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AUSTRALIAN JOURNALIST RECOUNTS HER TIME AS A DEBT COLLECTOR
- Working as a debt collector turned a journalist’s heart into “a cold, hard stone,” she says in a recounting of her time at a collection agency in Australia. The stories, the insults, and the lies “desensitized” her to the point where she lost her empathy for the individuals on the other end of the phone.
HOW BANKRUPTCY TRUSTEES USE LAWSUITS AGAINST COLLECTORS AS POTENTIAL ASSETS
- To be honest, I didn’t think this article was going to yield anything incredibly noteworthy, but it is the day after a holiday, and a Friday, so it’s not exactly the busiest news day of the year, so I read it all the way through. And was it worth it.
HIGHEST-PAID WHITE HOUSE STAFFER IS CFPB EMPLOYEE ON LOAN TO MULVANEY’S OFFICE
- The individual working in the White House who earns the most money is the director of communications from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who is acting as a senior advisor to Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s acting chief of staff.
PRESS RELEASES TOUT OPENING OF NEW AGENCY — VALOR INTELLIGENT PROCESSING
- VIP is a modern era Accounts Receivable Management (ARM) Firm led by industry veteran Gordon C. Beck III, President and Chief Operating Officer. VIP has made several key technology infrastructure investments to position VIP on the leading edge of tech-enabled ARM services. As well, FICO announced that Valor Intelligent Processing (VIP), a Jacksonville, Fl.-based modern era digital financial support services accounts receivable management (ARM) agency, led by industry veteran Gordon C. Beck III, adopted FICO® Debt ManagerTM to deliver the next generation of financial services support and debt recovery.
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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.