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By David N. Anthony on April 23, 2025 Posted in All Entries, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), FCRA, FDCPA, State Attorneys General, CFPB + FTC, TCPA According to a recent report by WebRecon, court filings under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the Telephone Consumer…

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Landlords are turning to a hardball tactic to go after their tenants in rent disputes: tanking their credit scores. When David Murray moved out of his St. Louis apartment two months early, he thought he had settled up by giving…

Canadian drivers are racking up over a million-dollars-a-year in unpaid tolls, penalties and other fees on Port Authority crossings in New York and New Jersey, according to documents reviewed by The Post. The Port Authority of New York and New…

Technology adoption and potential regulatory changes will be top of mind for collections agencies for 2025. Technology will help increase agency efficiency and increase collections. And potential regulatory changes could result in substantial changes to the collections landscape. Here is a brief look…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is working to prevent unlawful debt collection targeting consumers at their workplace. The regulator said in a Thursday (Jan. 2) blog post that it continues to crack down on companies that harass consumers, pointing to actions it took in 2014 and 2018 against…

A sharp rise in mortgage interest rates toward the end of December took its toll on mortgage demand, hitting just as the housing market entered its typically slowest stretch of the year. Total mortgage application volume for the two weeks…

The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $540,000 in refunds to consumers who paid a group of abusive debt collectors who threatened consumers with lawsuits or arrest if they failed to pay debt that they might not have even…

It was a record-breaking fundraising campaign: Vice President Kamala Harris raised more than $1bn in less than four months, during which she strove to win the US presidency, after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race in July. Now, as the dust…

WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) – The U.S. budget deficit jumped nearly four-fold to $257 billion in October, a figure inflated by one-off factors, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday in a report that started off a new fiscal year with…