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Sen. Mitch McConnell [R-Ky.] yesterday filed a cloture motion on the nomination of Kathy Kraninger to be the next director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, which makes it appear as though the entire Senate will vote on her confirmation when it returns from its Thanksgiving break. A cloture …

Minneapolis, MN — November 15, 2018 — DCM Services, LLC (DCMS) the industry leader in estate and specialty account recovery solutions, announced today the promotion of Martha Hanson to Chief Compliance Officer/Senior Counsel. Hanson, who most recently served as Director of Compliance/Senior Counsel, will continue to ensure the company meets …

A group of 21 trade associations from the mortgage and housing industries have sent a letter to the leadership in the Senate and the Senate Banking Committee urging the confirmation of Kathy Kraninger to be the next director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. Kraninger has already been confirmed …

ConServe has announced it plans to hire 200 additional employees to help manage the company’s contract to collect on unpaid tax bills owed to the Internal Revenue Service. The hires will be staffed in offices in Erie County, New York, which includes Buffalo, and Henrietta, New York, which is a …

PHOENIX, Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — BillingTree®, the payment problem solvers™, today announced the expanded integration of text based billing and payments within the CareView™ and Payrazr® Platforms, rebranding the offering ‘BillingTree SMS™’. The mobile billing solution now available as part of the BillingTree CareView and Payrazr platforms can also be adopted …

Is Mick Mulvaney, the acting director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, an alligator? HBO’s John Oliver seems to think so. Oliver spent most of his latest episode of “Last Week Tonight” assessing how little President Trump has followed through on his promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington, …

A legal aid group in New York that helps individuals being sued by debt collectors is going to be receiving a check for $170,000 as a result of the funds left over in a class-action settlement. The Civil Legal Advice and Resource Office, or Claro as it is more commonly known …

Performant Financial Corp. lost less money in the third quarter of 2018, compared with the same amount a year ago, according to the company, which released its quarterly financial statements on Friday. A drop of $8 million in student loan revenue was nearly offset by an increase of nearly $5 …

As part of our mission the Law Offices of Daniel C. Consuegra, P.L. is committed to giving back. As such the firm supports worthy causes that could use our help. This year the firm was a sponsor at the Tampa Bay Area Credit Union Kids Golf Classic to benefit the …

Do student loan rehabilitations cause more problems than they solve? That is the question that one published report attempts to prove true by profiling a school teacher who graduated college in 2000 with $35,000 in student loans, saw that increase to $55,000 when he defaulted on them, and now owe …