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CFPB Orders Toyota Motor Credit to Pay $60 Million for Illegal Lending and Credit Reporting Misconduct

Consumer Finance

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today ordered Toyota Motor Credit Corporation to pay $60 million in consumer redress and penalties for operating an illegal scheme to prevent borrowers from cancelling product bundles that increased their monthly car loan payments.

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How a bounced check can actually help your company get paid

Collections Law

It seems counterintuitive. When a business debtor writes a bad check you wouldn’t expect that it would actually be a good thing and that it could help your company collect on the debts owed to them. But that bad check opens up access to legal actions that can ensure your access to funds that can help you get paid. Our ethical debt collection attorneys at Law Offices of Alan M.

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CFPB and 11 States Order Prehired to Provide Students More than $30 Million in Relief for Illegal Student Lending Practices

Consumer Finance

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and 11 states announced today that student lender Prehired will provide more than $30 million in relief to student borrowers for making false promises of job placement, trapping students with “income share” loans that violated the law, and resorting to abusive debt collection practices when borrowers could not pay.

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Why do some people file for bankruptcy more than once?

Roths Child Law

Nobody wants to file for bankruptcy, but it happens – and some people have it happen more than once. As long as you wait the appropriate time limit between bankruptcies (which varies according to what type of bankruptcy you filed before and what type you want to file now), there’s no actual limit to the number of times you can receive a discharge of your debts.

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Solve Your Firms Automation Complexities Once and For All

Speaker: Mark Stovel

When it comes to automating, many firms focus on finding the latest tech, believing that efficiency is something achieved through new tools. Yet true efficiency is achieved by delivering real value to clients, not merely by upgraded systems. Without a clear approach, no level of automation can overcome the complexities of serving every client’s needs.

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Instant view: US Treasury increases size of most of its debt auctions

Collection Industry News

Nov 1 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday said it plans to “gradually” increase the size of most of its debt auctions in the November 2023 to January 2024 quarter and expects it will need one more additional quarter of increases after this to meet its financing needs. MARKET REACTION: U.S. Treasury yields fell after the refunding announcement.