AFSA Extra Credit Podcast

AFSA member companies are generally very good at marketing their own products and services. What about your company? Are you telling prospective hires and current employees why they should work with you? Terri Horn, Managing Director with People Strategies joins us again to share her findings and best practices on creating and developing your company's value proposition. And, its more important than ever as the economy remains unstable and inflation sticks around.

In this episode we talk about how do get started developing your company's value proposition, why it's important and an important note about the departments and people you need involved.

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Don't forget to follow AFSA on Twitter @AFSA_DC and @AFSA_SGA and on Linkedin. The blog at afsaonline.org is also a great resource for the most up-to-date news.

If you've got questions or you'd like to suggest a guest, please shoot us an email at [email protected] or tweet at us.

This episode of the Extra Credit Podcast is Part Two of our conversation with, Philip Bohi, VP of Compliance Education and Dr. Adam Gailey, Principal in the Financial Economics Practice at Charles Rivers Associates, on getting your Fair Lending house in order. In the last episode, Dr. Gailey and Philip discussed the things that you can control, like underwriting, servicing and other processes.

In this episode, the two compliance experts discuss what you cannot and what's coming down the pike. 

In this episode of the podcast, Philip Bohi, VP of Compliance Education talks with Dr. Adam Gailey, Principal in the Financial Economics Practice at Charles Rivers Associates, on getting your Fair Lending house in order and looking carefully at questions surrounding things you can control like underwriting, buy rate setting and servicing.

State and federal regulators are examining underwriting practices, rate-setting and servicing more than ever before.

Dr. Gailey has worked on numerous DOJ and CFPB investigations, class-action lawsuits, and regulatory compliance cases, that typically involve providing statistical and economic analyses of large amounts of data focusing on issues related to the use of overdraft protection, indirect auto finance, redlining, and fair lending.

A second episode, coming next week, will delve into what you can't control and what to expect next.

In this episode of the AFSA Extra Credit Podcast, Dan chats with Stephen McDaniel, Co-founder & CEO with F&I Sentinel and Rick Hackett, Board Member with F&I Sentinel and former Assistant Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

We pick Stephen's brain on some of the strategies companies can use to ensure F&I compliance is front of mind. We also take advantage of Rick's unique expertise and view into the Bureau to look at what they might be thinking on the F&I front.

Be sure to check out the webinar slide deck that Stephen & Rick did with AFSA a few weeks ago.

This isn't one to miss.

In this edition of the AFSA Extra Credit Podcast, Dan chats with Melinda Zabritski, Senior Director for Experian's automotive financial services team. She swings by to give listeners a look into what we can glean from  Experian's Q4 State of Automotive Finance report. She also looks at affordability and uses her crystal ball to see what what be coming down the pike in the Q1 report.

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Don't forget to follow AFSA on Twitter @AFSA_DC and @AFSA_SGA and on Linkedin. The blog at afsaonline.org is also a great resource for the most up-to-date news.

If you've got questions or you'd like to suggest a guest, please shoot us an email at [email protected] or tweet at us.

In this edition of the AFSA Extra Credit Podcast, we tackle the soon-to-be-effective FTC Safeguards Rule. Dailey Wilson, Attorney with Hudson Cook joins us to give us the 35,000 foot view of the rule, some of the nitty gritty that companies will have to get into and who exactly is covered (hint, its most folks). Dailey also discusses some of the unintended consequences of the rule and talks about what to expect next.

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Don't forget to follow AFSA on Twitter @AFSA_DC and @AFSA_SGA and on Linkedin. The blog at afsaonline.org is also a great resource for the most up-to-date news.

If you've got questions or you'd like to suggest a guest, please shoot us an email at [email protected] or tweet at us.

The experts from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips are back to discuss the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) registries on terms and conditions and "bad actors." We dive deep on what each registry is, the motivation for their promulgation, the impact they could have on consumers who need credit and the constitutionality of the Bureau in the first place.

Bryan Schneider

Joe Reilly

Mahul Madia

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Don't forget to follow AFSA on Twitter @AFSA_DC and @AFSA_SGA and on Linkedin. The blog at afsaonline.org is also a great resource for the most up-to-date news.

If you've got questions or you'd like to suggest a guest, please shoot us an email at [email protected] or tweet at us.

Affordability and creditworthiness are two key factors - really the two key factors - that determine whether Americans can get access to the credit they need. Unfortunately, rate caps have made affordable credit, especially those who have a challenging credit report, far more difficult to get in many locations.

In this episode of the Extra Credit Podcast, Dan Bucherer chats with Spencer Slade of PTS Financial Services about both of these factors and how lenders need to adapt to continue to reach their customers. PTS offers a vairety of different products that help lenders and consumers alike, like GAP protection, auto club memberships and tax services.

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Don't forget to follow AFSA on Twitter @AFSA_DC and @AFSA_SGA and on Linkedin. The blog at afsaonline.org is also a great resource for the most up-to-date news.

If you've got questions or you'd like to suggest a guest, please shoot us an email at [email protected] or tweet at us.

In this episode of the AFSA Extra Credit Podcast Dan chats with Olivia Moseley, Distrct Manager with Heights Finance and the Year 1 President of AFSAEF's The EDGE program.

Olivia shares how valuable the program was to her and highlights some of the key reasons she thinks all AFSA members should consider it a must-attend program for rising industry leaders. 

Registration for The EDGE and AFSAEF's Leadership Development Program is now open. Head to afsaef.org to learn more and register.

AFSA SVPs Celia Winslow and Danielle Arlowe recently appeared on he Auto Remarketing Podcast with Nick Zulovich of Auto Finance News. Celia & Danielle discussed the latest developments on the federal and state level, respectively, in connection with actions by lawmakers and regulators.

Special thanks to Nick and the team at SubPrime Auto Finance News for letting us republish the conversation here. Learn more about the Auto Remarketing Podcast and subscribe today.