Almost five years after entering into an administrative consent order with Encore Capital Group, Inc., Midland Funding, LLC, Midland Credit Management, Inc., and Asset Acceptance Capital Corp. (collectively, “Defendants”) to resolve claims relating to the Defendants’ debt collection practices, the CFPB, on September 8, 2020, filed a five count complaint (the “Complaint”) in a California federal district court against the alleging that the Defendants’ collection and other practices violated the FDCPA, the CFPA, and the terms of the consent order.… Continue Reading
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Debt collection litigation: More documents or more face-to-face?
By Trevor R. Salter on
Industry representatives and consumer advocates collectively lamented the high non-appearance rate of debtors in court in debt collection cases at yesterday’s joint FTC-CFPB roundtable on the debt collection industry. The non-appearance rate is around 90% according to most observers, as reported in the FTC’s report on debt collection litigation, Repairing A Broken System.… Continue Reading
Debt collectors and debt buyers obtain temporary reprieve from CFPB supervision
By Alan S. Kaplinsky on
Posted in Debt Collection, Regulatory and Enforcement
On Monday, the CFPB issued its final rule defining larger participants of a market for consumer reporting. It acted pursuant to Section 1024 of Dodd-Frank which grants the CFPB the authority to supervise non-bank covered persons for compliance with Federal consumer financial laws. Dodd-Frank automatically gave the CFPB the authority to supervise non-bank covered persons in the residential mortgage, private education lending and payday lending industries.… Continue Reading