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GETTING TO KNOW JOHN VIGGIANO OF SIMON’S AGENCY
- If not for a chance conversation in a bar one Thanksgiving weekend, John Viggiano may well be following the Dave Matthews Band in an RV instead of working in the credit and collection industry. And, despite the freedom of following your favorite rock band around the world, if push came to shove, John might even say that everything worked out for the best. Read on to learn more about John and why he wears the badge “jack of all trades” with honor.
CRUNCH PETITIONS SUPREME COURT FOR HEARING IN TCPA CASE
- As had been expected, Crunch San Diego has filed a petition with the Supreme Court, appealing a ruling it received in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that ultimately created a vast definition for what constitutes an automated telephone dialing system.
NY LEGISLATURE CONSIDERING PRIVACY BILL SIMILAR TO CCPA
- Following on the heels of the California Consumer Privacy Act, a bill has been introduced in the New York state legislature that would require businesses to provide consumers with all of their personal information that the business retains or discloses to a third party.
M&A ACTIVITY IN HEALTHCARE SPACE STAYS RED-HOT
- The trend that all collection agencies who work in the healthcare sector have endured for several years now continued to worsen in 2018, as the number of merger and acquisition deals among hospitals increased 14% from 2017’s totals, according to a report issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
2019 ARM SURVEY OPENS TO KICK OFF ANNUAL BILLINGTREE OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH SERIES
- BillingTree®, the payment problem solvers™, announced today the start of its seventh annual ‘Operations and Technology’ research series, which examines industry specific opportunities and challenges including payment trends. The first study for 2019 is the ARM industry ‘Collection Agency Operations and Technology Survey’ providing key decision-makers with up-to-date benchmarks and best practices for technology adoption. Surveys for Financial Services and Healthcare will follow later this year. Click here to go right to the survey.
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The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us to find out about our 90 Day Try Us Program. Call 800-884-4397 or visit www.microbilt.com.
