As we all took our first pass at reading through the 653-page-long release of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (Bureau or CFPB) final debt collection rule, most of our eyes immediately went to sections that cause complexity in implementation and practicality. That's a natural reaction for a businessperson trying to identify how to comply with as robust a regulation such as this. However, it's also important to take a step back and look at the rule as a whole. Doing so, it's impossible to ignore the many things that the Bureau got right. Below is a list of just a few.
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