Hi all, Chris Deatherage here, the newly-deemed Duke of the TCPAWorld. A lot of you folks know me from the industry, but don’t worry I’m not going to bore you with my background or life story. Instead, I’m going to bore you with the following disclaimer:
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On September 26, Representative French Hill (R-AR) introduced new legislation, H.R. 8985, also known as the Credit Access and Inclusion Act of 2022, to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act and allow payment information for utility bills and phone payments to be furnished to credit reporting agencies to help consumers raise their credit scores. This is an effort to address an issue highlighted by the CFPB Office of Research that estimated 26 million Americans are “credit invisible,” meaning they do not have a credit history with any of the three national credit reporting agencies.
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For a lot of lenders, especially newer fintechs, who have spent the last two years originating loans and lines of credit, the obvious collections strategy solution to the challenge of an influx of charged-off or delinquent accounts is to use third-party collections agencies to handle delinquent and charged-off accounts.
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