{"id":444288,"date":"2026-09-22T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444288\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:38:09","slug":"auto-loan-company-to-lay-off-205-workers-in-arlington-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444288\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto-loan company to lay off 205 workers in Arlington, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regional Acceptance Corporation, a Truist Bank affiliate, told the Texas Workforce Commission it plans to permanently close its facility on East Bardin Road, according to a Sept. 15 WARN Notice. The company said its closure is tied to the sale of certain assets and that operations at the Arlington facility are expected to end around February 28, 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About 205 full-time employees at the Arlington office are expected to lose their jobs, with the first separations set to begin around Nov. 30 and a second round of layoffs by Feb. 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regional Acceptance is not a household name for many Texans, but its work may seem familiar: auto loans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regionalacceptance.com\/shared\/about-us\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">On its website, the company describes itself<\/a> as a national auto finance company with more than 40 years of lending experience and says in the notice that it is an affiliate of Truist Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Truist, headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truist.com\/who-we-are\/about-truist?gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=19512689233&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwzsjVBhC3ARIsALnMv4mRXN2iB9yzKM2pa-9vzHUmm7M_6z6hlL8rfR0bHj_KNg0VpXvcbVkaAiO3EALw_wcB\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">describes itself<\/a> as a top-10 U.S. commercial bank with wholesale and consumer businesses including small business and commercial banking, wealth management, payments and specialized lending. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finalroundai.com\/blog\/truist-layoffs\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">company reported $556 billion<\/a> in total assets as of June 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Texas is just one of three sites that will experience layoffs, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nc\/charlotte\/news\/2026\/09\/18\/truist-affiliate-rac-to-lay-off-over-250-workers-in--5-5-billion-auto-loan-sale\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">according to Spectrum News<\/a>. A total of 458 employees across Texas and North Carolina will experience layoffs, including 156 in Winterville, 97 in Greenville and 205 in Arlington.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re committed to supporting them through this transition including consideration for other roles at Truist, severance benefits, and job search assistance,&#8221; Brian Davis, director of consumer and small business banking communications for Truist,\u00a0told Chron in an emailed statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regional Acceptance Corporation, a Truist Bank affiliate, told the Texas Workforce Commission it plans to permanently close its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1836,1704,85744],"class_list":["post-444288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-chrontexas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}