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Market Update: Accounts Receivable Management Industry - Spring 2009
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PDF Brief: 8 Pages
Published: Spring 2009
The Accounts Receivable Management industry has been feeling the pressure of a long and broad recession like most other businesses in the U.S.
Although enjoying a temporary and expected respite from lower collection rates due to tax return season in the first quarter of 2009, collection agencies and debt buyers have been hurt by consumers facing soaring unemployment and declining home equity values. Coupled with a lending environment that is unfavorable for the acquisition of deployable capital, the first quarter provided many challenges for even the best-managed ARM firms.
This brief provides a digestible snapshot of 4 key areas of interest to leaders of ARM businesses and those who supply or invest in them, including:
- Economic Indicators - The latest stats on home prices, consumer bankruptcy, and unemployment and their affect on ARM
- Industry Confidence - How credit and debt collection professionals are currently feeling about their own performance and the performance of their vendors, and their outlook for the future
- Market Trends - Current actions being taken in the areas of debt buying, legal collection strategy, etc.
- Merger & Acquisition Activity - How many transactions are taking place, by whom, and at what multiples
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