When Bianca Jones, a 33-year-old special education teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, decided a couple of years ago that she ...

Using a CFPB database of credit card terms and conditions, Johnson learned that his creditors were required to use ...

Debt collectors rarely disappear on their own. Old balances can be sold, resold, and pursued in different ways for years, ...

Three of the country’s four city councils have turned to courts in a bid to recover about K40 billion in unpaid property rates arrears after sealing premises of non-compliant developers. In separate ...

The portrait that had been portrayed of her was going to stay that way unless she did something about it,” Dini von Mueffling ...

After learning her mother took out $200,000 of debt in her name, Kristen Collier felt betrayed. Her new book traces how it ...

Discover how a Certified Consumer Debt Specialist can aid in debt relief and negotiation. Learn about their certification, benefits, and impact on your finances.

We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. Debt sales happen more often than borrowers realize, though, and they ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Nearly 71 million Americans have debts that have gone into collections. So, what do you do if a collector calls? Don't panic, Nina Pineda has your consumer bill of rights. One of ...

New information from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on debt collection calls shows they are spiking. Almost 280,000 people nationally have complained in the last year about them, and at least 41% ...

The Federal Trade Commission logged over 140,000 consumer complaints about debt collection in the second quarter — a 220% jump from the same period a year earlier. Georgia, Texas and Florida recorded ...

Artificial intelligence offers debt collection companies the opportunity to vastly improve margins while achieving higher levels of regulatory compliance and maximizing scalability, writes Ohad Samet, ...