Getting to Know Laura Thesing of Credit Bureau Data
- Imagine having so many Christmas decorations, you don’t have enough space every year to put them all out. That is the situation at Laura Thesing’s house. But, is the fact that she loves a holiday that is more about giving than receiving a surprise? This is someone who would choose a job in customer service if she were working somewhere else. She was also part of the group that formed the Great Lakes Credit and Collections Association. Read on to learn more about Laura, the one thing she can’t pass up when she sees it, and how being available on a Monday morning 35 years ago led to a career in collections.
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Judge Grants Defense’s MSJ in FDCPA Case Over DOFD
- A District Court judge in Kentucky has granted a defendant’s motion for summary judgment and denied a plaintiff’s motion for the same in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case that centers around the Date of First Delinquency and its materiality in inducing the plaintiff to pay off the debt in question.
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Student Loan Repayments to Have Little Impact on Economy: Fed Report
- Concerns about the impact of individuals having to start making their student loan payments again on the economy are overblown, according to a report released by researchers from the Federal Reserve Board of New York. This is good news for companies in the accounts receivable management space who were concerned that the resumption of student loan debt payments would reduce the amount of money that consumers had to repay other debts.
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Collection ‘Kingpin’ Accused of Destroying Evidence
- New phone, who dis? A collection “kingpin” who has been sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Attorney General of New York for hiding assets in order to avoid paying a $60 million judgment is now being accused of destroying evidence by trading in his cell phone for a new one, which got rid of text messages that were on the defendant’s old phone.
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