Company: CPSS
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001683168-25-001548
Chunk: 26

Company: CONSUMER PORTFOLIO SERVICES, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-12
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 26
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 substantially greater financial, sales, technical, personnel
and other resources than we do. Moreover, our future profitability will be directly related to the availability and cost of our capital
in relation to the availability and cost of capital to our competitors. Our competitors and potential competitors include far larger,
more established companies that have access to capital markets for unsecured commercial paper and investment grade-rated debt instruments
and to other funding sources that may be unavailable to us. Many of these companies also have long-standing relationships with dealers
and may provide other financing to dealers, including floor plan financing for the dealers’ purchase of automobiles from manufacturers,
which we do not offer.

We believe that the principal
competitive factors affecting a dealer’s decision to offer automobile contracts for sale to a particular financing source are the monthly
payment amount made available to the dealer’s customer, the purchase price offered for the automobile contracts, the timeliness
of the response to the dealer upon submission of the initial application, the amount of required documentation, the consistency and timeliness
of purchases and the financial stability of the funding source. While we believe that we can obtain from dealers sufficient automobile
contracts for purchase at attractive prices by consistently applying reasonable underwriting criteria and making timely purchases of qualifying
automobile contracts, there can be no assurance that we will do so.

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Regulation

Numerous federal and state
consumer protection laws, including the federal Truth-In-Lending Act, the federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the federal Fair
Debt Collection Practices Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act, regulate consumer credit transactions. These laws mandate certain
disclosures with respect to finance charges on automobile contracts and impose certain other restrictions. In most states, a license is
required to engage in the business of purchasing automobile contracts from dealers. In addition, laws in a number of states impose limitations
on the amount of finance charges that may be charged by dealers on credit sales. The so-called Lemon Laws enacted by various states provide
certain rights to purchasers with respect to automobiles that fail to satisfy express warranties. The application of Lemon Laws or violation
of such other federal and state laws may give rise to a claim or defense of a customer against a dealer and its assignees, including us
and those who purchase automobile contracts from us. The dealer agreement contains representations by the dealer that, as of the date
of assignment of automobile contracts, no such claims or defenses have been asserted or threatened with respect to the automobile contracts
and that all requirements of such federal and state laws have been