Better Credit Blog

AUGUST 21, 2020

If you have failed to pay a bill, you may begin to hear from a collection agency known as Radius Global Solutions. This means that Radius Global Solutions has acquired your debt from the original creditor and has opened a collection account on your credit report. Are you trying to apply for a car loan or a mortgage?

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Fico Collections

MAY 19, 2021

From banks to telcos to debt collection agencies, what looks like unrecoverable bad debt may in fact be first-party fraud. Debt collection agencies (DCAs) are leaking more profits and costs, too, trying to collect on something that isn’t recoverable. What Is First-Party Fraud? Tue, 07/02/2019 - 02:45. by Matt Cox.

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Fico Collections

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

But more tellingly, the penalty related to the mistreatment of business and personal customers who fell behind on credit card and loan payments between 2014 and 2018 – well before many of us had even heard of COVID-19. It marks the highest fine ever issued to a lender for what it deemed a breach of consumer credit rules.

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