Fri.Jul 07, 2023

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The Difference between Collecting Debt from a Person vs. a Business

Enterprise Recovery

B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer) debt collections are different. Agencies that collect from individuals will use different collection tactics and are subject to harsher regulations than those that collect from businesses. Often these agencies choose to separate consumer collections from commercial collections because the processes vary.

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Class-Action Filed For Failing to Provide Validation Information in Letter

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is part of a series that is sponsored by WebRecon. WebRecon identifies serial plaintiffs lurking in your database BEFORE you contact them and expose yourself to a likely lawsuit. Protect your company from as many as one in three new consumer lawsuits by scrubbing your consumers through WebRecon first. Want to learn more?

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Connecticut Becomes Latest State to Enact a Commercial Financing Disclosure and Registration Law

Troutman Sanders

On June 28, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Senate Bill 1032 entitled An Act Requiring Certain Financing Disclosures , which requires certain providers of commercial financing to make various disclosures and requires providers and brokers to register. Connecticut now joins states like Utah, California, Georgia, New York, Florida, and Virginia (discussed here , here , here , here , here , and here ) in requiring such disclosures.

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Appeals Court Grants En Banc Request in FDCPA Case

Account Recovery

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has granted an en banc rehearing request filed by a collector in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case, and will determine for itself whether the plaintiff had standing to file his lawsuit in the first place, rather than remanding the case back to the District Court […]

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

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.

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CFPB’s 2022 Fair Lending Report Focuses on Bias in Mortgage Lending, Redlining, Home Appraisals, Small Business Lending, and Shows Continued Skepticism of AI

Troutman Sanders

As shown by a new report, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) is focusing its fair lending work on mortgage origination and pricing, small business lending, redlining, and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models. On June 29, the CFPB released its annual Fair Lending Report (Report) to Congress describing its fair lending enforcement and supervisory activities, guidance, and rulemaking for calendar year 2022.

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Making Credit Decisions Is a Team Effort

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The latest episode of Extra Credit is available for listening! The best credit decisions are made in a team environment and several different departments can provide input. A recent eNews poll revealed 97% of credit teams involve upper management in credit decisions, along with the sales team (26%), treasury (9%) and customer service (3%).&nbs.

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Daily Digest – July 7. Class-Action Filed for Failing to Provide Validation Info in Letter; Appeals Court Grants En Banc Request in FDCPA Case

Account Recovery

CLASS-ACTION FILED FOR FAILING TO PROVIDE VALIDATION INFORMATION IN LETTER IN MEMORIAM: GIL VIGNEAULT APPEALS COURT GRANTS EN BANC REQUEST IN FDCPA CASE SENATE DEMOCRATS CALL ON CFPB TO PROTECT CONSUMERS FROM AI-BASED SCAMS WORTH NOTHING: Why parents of young kids may want to break out the board games … I already hated the beach, […]

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Senate Democrats Call on CFPB to Protect Consumers from AI-based Scams

Account Recovery

A quartet of Senate Democrats are calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to “take action” and protect consumers from voice cloning technology that may be used to fraudulently access consumers’ finances and bank accounts. The Senators — Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-Ohio], the Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, Sen. Bob Menendez [D-N.J.], Sen.

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