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How To Remove Delivery Financial Services From Your Credit Report

Better Credit Blog

Are you concerned about a collections entry from Delivery Financial Services? While falling behind on a payment or two might not seem like a big deal, collections-stage debt can do substantial damage to your credit. About Delivery Financial Services. How Delivery Financial Services Works.

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CFPB Shuts Down Commonwealth Financial Systems for Illegal Debt Collection Practices

Collection Industry News

Commonwealth Financial Systems is a nonbank corporation with its principal place of business in Dickson City, Pennsylvania. Commonwealth is a third-party debt collector that specializes in the collection of past-due medical debts and furnishes information about consumer collection accounts to consumer reporting companies.

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CFPB releases final rule to implement FDCPA

Collection Industry News

The regulator explained the rule focuses on debt collection communications and gives consumers more control over how often and through what means debt collectors can communicate with them regarding their debts. The entire new rule can be downloaded on this website.

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How To Remove DCM Services From Your Credit Report

Better Credit Blog

DCM Services LLC primarily helps businesses collect on the delinquent accounts of the deceased by targeting their estates. They collect on debts in numerous industries, such as: Auto. Financial Services. Billing and customer service. Healthcare. Telecommunications. Arrange a Pay-for-delete Agreement.

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How to Remove FMA Alliance From Your Credit Report

Better Credit Blog

FMA Alliance is a third-party debt collector that works with companies to recover delinquent accounts from customers. Before a debt collector can contact you for payment, they must first report the debt to the major credit bureaus. The majority of their clientele are within: financial services.

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Is A Bank A “Debt Collector” Under California’s Rosenthal Act? Maybe Not.

FDCPA Defense

Unlike the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, et. seq. , (“FDCPA”), which, generally speaking, only applies to third party debt collectors, the Rosenthal Act broadly defines a “debt collector” to include persons or entities that collect on behalf of themselves or others.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services COVID-19 Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

State Activities: On January 1, 2022, California’s medical debt law will take effect, which means agencies licensed in the state will have limits on collection actions and their health care clients will be required to have a written policy on how they send accounts to third-party debt collectors.