AFSA Extra Credit Podcast American Financial Services Association

In this edition of the AFSA Extra Credit Podcast, we chat with Lena Bourgeois, SVP & General Manager of Automotive & Insurance with Equifax about alternative data. It’s a term that gets thrown around a lot but Lena gives us the download on what it is, what it can do for your business and most importantly, how it can increase credit access for consumers. We also touch on how bringing alternative data into your business processes can help you weather our current economic uncertainty.
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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 communications@afsamail.org or tweet at us.

In this edition of the AFSA Extra Credit Podcast, we chat with Robert Steenbergh, Founder & CEO of AutoPayPlus which offers consumers a flexible auto financing schedule that matches payments with paychecks. We have a broad conversation about Robert’s journey, the benefits of changing the perspective on how consumers pay for vehicles and the importance of affordability.
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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 communications@afsamail.org or tweet at us.

The AFSA Extra Credit Podcast Industry Icon series continues, featuring outstanding female leaders in the consumer credit industry. This episode features Suzi Straffon, Director, Finance Company Markets with Allied Solutions
Suzi has had a successful career because of her tenacity and importance she places on learning, particularly from her mentors.  She chats with Danielle Fagre Arlowe, SVP of AFSA, on how she ended up in the industry, who her influences are, and touches on the importance of having a mentor.
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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 communications@afsamail.org or tweet at us.

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 communications@afsamail.org 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.