PDC Flow

JANUARY 29, 2024

Debt settlement campaigns are initiatives where debt collection agencies offer a discount to consumers to boost collection on old or unresponsive accounts. Tax season is the best time to consider a debt settlement campaign within your debt collection agency. A debt settlement campaign can help your agency: liquidate inventory more quickly increase revenue for you and your clients increase the energy and morale on your collection floor At the same time, your consumer gets a deal, reduces their de

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Collections Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

Anyone involved in any type of business knows that there will inevitably be a client or customer who does not pay their bill. Our experienced collection lawyers at the Law Offices of Alan M. Cohen & Associates LLC know and understand how frustrating it is to have customers who refuse to pay. We also know that letting those customers get away with not paying the money they owe is obviously bad for business.

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American Profit Recovery

JANUARY 9, 2024

If your business is at a point where you know you can improve cash flow, there are many things that you can address internally that can advance your chances of better cash flow. If you’re running a small business, you may be cleaning up your books anyway to hand them off to your CPA for tax season. So why not in the process, take a hard look at your accounts receivable process and make any necessary changes.

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Account Recovery

JANUARY 26, 2024

While the number of consumers who can afford to pay a $1,000 emergency expense has remained largely unchanged for the past three years, the percentage of consumers who are putting less away for a rainy day is on the rise, largely due to inflation, according to data released this week by Bankrate.

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Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.

Credit Corp

JANUARY 24, 2024

Many or all of the products featured here are from our partners who compensate us. This may influence which products we write about and where and how the product appears on a page. However, this does not influence our evaluations. The credit approval process varies based on the type of credit you seek. Credit cards can take several days, loans can range from days to weeks, and mortgages can take weeks to a month.

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Consumer Finance

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed to block financial institutions from one potential source of new junk fee revenue – fees on instantaneously declined transactions.

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Jimerson Firm

JANUARY 2, 2024

Purchasing a home is one of the most important—and stressful—purchases a consumer makes. Oftentimes, the process is long, tedious, and nerve-racking. For first-time homebuyers, there are a lot of unknowns, and for sellers, there is much to consider to protect oneself and get the best money for your investment. Unfortunately, many times, sales fall through for a number of reasons, and what occurs thereafter is often not something that is contemplated before the process begins.

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American Profit Recovery

JANUARY 3, 2024

If you’re like many owners and operators of small businesses, you’re looking at the year ahead and trying to figure out how next year can be better than before. While New Year’s resolutions might not work, getting the year off on the right track is time well spent for your small business. From reviewing the processes and procedures your small business uses regularly, looking at cash flow, invoicing and how you use a debt collection agency, to just some basic goal setting, it

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Account Recovery

JANUARY 2, 2024

As part of the festivities to mark the end of one calendar year and the start of a new one, I ask different professionals from across the accounts receivable management industry for their predictions for the coming year — what do they think is going to happen, what kind of year is it going to […]

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Troutman Sanders

JANUARY 29, 2024

The debt purchaser in In re McIntosh argued that because it was enforcing a debt that was not listed correctly on the debtor’s bankruptcy schedules, it was entitled to assume the debt had not been discharged. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida disagreed and entered an award of sanctions in the total amount of $64,686.93 — including $10,000 for emotional distress and over $21,000 in punitive damages.

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Enterprise Recovery

JANUARY 29, 2024

Complex tax questions can be especially confusing for small businesses, freelancers, or startup companies. It's important that your business's financial records are maintained with integrity and organization. If you're a one-person department or temporarily taking on the accounting role, it's natural to have some questions and uncertainties. Avoid common accounting mistakes and ensure a smooth tax season with these best practices.

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Consumer Finance

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued guidance to consumer reporting companies to address inaccurate background check reports, as well as sloppy credit file sharing practices.

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Prosperity Now

JANUARY 21, 2024

In September, Prosperity Now launched the second iteration of the VITA Leadership Institute, through generous support from the Wells Fargo Foundation. The VITA Leadership Institute (VLI) aims to train a diverse class of ten emerging VITA leaders to build their capacity to expand and scale free, high-quality, and racially equitable tax preparation services for low-income taxpayers in their communities.

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American Profit Recovery

JANUARY 5, 2024

The relationships you build with customers are the lifeblood of your organization, no matter the size. In short, your business will not thrive without solid relationships with customers. It’s just that simple. Building lasting and trusting relationships with consumers is one of the best ways to see continual growth in your organization. You should not think of your customers as transactional.

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Account Recovery

JANUARY 24, 2024

A class-action complaint has been filed in California state court against the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles for violating the state’s debt collection law by adding unlawful fees and penalties to the renewal fees for driver’s licenses and vehicle registrations.

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Troutman Sanders

JANUARY 25, 2024

Last month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law Assembly Bill 2672 , which both prohibits sellers from charging a credit card surcharge greater than what they are charged by the credit card company and requires sellers to clearly post the price of the credit card surcharge. The law will take effect on February 11, 2024. Specifically, the law provides that any seller in any sales transaction imposing a surcharge on a customer using a credit card shall clearly and conspicuously post the

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FFGN COLLECT NY

JANUARY 15, 2024

As millions of people stayed home during the pandemic, they turned to digital entertainment services, meal delivery services, clothing subscriptions, and online diet and exercise programs. This gave businesses the incentive to shift to a digital subscription model. At the same time, many businesses adopted deceptive subscription marketing policies that make services easy to sign up for but difficult to cancel.

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Speaker: Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®

Niche markets represent a huge opportunity for the financial services industry in America. From college students and women to communities of color and low-to-moderate-income households, niche populations have specialized financial needs – but they often underutilize many valuable financial products and services. How can you better connect with these consumers?

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Consumer Finance

JANUARY 4, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published an issue spotlight today on the CFPB’s oversight of student loan servicing practices in the early months of the resumption of federal student loan repayments after over three years of a payment pause due to the COVID-19 emergency.

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UK debt collections

JANUARY 15, 2024

A bogus debt collection scam gang have been brought to justice after defrauding a pensioner businessman out of around £410,000. The group, that fraudulently ripped the business owner, from Northallerton North Yorkshire, off over three years have now faced sentences in court. Wayne Mark McCreery, 50, of St Andrews Road, Stretford, Trafford, Manchester, targeted the victim, who is aged in his 70s, between 2015 and 2018.

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American Profit Recovery

JANUARY 12, 2024

You want to keep your hard-earned customers. We thought so! Sometimes as you well know, customers do not pay. But that does not mean you have to lose that customer. In many cases, something has prevented your customer from paying on time or meeting their financial obligations to your business. While there are obviously disputes that need to be worked out, sometimes a customer just needs a little time and assistance to get caught up with your business.

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Account Recovery

JANUARY 12, 2024

A District Court judge in Ohio has dismissed a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case because the plaintiff lacked standing to sue, even though he did allege some claims that have been considered sufficient for standing in the past (at least to my non-lawyer eyes).

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Speaker: William Hord, Vice President of ERM Services

A well-defined change management process is critical to minimizing the impact that change has on your organization. Leveraging the data that your ERM program already contains is an effective way to help create and manage the overall change management process within your organization. Your ERM program generally assesses and maintains detailed information related to strategy, operations, and the remediation plans needed to mitigate the impact on the organization.

Prosperity Now

JANUARY 23, 2024

As Congress is hard at work trying to keep the government from shutting down, they’ve also made progress on some critical legislation for families and children with a bipartisan tax package that expands the current Child Tax Credit.

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PDC Flow

JANUARY 19, 2024

“Privacy works flexibly. It’s scalable. And it’s unique to every situation we’re in.” This is a quote from Leslie Bender , Senior Attorney of Health Privacy and Consumer Financial Privacy during her presentation at Collector Live , a yearly event hosted by Mike Gibb of AccountsRecovery.net. The virtual conference for frontline and upper management debt collectors hosted several experts including debt collection industry professional Harry Strausser III.

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Consumer Finance

JANUARY 18, 2024

The CFPB and state attorneys general sued Strategic Financial Solutions and its web of shell companies for running an illegal debt-relief enterprise.

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UK debt collections

JANUARY 26, 2024

Luxury homes builder Kenham Building has called in administrators, with all staff made redundant. The west London firm appointed ReSolve partners Cameron Gunn and Chris Farrington as administrators after encountering cashflow problems. Kenham operated for 25 years but hit technical challenges related to groundworks on a large residential refurbishment scheme.

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Speaker: Karl Camilleri, Cloud Services Product Manager at phoenixNAP

Did you know that 2021 was a record-breaking year for ransomware? The days of a “once in a while” attack against businesses and organizations are over. Cyberthreats have become a serious issue. With 495.1 million attacks, the threat marked a 148% increase compared to 2020 and was the most expensive year on record! As a result, data protection needs to be a concern for most banks, businesses, and information technology specialists.

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