Better Credit Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

If you have debt in any of the areas listed above, Fairway Collections is legally allowed to contact you to collect. Lenders and companies who provide you with paid services will attempt to reach you to collect payment on late accounts for a period of time. After some time, they may turn your debt over to collections.

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Taurus Collect

JANUARY 20, 2023

If so, it’s likely that they have already checked your credit report. It can be tricky trying to deal with a debt collection agency , but understanding why and how they check your credit score is the key to regaining control of the situation. Are you being contacted by debt collectors?

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Fico Collections

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Saxon Shirley Fri, 05/20/2022 - 06:06 by FICO expand_less Back To Top Tue, 02/07/2023 - 19:10 As the independent standard in credit scoring, FICO® Scores are the leading credit scores used extensively across the lending ecosystem. million previously “unscorable” consumer files. Read the full post 3.

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Katabat

JANUARY 17, 2020

I believe 2019 will be remembered as a critical transformational year for the debt collection industry. Long-percolating patterns and pressures firmly coalesced around permanent shifts in digital consumer behavior (hello, TikTok!), The industry has shifted from “whether” to lean into these shifts to “how and when”. I know Katabat will.

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Nexa Collect

JULY 1, 2020

At any given point, we may have several credit scores based on our financial history, as measured by companies such as FICO or VantageScore Solutions, another credit analysis company. It’s important to keep in mind that your score is calculated using both positive and negative information on your credit reports.

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Better Credit Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Citi is a popular bank that provides credit cards for a wide range of retail stores like The Home Depot. With The Home Depot, in particular, Citi offers four credit options: Consumer Credit Card. When you apply for any one of these cards, loans, or credit accounts, you authorize Citibank to run a hard credit check.

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Troutman Sanders

MAY 31, 2022

SF 2922 contains a work-from-home provision, allowing collection agency staff to continue working remotely. The DFPI previously stated that persons who file an application by March 15 would be deemed temporarily in compliance with California’s licensing requirement, pending the approval of the license application.

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Credit Corp

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This debt management program can affect your credit in several ways—mostly positively. While individual lenders may care that a credit counseling agency is repaying your accounts, FICO does not. Of course, delinquent payments and high balances will continue to bring your score down, even if you’re working with an agency.

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Troutman Sanders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Federal Activities: On September 29, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its fifth biennial report to Congress on the consumer credit card market, finding that the market’s growth over the last few years reversed course in 2020. Privacy and Cybersecurity Activities. For more information, click here.

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Troutman Sanders

MAY 9, 2023

The proposed rule would require lenders to assess a borrower’s ability to repay a PACE loan and would provide a framework for how these loans will be treated under the Truth in Lending Act. PACE loans, secured by a property tax lien on the borrower’s home, are often promoted as a way to finance clean energy improvements, such as solar panels.

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Fico Collections

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It marks the highest fine ever issued to a lender for what it deemed a breach of consumer credit rules. 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.

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Credit Corp

JUNE 3, 2020

They provide a service to you and then bill you, similar to a credit extension. The company, creditor or collection agency has legal ways to pursue payment. The Consumer Credit Protection Act caps these types of garnishments. These liens notify lenders of the creditor’s rights to your property.

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Troutman Sanders

JANUARY 11, 2021

In its report, the Taskforce makes approximately 100 recommendations to the CFPB, Congress, and state and federal regulators to strengthen consumer protection. The PPP will open to all participating lenders shortly thereafter. For more information, click here.

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Better Credit Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

The first step, if you have paid the full collection account, settlement, or have been making regular on-time payments, is to mail the collection agency a “ goodwill letter ” that explains your situation. Then kindly ask the debt collector to remove collections from your credit report out of goodwill.

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Better Credit Blog

MAY 12, 2022

Just like with consumer credit, debt from a civil judgment must be validated under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Get this agreement in writing, and don’t give a creditor or collection agency your bank account information or credit card number. How Long Do Judgments Stay on My Credit Report?

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Troutman Sanders

JUNE 14, 2023

The bill exempts certain accounts that originate in the Department of Revenue from the general requirement to assign liquidated and delinquent accounts to a private collection agency within one year of the most recent payment on the account. On June 7, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed SB 981 into law. For more information, click here.

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Credit Corp

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Lenders use a multitude of scoring methods to determine your creditworthiness and make decisions about whether or not to give you credit. It gathers credit reports from the three major credit bureaus and analyzes anonymous consumer data to generate a scoring model specific to each bureau.

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