“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. In financial services, trust is everything. Customers rely on their lenders and financial institutions to protect sensitive data, securely process transactions, and communicate reliably. […]

In this episode of the AFSA Extra Episode Podcast, Dan discusses delays and their costs with Adam Fader, Senior Manager, Business Development at MVTRAC and Sam Van Scoyoc, VP of Business Development for Secure Collateral Management (SCM), the combination of which forms AFSA Business Partner DRN MVTRAC SCM. Lenders lose millions annually from delayed recoveries, […]

The American Financial Services Association (AFSA) released today two significant economic reports undertaken with Oxford Economics, that shows that vehicle financing and personal lending by finance companies together add more than $145 billion annually to the U.S. economy and support nearly 840,000 jobs nationwide. The two studies — The Economic Impact of Vehicle Financing in the […]

On October 21, 2025, AFSA provided comments on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Personal Financial Data Rights (PFDR) Reconsideration effort. This advance notice or proposed rulemaking (ANPR) sought public feedback on various aspects of the CFPB’s PFDR rule. Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act required certain financial institutions to make upon request financial transaction data available to consumers […]

According to the Federal Reserve’s October Beige Book, the consumer economy remains uneven amid persistent inflationary pressure and broader economic uncertainty. The Beige Book is unusual among major economic reports in that it is qualitative in nature, relying on input from business and community contacts in each of the nation’s 12 Federal Reserve districts to characterize […]

“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. For the first time this year, the cost of credit has decreased. Will this rate cut catalyze a wave of refinancing? Time will tell […]

Last week, AFSA wrote a letter urging the Senate Commerce and the House Energy and Commerce committees to introduce legislation to modernize national standards for  debt settlement companies (DSCs), aiming to improve transparency for consumers and financial institutions. DSCs target consumers with large balances of debt and claim to provide a quick way ro negotiate down the […]

As AFSA President and CEO Celia Winslow notes in her recent op-ed in Stars and Stripes, the financial stability for America’s active military servicemembers and their families is tantamount to a national security matter. For our military to be focused on the security of our nation, they should not be distracted or weighed down by […]

BUSINESS PARTNER WEBINAR COMPETE OR VANISH: A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR LENDERS IN THE AGE OF ONLINE BORROWING OCTOBER 16, 2025 AT 2:00 P.M. EST The lending landscape is shifting fast, and borrowers expect the convenience of mobile-first services. Traditional brick-and-mortar lenders are losing ground to online competitors who deliver an end-to-end digital experience. In this […]

The AFSA Education Foundation recently joined representatives from the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) and the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers (NAMAD) at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 54th Annual Legislative Conference (ALC). The event brought close to 16,000 attendees from across the U.S. and internationally. Myra Dandridge, Executive Director of External Affairs and […]