General News

The House Financial Services Committee has postponed its scheduled hearing on debt collection, without providing a reason or a new date. Originally scheduled for Tuesday, June 25 at 10 AM, the hearing “Examining Legislation to Protect Consumers and Small Business Owners from Abusive Debt Collection Practices” has been postponed until …

Atlanta, GA and London, UK – May 23, 2019 – Telrock is proud to announce the release of SmartConnect, their next generation digital channel messaging software platform. SmartConnect represents a robust set of digital channel messaging capabilities that are quick to deploy, easy to use, very economical, and can be …

CORAL SPRINGS, FLORIDA, June 3, 2019 — Nordis Technologies, an innovative customer communications management (CCM) and electronic bill presentment and payments (EBPP) solutions company, has recruited Paola Buitron-Bouw as its corporate counsel and compliance officer and Leana Maharaj as director of accounting and has promoted Lesster Maspoch to vice president of application development. “Paola, Leana …

The largest accounts receivable management company in California has announced it is consolidating two offices into one, which will serve as the company’s Northern California headquarters. USCB America, which is based out of Los Angeles, specializes in collecting healthcare, retail, and financial services accounts, is moving into a 15,000-square foot …

ACA International has pointed out that the House Financial Services Committee has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, June 25 on the topic of debt collection, but has not provided many details about what exactly will be discussed. The announcement of the June hearing schedule including the hearing on the 25th, …

LAKEWOOD RANCH, FL, UNITED STATES, May 23, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — Beam Software, a subject matter expert on receivables management software, announced that Premium Asset Recovery Corporation (PARC) has chosen BEAM as its SaaS purchased receivables management platform. PARC is a leader in the healthcare debt-buying market and their portfolio evaluation process …

CORAL SPRINGS, FLORIDA, May 29, 2019—Nordis Technologies, an innovative customer communications management and payment technology solutions company, announced today that Southern Auto Finance Company, LLC (“SAFCO”), a national auto finance company, will implement its Expresso® customer communications management (CCM) system to create and distribute more than 30,000 individualized digital and mailed account statements and …

A couple dozen more comments have been filed in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to prescribe rules governing the activities of debt collectors, including one that summarizes a meeting held between senior leaders from the credit and collection industry and representatives from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau following …

A bomb threat was called in yesterday to a collection agency in Wisconsin, forcing the office to be evacuated. The threat was made to an IC System office in Onalaska, Wisc. The office employs about 150 people, according to a published report. Along with evacuating the office of the collection …

A handful of more comments have been filed and published regarding the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and consumers are expanding their lead over the credit and collection industry, in terms of which side has filed the most comments. For those of you keeping score …