Sentences with phrase «largest debt collection companies»

According to CNN here, the two largest debt collection companies in the United States are being ordered to pay millions of dollars for wrongfully collecting on illegitimate and unscrupulous debts.

Beginning January 2013, the nation's largest debt collection companies will face new oversight by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Debt validation (aka: Disputing debt collection accounts) According to CNN here, the two largest debt collection companies in the United States are being ordered to pay millions of dollars for wrongfully collecting on illegitimate and unscrupulous debts.

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Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

With multiple companies offering a commercial service to collectors to identify consumers enrolled in debt settlement programs through the use of an aggregated database of debt settlement consumers, many buyers and collectors have developed a hybrid strategy of working directly with a few large debt settlement companies while also scrubbing collection files and submitting offers through third party debt settlement account aggregators.

Midland Funding is part of Encore Capital Group, one of the largest debt buying companies in the U.S. Through its subsidiaries, Encore Capital and other debt buying companies purchase credit card, medical and other debts, usually from the original creditors after many months, or even years, of unsuccessful collection attempts by the original lenders.

I am proud to call many of the largest banks, collection agencies, debt buyers and insurance companies our clients and have roughly a 50/50 case distribution between Plaintiffs and Defendants.

The 77 million Americans pursued and often harassed by debt collection agencies won a moment of relief when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered the nation's two largest debt buying companies to stop collecting on $ 128 million in debt and...

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