ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WEEK IS COMING
- It might be one of the biggest mis-conceptions in the accounts receivable management industry today. Ask 10 different professionals to define either artificial intelligence or machine learning and you will likely get 10 different definitions with very little in common between them. But this technology is starting to revolutionize the debt collection industry. Surely we all need to get on the same page. And quick. Enter AccountsRecovery.net’s Artificial Intelligence Week.
CALIF. APPEALS COURT RULES ON FDCPA, TCPA CASE INVOKING ANTI-SLAPP DEFENSE
- The California State Court of Appeals has partially overturned a lower court’s denial of a lawsuit claiming a collection law firm violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in which the defendant attempted to use an anti-SLAPP motion to have the case dismissed.
THE WORKERS HARDEST HIT BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
- As might be expected, customer service representatives, a category of workers that include collection agents, were among the hardest hit during the early days of the pandemic, according to research that was published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The research looked at the annual earnings of those who had jobs that were most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
COMMENT PERIOD ON TIME-BARRED DEBT DISCLOSURE RULE CLOSES TODAY
- Today is the deadline for individuals to file comments on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPRM) on time-barred debt disclosures, and unless a lot of people are waiting until the last minute, it is not going to take long to read all the comments that have been submitted so far.
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