Introduces Smart Switch™ to Enable Card Processing Redundancy for Lenders
Mar 12, 2024

Every minute of downtime lenders experience is expensive—leading to missed payments, high customer service costs and reputational risks. By connecting lenders to multiple merchant processors through a single platform integration, PayNearMe’s SmartSwitch™ facilitates maximum uptime and reliability. The current industry standard for payments platform providers that serve lenders is to connect clients to a single merchant […]

Women’s History Month | Ronda Cepeda
Mar 12, 2024

AFSA is celebrating Women’s History Month by featuring outstanding female leaders in the consumer credit industry. What has been the most important lesson?  Embracing my uniqueness. As a woman, it’s essential to recognize and celebrate the qualities that make you stand out. Use those to break barriers fearlessly. Throughout my career, I’ve realized that the path […]

Women’s History Month | Yordanka Martin
Mar 12, 2024

AFSA is celebrating Women’s History Month by featuring outstanding female leaders in the consumer credit industry. What do you wish you of today could have told the younger you about building a career? I wish I could tell my younger self to focus more on building relationships and understanding how leaders make hard decisions. Early […]

Women’s History Month | Suzi Straffon
Mar 08, 2024

AFSA is celebrating Women’s History Month by featuring outstanding female leaders in the consumer credit industry.  What has been the most important lesson?  Keep going and continue to work hard. You never know what’s around the next corner! Some of my hardest days were followed by some of the best. If I had given up, […]

Women’s History Month | Bethany Slomski-Rangel
Mar 08, 2024

AFSA is celebrating Women’s History Month by featuring outstanding female leaders in the consumer credit industry. What has been the most important lesson?  The most important lesson I’ve learned stems from a profound piece of advice given to be by a General Counsel: “When you speak, people listen.” This simple yet powerful statement has become […]

Women’s History Month | Heather Slyman
Mar 08, 2024

AFSA is celebrating Women’s History Month by featuring outstanding female leaders in the consumer credit industry.  My career started as a Programmer/Analyst at Boeing and later led to 21 Years in lending, 11 years of that in auto finance, and 16 years in software. My diverse background has led me to Odessa combining all of […]

Industry Expertise | Strategic Video Engagement: The Game-Changer in Future-Ready Auto Finance
Mar 07, 2024

AFSA’s Industry Expertise allows Business Partners to provide thought leadership and best practices information directly with AFSA member companies. For more information about taking part, contact Grace McGurn. Behind the Wheel: Allied Solutions Reflects on Used Car Week By: Suzi Straffon, Director, Finance Company Markets | Allied Solutions Considering the alarming surge in auto loan […]

A Case for Rules of the Road
Mar 06, 2024

Across our country, American households have faced several years of challenging economic times. Inflation, while the rate is decreasing, has taken a serious bite out of everyone’s monthly budgets for such basic goods as gas and groceries. Savings, which grew during the pandemic, are again dwindling. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s recent Survey of Consumer […]

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