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GETTING TO KNOW MISSY MEGGISON OF FIRST FINANCIAL ASSET MANAGEMENT
- Missy Meggison’s first job as a lawyer was for a collections law firm and, 12 years later, she hasn’t looked back. Now the general counsel and chief compliance officer for First Financial Asset Management, Missy longs for the day when we all just get along and everyone uses the same auditing form to save time and money. Read on to learn more about Missy and what she was eating as she typed out her responses to these questions.
TCPA EXPERT WEIGHS IN ON OLIVER’S ROBOCALL BIT, CALLS OUT CLAIM THAT SUIT HELPED FUEL VOLUME OF CALLS
- Eric Troutman of TCPAWorld.com has a great takedown of John Oliver’s segment on robocalls that aired this past Sunday, including debunking Oliver’s claim that the ruling in ACA International v. Federal Communications Commission is the reason why robocall volume has exploded.
REPORT CALLS OUT CFPB FOR ‘NONEXISTENT’ ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY
- Enforcement activity at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has dropped to levels that are “nonexistent,” largely due to an 80% decrease in the number of public enforcement cases and a 96% drop in the average monetary relief amount per case, according to research conducted by the Consumer Federation of America.
NORTH DAKOTA ENACTS LAW ALLOWING CONVENIENCE FEE ON CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS
- Buckley LLP has news that the governor of North Dakota has signed a bill into law that will allow collection agencies to charge a convenience fee when processing a payment with an individual’s credit card.
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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.