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 3, 2024

She won’t officially give her State of the State speech until next week, but New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced many of the components that she will address in her remarks, including expanding consumer protections and a plan to introduce legislation that limits medical debt collection in the Empire State.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

For lawyers who engage with the buying public – which is just about every lawyer, whether they’re working with consumers o r businesses – workshops can be a great way to build a client and referral base, as well as solidifying an attorney’s expertise. Estate planning lawyers for example, have success running workshops, and often include related professionals, like financial planners.

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Account Recovery

JANUARY 3, 2024

During this, The Great Resignation Era, I thought it would be helpful to start a regular posting of different jobs within the accounts receivable management industry that I have found online. Please make sure to do your own due diligence before applying for a position included here or accepting any offers.

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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.

Troutman Sanders

JANUARY 3, 2024

To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week: Federal Activities State Activities Federal Activities: On December 30, Reuters reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may notify the 14 asset managers vying to issue a spot Bitcoin ETF that their applications could be approved as early as next week, ahead of a possible January 10 launch

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Troutman Sanders

JANUARY 3, 2024

On December 22, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued an opinion on whether Earned Wage Access (EWA) products constitute either “consumer loans” under Montana Code § 32-5-102(2)(a) or “deferred deposit loans” under § 31-1-703. In short, AG Knudsen’s opinion was no, “so long as the EWA product is fully non-recourse, does not condition an income-based advance on any interest, fees, or other consideration or expenses, and limits income-based advances to income already earned by the consume

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Account Recovery

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has weighed in on a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case currently before the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, filing an amicus brief that takes the position that collectors can and should be held liable under the FDCPA when they make a false statement, even if they claim […]

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Account Recovery

JANUARY 3, 2024

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