FCC ISSUES ORDERS LIMITING NON-TELEMARKETING CALLS AND REQUIRING OPT-OUTS
- The Federal Communications Commission yesterday issued two orders, one of which restricts the number of non-telemarketing calls that can be made by non-commercial, commercial, and tax-exempt nonprofit organizations under the Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act. The other order bestows more power on voice service providers to make sure their networks are not being used to transmit illegal robocalls.
LEGAL EXPERTS SHARE THE CASES THAT SHAPED THE INDUSTRY IN 2020
- Twenty-twenty will easily be remembered as the year of the pandemic and will also easily be remembered as the year the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released the long-awaited debt collection rule, but there were a lot of other important events that occurred this year that will shape the accounts receivable management industry for years to come. AccountsRecovery.net asked some of the leading legal and compliance experts — Brit Suttell, Lauren Burnette, Caren Enloe, Heath Morgan, Rick Perr, and Stefanie Jackman — to share the lawsuits they thought had the biggest impact on the ARM industry in 2020. Here is what they cited.
INDUSTRY EXPERTS SHARE THE WORD THAT DEFINED 2020 FOR THEM
- AccountsRecovery.net asked a number of industry luminaries — Rick Rainho, Brian Elrod, Jeff DiMatteo, Mary Shores, Roger Weiss, and Jason Hiland — and experts to complete a seemingly impossible task: Take everything that happened in 2020 and describe it in one word. Here is what they said.
WHAT THE ARM INDUSTRY WILL REMEMBER ABOUT 2020
- To help summarize, encapsulate, and put a period on 2020, AccountsRecovery.net reached out to a number of industry veterans — Matt Kiefer, Beth Conklin, Joann Needleman, Chris Repholz, and Todd Santa Maria — and asked them what they will remember most about 2020. Here is what they said.
FORGOING HOLIDAY GIFTS, VOAPPS LETS CLIENTS CHOOSE CHARITIES TO RECEIVE MORE THAN $10K IN DONATIONS
- VoApps is proud to announce that it donated its holiday gift budget of more than $10,000 to charities across the country during this holiday season, all on behalf of its valued clients.
WORTH NOTING: It’s already 2021 in some places around the world … How chief information officers and chief technology officers think office life will change post-COVID-19 … Some of the favorite facts of 2020 … The eight most inspiring moments of 2020 … An employee took 808 sick days and was fired. So he sued the company. The punchline? He won … How to move forward in your career in 2021 … The best films of 2020 that you haven’t seen … Half of the states are raising their minimum wage in 2021.
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