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	<title>insideARM &#187; Patrick Lunsford</title>
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		<title>Debt Collection Bills Advance in Western States</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two bills in major Western U.S. states aimed at reining in debt collection practices have recently advanced in their respective legislative chambers. One targets debt buyers specifically while the other is designed to more tightly control debt collectors working for government clients.]]></description>
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		<title>CFPB Launches Spanish Language Web Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) this week announced the launch of a site designed to provide Spanish-speaking Americans with “clear, unbiased information about financial products and services.”]]></description>
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		<title>Another Large UK Debt Collection Deal: Lowell Group Acquires Interlaken Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debt Buying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Collection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lowell Group, a leading purchaser of non-performing consumer debt portfolios in the United Kingdom, today announced the acquisition of Interlaken Group, including its widely known Fredrickson International brand. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, will see ownership of the Surrey-based debt collection agencies group transfer to Lowell Group, along with the 300 plus employees.]]></description>
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		<title>Americans with an Account in Third Party Collections Hits All-Time High&#8230;Again</title>
		<link>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/banks-and-credit-grantors/auto-finance-receivables/americans-with-an-account-in-third-party-collections-hits-all-time-high-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auto Finance Receivables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Credit Grantors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Buying]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage Collections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second straight quarter, the percentage of Americans with at least one account in the third party debt collection system hit an all-time high in the first three months of 2013. Close to 15 percent of consumers have an account being worked by debt collectors.]]></description>
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		<title>UK ARM Giant Cabot Sold in Private Equity Deal</title>
		<link>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/debt-buying-topics/debt-buying/uk-arm-giant-cabot-sold-in-private-equity-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debt Buying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Collection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AnaCap Financial Partners LLP, a specialist European financial services private equity firm, announced Wednesday the sale of Cabot Credit Management (CCM) to funds managed and advised by J.C. Flowers &#038; Co. LLC. The transaction agreements have been signed, and the transaction is expected to complete imminently.]]></description>
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		<title>UK Debt Collector Liquidates As Part of NCO Acquisition</title>
		<link>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/debt-collection-news/debt-collection/uk-debt-collector-liquidates-as-part-of-nco-acquisition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BPO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A debt collection agency in the United Kingdom is going into voluntary liquidation as a part of its integration with NCO Europe, a Preston, Lancashire-based unit of NCO Group.

Complete Credit Management (CCM) will dissolve and be absorbed by NCO Europe.]]></description>
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		<title>California Sues JPMorgan Chase Over Debt Collection Lawsuits</title>
		<link>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/credit-card-accounts-receivable/credit-card-receivables/california-sues-jpmorgan-chase-over-debt-collection-lawsuits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collection Law Firms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collection Laws and Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Credit Card Receivables]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[California Attorney General Kamala Harris Thursday announced that her office has filed an enforcement action against JPMorgan Chase &#038; Co. alleging that the bank engaged in fraudulent and unlawful debt-collection practices against tens of thousands of Californians.

The suit alleges that Chase engaged in widespread robo-signing of court documents in debt collection cases, among other practices, to commit abuses against approximately 100,000 California credit card borrowers over at least a three-year period.]]></description>
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		<title>Encore Capital Group Announces Record Financial Results and Expanded Credit Facility</title>
		<link>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/debt-buying-topics/debt-buying/encore-capital-group-announces-record-financial-results-and-expanded-credit-facility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/debt-buying-topics/debt-buying/encore-capital-group-announces-record-financial-results-and-expanded-credit-facility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Debt Buying]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Debt buyer Encore Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECPG) late Thursday announced consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013.]]></description>
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		<title>Newspaper Pushes for Restrictions on Bad Check Collection</title>
		<link>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/govt-receivables/municipal-receivables/newspaper-pushes-for-restrictions-on-bad-check-collection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collection Laws and Regulations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Government Receivables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Municipal Receivables]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe’s editorial page today is advocating for legislative restrictions in the relationships between local district attorneys and private debt collection agencies used to recover bad check debt. The core issue is not that DAs use debt collectors, it’s that many step away from the process and outsource their “prosecutorial discretion” to the companies.]]></description>
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		<title>Town Looking for Collection Agency to Help with Debt</title>
		<link>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/govt-receivables/municipal-receivables/town-looking-for-collection-agency-to-help-with-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Receivables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Municipal Receivables]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The East Pennsboro Township (Pa.) Board of Commissioners is currently accepting bids from debt collection agencies to go after money owed to the town, according to local paper The Sentinel.]]></description>
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