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CONSUMER GROUPS PROVIDE CFPB WITH DEBT COLLECTION WISH LIST
- A coalition of 74 different consumer advocacy groups have written a joint letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, laying out a series of restrictions and prohibitions that should be included in the agency’s proposed debt collection rule, due to be issued in the next few months.
PRA GROUP ANNOUNCES NEW OFFICE, PLANS TO HIRE 500 NEW EMPLOYEES
- And here I was, thinking that Danville was just a fictional city in the Tri-State Area that was the setting for one of my favorite cartoons ever. But alas, Portfolio Recovery Associates is planning a $15 million investment in a real Danville, located in Virginia, that will bring 500 jobs to the region, it was announced yesterday.
REPORTS DETAIL HARASSING BEHAVIOR BY AGENCIES IN IRELAND, AUSTRALIA
- A couple of interesting stories related to collections from outside the United States. First, there is an Australian debt collector that has been ordered to pay $750,000 in penalties for trying to collect from two individuals, one of whom had suffered a stroke and could barely speak. The other is a report from the Irish Cancer Society that details how patients with cancer are often “harassed” by debt collectors.
REP. WATERS PLANS ON CALLING MULVANEY TO TESTIFY FOR CHOICES HE MADE WHEN RUNNING CFPB
- Just because he no longer works at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau does not mean former acting director Mick Mulvaney is off the hook with Rep. Maxine Waters [D-Calif.], who will likely be the chairperson of the House Financial Services Committee when it is gaveled into session in January.
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