A debt buyer is a firm that purchases debt from another company, usually a creditor or bank, at a deeply discounted rate. The debt purchaser then attempts to collect the debt through its own operations or through the use of a third-party debt collection agency. Some debt buyers may sell all or part of the debt to another party at a profit. Most debt buyers are small and privately held, though there is a handful of publicly traded debt buying companies. Recent changes in law and legal rulings have seen the debt buying industry regulated like collection agencies, or servicers of debt, rather than creditors, or owners of the debt. Debt buyers must adhere to the FDCPA.
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Encore Capital Reports Gains in Income, Revenue and Collections in Q2
2 August 2011
ACA International Requests Comment on Governance Structure
2 August 2011
Portfolio Recovery Associates Continues Track Record of Hiring in the USA
1 August 2011
Asset Acceptance Reports Sharp Earnings Rise in Second Quarter
29 July 2011
Portfolio Recovery Breaks All Kinds of Records with Q2 Results
29 July 2011
Asta Funding to Report Third Quarter Results of Fiscal Year 2011 August 4
29 July 2011
Collection Agencies Having Tough Time Collecting, But Satisfying Clients
27 July 2011
VION Receivable Investments Purchases Land-Secured Loan Portfolio
27 July 2011
SquareTwo Financial Goes Live with Oracle Engineered Systems
26 July 2011
Executive Change: Kristin Dougherty to Unifund as VP of Sales and Marketing
22 July 2011
Maryland Freezes 900 Debt Collection Lawsuits
21 July 2011
Encore Capital Named to S&P SmallCap 600 Index
21 July 2011
Tennessee Representative Wants to Amend the FDCPA (and not necessarily in the industry's favor)
20 July 2011
Credit Card Debt Buying Market Showing Signs of Life
20 July 2011
Mark Neeb Confirmed as President of ACA International
19 July 2011
Executive Change: Encore Capital Appoints New Global Operations Vice President
19 July 2011
Portfolio Recovery Associates to Announce Second Quarter 2011 Results on July 28
19 July 2011
Blackford Capital Acquires Medical Debt Buyer Key Health Medical Solutions, Inc.
19 July 2011
Executive Change: Portfolio Recovery Associates Appoints Tara Privette SVP, Core Operations
18 July 2011
Wall Street Journal Explores the Geography of Debt Collection
18 July 2011
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