Katabat

JANUARY 5, 2021

January 5, 2021, Wilmington, DE – Katabat, a leading global provider of debt management software solutions for lenders, fintechs, and collection agencies, announced today that it has acquired Simplicity Collection Software of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Fico Collections

JANUARY 18, 2023

Top 5 Debt Collection Posts of 2022: Crisis and Opportunity. As more people enter the collections queue due to rising costs and economic wobbles, our collections experts share their tips for early collections, digital approaches and more. Here are the top five posts from 2022 on debt collection trends. FICO Admin.

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Fico Collections

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Telecommunication businesses are fighting hard with acquisition campaigns in a bid to win more trust, more business and new customers. Telcos and the Need for Risk-Aware Persona-Based Acquisition. Smart Contracting, Faster Acquisition and Consumer-Initiated Pre-Qualification. Wed, 09/28/2022 - 15:25. But it’s all about trust.

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Fico Collections

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Any lender that is fast to act in supporting customers is likely to win and retain a competitive advantage over less well-informed market peers. Regulators have been pressing for banks and lenders to ensure they’re working at the speed and scale of their market — or even faster. A cloud-based platform is vital.

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Fico Collections

MAY 11, 2021

Unable to pinpoint the sources of rapidly growing credit losses, lenders broadly and dramatically restricted access to credit by reducing new account originations, cutting unutilized exposure, and intensifying collections practices, often to the detriment of long-term growth, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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True Accord

AUGUST 11, 2022

August 14 is National Financial Awareness Day , making it an appropriate time to shine a spotlight on initiatives that can help improve consumer financial awareness in the collections space. As reported by the Milken Institute , only about 57% of the American population is considered financially literate.

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Fico Collections

MAY 11, 2021

Unable to pinpoint the sources of rapidly growing credit losses, lenders broadly and dramatically restricted access to credit by reducing new account originations, cutting unutilized exposure, and intensifying collections practices, often to the detriment of long-term growth, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Fico Collections

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As seen during the Great Recession, lenders again applied broad-based responses to manage the anticipated delinquency and loss impacts, this time making much heavier investment of payment accommodations such as forbearance and deferral programs across multiple consumer asset classes.

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Fico Collections

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Building portfolio risk resilience into Collections & Recovery. Properly managed and strategized, the debt collections process can be an effective customer service asset and anti-attrition tool, in addition to being its classic role in portfolio risk management. Addressing Portfolio Risk in Economic Uncertainty: Part 4 (2022).

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Jimerson Firm

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Sometimes, foreclosure of a commercial property is the only option available to lenders and servicers to limit losses as a result of defaults on hotel and restaurant mortgages. Parts 1-4 of this series discussed pre-foreclosure options available to lenders dealing with hotel/restaurant mortgage defaults. 702.015(4) , Fla.

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Fico Collections

JULY 6, 2021

Properly managed, the debt collections process can be an effective customer service and anti-attrition tool. Such events cast many borrowers into uncomfortable territory, creating what may be a defining moment in the relationship between them and their lenders. penetration rate) of live-agent contact calls (Figure 1). IVR) contacts?

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Troutman Sanders

MARCH 22, 2021

OppFi) — a Chicago-based platform lender — announced that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is investigating its compliance with the Military Lending Act. Indeed, in February 2021, Venmo, a mobile money transfer service, disclosed that the CFPB is investigating its collection practices.

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Collection Industry News

AUGUST 30, 2021

billion credit card portfolio from Synchrony Bank, as the British lender seeks to grow its U.S. WALMART, GAP WILL DEBUT GAP-BRANDED HOME COLLECTION. The acquisition, which Barclays said is being financed from its existing resources, is estimated to reduce the bank’s core capital ratio by around 20 basis points. Source: site.

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Fico Collections

JUNE 8, 2023

Steve is an industry thought leader who had previously served as TrueCar’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, and AutoTrader.com’s Vice President of Product Management and Business Development, overseeing the acquisitions of vAuto, Kelley Blue Book, HomeNet Automotive, VinSolutions and DealerScience. Steve: 100%.

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Collection Industry News

JULY 4, 2022

Notably, companies licensed as lenders under the California Financing Law (CFL), or that hold other enumerated licenses under the California Consumer Protection Law are exempt from these regulations and the reporting requirements when acting under the authority of the held license.

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Fico Collections

AUGUST 10, 2022

It is one of the biggest challenges lenders face over the next few years. Lenders could no longer base decisions simply on a customer’s history of repaying. Lenders have refined and improved their affordability models over the years in adherence to regulatory requirements. Affordability is top of mind.

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Fico Collections

JULY 15, 2022

in 1989, it meant lenders of all sizes could leverage the technology of scoring and open up credit to consumers that they might not have lent to in the past. It means integrating new technologies into lenders workflows and operations. Hundreds of lenders in the U.S. When the FICO® Scores were introduced in the U.S.

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Fico Collections

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Successfully devising Next Best Actions / Next Best Offers is a win-win for lender and customer alike. Regardless of the channel or product, providing the customer with the right offer or service at the right time via the right channel, can all be determined by analysing their behaviour with the different products they have with the lender.

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Collection Industry News

JANUARY 24, 2022

On January 18, the CFPB filed a proposed final judgment against an Illinois-based third-party payment processor BrightSpeed Solutions and its founder Kevin Howard (collectively, “defendants”), which ceased operations almost three years ago, settling claims that the defendants facilitated payments for telemarketing fraudsters targeting seniors.

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Katabat

AUGUST 5, 2020

The investment provides Katabat with significant resources to expand and enhance its industry-leading suite of debt collection products. Katabat is a recognized global leader in cloud-based debt collection managed service software products. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Re:Ceeve

JUNE 23, 2020

Banks seem to be lagging with their approach towards collections by relying on phone calls and letters. Despite there being an abundance of options presented through technology, one of the biggest challenges in addressing NPLs is the lack of flexibility in current banking collections strategies. Outdated operations.

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Fico Collections

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Lenders must adopt a similar mindset as they manage the financial health of their consumer lending portfolios to insulate their existing assets from potential portfolio risk volatility. Pre-Delinquent Collections – Accelerate collections efforts at the missed payment due for customers who are deemed sensitive based on FICO® Resilience Index.

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Fico Collections

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Many journeys (both acquisition and servicing) are now well-established in the digital channel and customers have adopted them at an accelerated rate out of necessity during lockdowns. This data can be used by all areas of the bank that interact with customers, from marketing and customer service to risk management and collections.

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Fico Collections

MARCH 8, 2021

That’s why FICO has been focused on finding new ways to demonstrate responsible financial behavior so that lenders can confidently extend credit to more consumers. . Over the past several years, we’ve helped lenders develop on-ramps to mainstream credit using alternative data for those seeking financial inclusion.

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Fico Collections

JUNE 11, 2021

Lenders must adopt a similar mindset as they manage the health of their consumer lending portfolios to insulate their existing book of business from potential risk volatility. Pre-Delinquent Collections – Accelerate collections efforts at the missed payment due for customers who are deemed sensitive based on FICO® Resilience Index.

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Fico Collections

JANUARY 8, 2021

In this category, COVID-19 was a pressing topic but didn’t dominate the discussion as it did in the Debt Collection & Recovery category. FICO’s suite of interconnected Acquisition, Origination, and Growth capabilities for Telecommunications helps organizations do exactly that. Here are our top 5 posts from 2020. #1.

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Collection Industry News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Rite Aid also said lenders agreed to extend $3.45 Amazon closed its acquisition of primary-care provider One Medical in a $3.9 The post Rite Aid files for bankruptcy amid slowing sales, opioid litigation appeared first on Collection Industry News. billion deal earlier this year and acquired online pharmacy PillPack in 2018.

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Better Credit Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It also means that they have opened a collections account on your credit report. Having collection accounts on your credit score is incredibly damaging to your credit health. Future lenders are able to see any collection accounts on your credit report and can deny you loans based on your history.

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Collection Industry News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The six largest lenders in the United States (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley) made a combined $29.42 The lender set aside $370 million to cover the uncertainties affecting the economy, while net interest income grew 6% to $18.5 Citigroup Citigroup had profits of $3.5

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Consumer Financial Services Law

MAY 10, 2017

The consumer alleged BoA was a debt collector under the FDCPA because his “loan was in default prior to the transfer from his original lender Countrywide to Bank of America.” The acquisition by merger was a key factor for the court which also relied upon prior Fifth Circuit precedent, Brown v. Bank of America, N.A., Morris , 243 Fed.

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Collection Industry News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Owners of Britain’s largest malls, skyscrapers and industrial hubs face hikes in borrowing costs and a recession that could depress prices by up to a fifth, forcing lenders and investors to reassess their appetite for commercial property. HSBC (HSBA.L) But the government’s Sept.

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Fico Collections

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Building portfolio risk resilience into customer acquisition. During the highly uncertain time of the Great Recession, most lenders shifted management strategies by raising FICO® Score cut-offs significantly to achieve the same overall portfolio risk management profile for accepted applicants. FICO Admin. Thu, 12/19/2019 - 16:29.

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Better Credit Blog

AUGUST 7, 2020

This means that USCB America has opened a collections account on your credit report and is attempting to collect payment. Having collection accounts on your credit score is incredibly damaging to your credit health. They specialize in debt collection on behalf of hospitals and other companies in the healthcare industry.

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Troutman Sanders

MAY 5, 2022

Summarized below are those issues identified in the areas of auto servicing, consumer reporting, credit card account management, debt collection, deposits, mortgage origination, prepaid accounts, remittances, and student loan servicing. Debt Collection. Auto Servicing. The CFPB sees wrongful repossessions everywhere.

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Better Credit Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

The agency also uses aggressive tactics to collect on debts, which can add stress to an already nerve-wracking situation. That’s because Cavalry isn’t actually a lender or service provider. Instead, it’s an agency that purchases debts from companies, for pennies on the dollar, then collects payments from debtors.

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Better Credit Blog

AUGUST 22, 2020

CCS Offices is a company that collects debts on behalf of original creditor. They do this by either purchasing the debt or collecting the payments and taking a portion for themselves. To do this, they must first open an account on your credit report that shows that they are authorized to collect on the debt. What is CCS Offices?

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Better Credit Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

Collection accounts can hurt your credit score even after you pay off the debt. These entries remain on your credit report for up to seven years, which means that they can be viewed by creditors and lenders. Capio Partners is a medium-sized debt collection agency that is headquartered in Sherman, TX. What is Capio Partners?

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