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		<title>Debt Collection Bills Advance in Western States</title>
		<link>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/credit-card-accounts-receivable/charge-off/debt-collection-bills-advance-in-western-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charge-off]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collection Laws and Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Buying]]></category>
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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>Small Claims Courts are Not Judicial Districts Subject to Section 1692i of FDCPA</title>
		<link>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/debt-collection-news/debt-collection/small-claims-courts-are-not-judicial-districts-subject-to-section-1692i-of-fdcpa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Council</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collection Law Firms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A United States District Court recently concluded that certain states' judicial structures provide that the Circuit Courts are considered “judicial districts” for purposes of the required venue provisions in the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1692i, but township small claims courts are not.]]></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>
		<comments>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/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<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 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>
		<comments>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/debt-collection-news/debt-collection/uk-debt-collector-liquidates-as-part-of-nco-acquisition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BPO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Collection]]></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>CFPB Returns Focus to Debt Collection: CFPB in Action</title>
		<link>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/debt-collection-news/debt-collection/cfpb-returns-focus-to-debt-collection-cfpb-in-action/</link>
		<comments>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/debt-collection-news/debt-collection/cfpb-returns-focus-to-debt-collection-cfpb-in-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Eidelman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CFPB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collection Laws and Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been very busy lately, of course. Most of its attention seems to be focused on various sectors of the consumer finance industry. But the agency did recently reveal its intention to return some focus to the debt collection industry.]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/credit-card-accounts-receivable/credit-card-receivables/california-sues-jpmorgan-chase-over-debt-collection-lawsuits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collection Law Firms]]></category>
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		<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>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>
		<comments>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/govt-receivables/municipal-receivables/newspaper-pushes-for-restrictions-on-bad-check-collection/#comments</comments>
		<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>
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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>Sen. Elizabeth Warren Introduces Bill to Slash Student Loan Interest Rates</title>
		<link>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/featured-post/sen-elizabeth-warren-introduces-bill-to-slash-student-loan-interest-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/featured-post/sen-elizabeth-warren-introduces-bill-to-slash-student-loan-interest-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Department of Education Collections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In her first standalone bill introduced in the U.S. Senate, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) offered a bill Wednesday that would slash the interest charged to federal student loan borrowers to the same rate paid by financial institutions.

The bill is a preemptive solution to a student loan interest rate hike expected in July.]]></description>
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		<title>Are Debt Collectors Missing a Chance to be &#8220;Inside&#8221; the CFPB?</title>
		<link>http://www.insidearm.com/opinion/are-debt-collectors-missing-a-chance-to-be-inside-the-cfpb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.insidearm.com/opinion/are-debt-collectors-missing-a-chance-to-be-inside-the-cfpb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 16:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Eidelman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CFPB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collection Laws and Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Credit Grantors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CFPB has three advisory boards that steer its thinking on financial regulation: one that is comprised of consumer advocates (naturally) and two made up of small banking interests. There is no board for large financial institutions.

There is also no advisory board for other companies, like debt collection agencies. An article in the Washington Post partially explains why. But still: how can the industry gain credibility and influence when other similarly sized industries seem better positioned?]]></description>
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		<title>Could a Credit Scoring Change Benefit Debt Collectors?</title>
		<link>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/debt-collection-news/debt-collection/could-a-credit-scoring-change-benefit-debt-collectors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.insidearm.com/daily/debt-collection-news/debt-collection/could-a-credit-scoring-change-benefit-debt-collectors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 15:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lunsford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collection Laws and Regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collection Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medical Debt Collection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Receivables]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times ran a feature-length piece Friday on how a prominent credit scoring service is treating collection accounts. The new scoring formula benefits consumers, but it could also present ARM companies with an opportunity and another tool to use in their collection efforts.]]></description>
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