Debt collection

A TransUnion analysis found that prior evictions and rental-related collection records are highly predictive of future evictions.

Taiwan-based computer hardware maker ASUSTeK Computer Inc. agreed to settle FTC charges that critical security flaws in its routers put the home networks of hundreds of thousands of consumers at risk.

A bill passed by the Wisconsin state legislature last week alters consumer law to ease regulations for debt collectors.

A recent story published by media in Houston stated that a Texas man had been arrested for failing to pay his student loan debts. In fact, the man, Paul Aker, was arrested for failing to appear in court.

Many consumers expecting a tax refund this year will use it to pay down debt or save the money, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual Tax Returns Survey.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's use of enforcement actions to try and make broad changes to the auto lending market is fragmenting the industry further and potentially limiting a consumer's ability to negotiate for a lower interest rate.

Wisconsin lawmakers are reviewing a plan to send Milwaukee County’s debt to the state’s Department of Revenue for collection.

An estimated 6,200 accounts at Western Missouri Medical Center in Warrensburg, Mo. were inadvertently sent to a collection agency because of a computer glitch.

Banks are still holding on to scores of delinquent mortgages that date to the real estate crash, but a surge in home values across the country is motivating them to move the most troublesome loans off their books more quickly.

A group of defendants have settled FTC charges that they provided scammers with hundreds of thousands of consumers’ sensitive personal information – including Social Security and bank account numbers.