A debt buyer is a company, sometimes a collection agency, a private debt collection law firm, or a private investor, that purchases delinquent or charged-off...
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Encore Capital Group (category Debt buyers)
publicly traded debt buyer based in the United States. The company is headquartered in San Diego, and operates throughout the United States. The firm is...
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Midland Credit Management (category Debt buyers)
an American debt buyer and debt collection company headquartered in San Diego, California, and has offices throughout the United States as well as in...
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PRA Group (category Debt buyers)
is a publicly-traded debt buyer and debt collection company based in Norfolk, Virginia. The company buys delinquent consumer debt from credit card issuers...
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the debt, while shifting the work and risk of debt collection to the debt buyer. In the United States during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s...
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The Bond Buyer is a century-old United States daily national trade newspaper based in New York City and focused on covering the municipal bond industry...
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Asset Acceptance (category Debt buyers)
American debt buyer. Its primary business is the purchasing of defaulted debts from lenders and subsequent collection of those debts through normal debt collection...
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in which the United States dollars should be issued. These coins are both designated in the section as "legal tender" in payment of debts. The Sacagawea...
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Undue Medical Debt, formerly RIP Medical Debt, is a Long Island City–based 501(c)(3) charity focused on the elimination of personal medical debt. Founded in...
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The 2024 United States presidential election, the 60th quadrennial presidential election, is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Voters...
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of Smith v. United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stated that the taxpayer's "invocation of the Fair Debt Collection...
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Credit default swap (category United States housing bubble)
compensate the buyer in the event of a debt default (by the debtor) or other credit event. That is, the seller of the CDS insures the buyer against some...
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Sherman Financial Group, which runs one of the largest buyers of consumer debt in the United States. Despite the similar names and "nearly identical" logos...
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500 of debt and facing a winding-up order; however, they were saved by local brewer John Henry Davies, who changed their name to Manchester United in 1902...
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market for homeowners who were unable to pay their mortgage debts. In 2008 alone, the United States government allocated over $900 billion (~$1.25 trillion...
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Credit card (redirect from Revolving debt)
pays the seller, and is reimbursed by the buyer, whereas a charge card simply defers payment by the buyer until a later date.[citation needed] A credit...
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a book by anthropologist David Graeber published in 2011. It explores the historical relationship of debt with social institutions...
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Subprime mortgage crisis (redirect from United States subprime mortgage crisis)
ratings meant higher earnings – and accurately rating the debt for the benefit of the debt buyer/investors – who provided zero revenue to the agencies. Despite...
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2008–2011 bank failures in the United States 2008–09 Keynesian resurgence 2010 United States foreclosure crisis United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011 List...
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The history of the United States dollar began with moves by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America to establish a national currency based...
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savings to pay its debt while warning that those savings would eventually be exhausted. To prevent such a scenario, the United States Congress enacted a...
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Below is a list of notable defunct restaurants of the United States. Arthur Treacher's fish and chips, one location remains Aunt Jemima's Kitchen Big...
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of the United States Bankruptcy Code (Title 11 of the United States Code) permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States. Such reorganization...
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Mortgage (redirect from Mortgage debt)
interest rate and encourage buyers. Homeowners can also take out equity loans in which they receive cash for a mortgage debt on their house. Shared appreciation...
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of Sherman Financial Group, LLC, one of the largest buyers of consumer debt in the United States, and the owner of Credit One Bank, a bank specializing...
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Second mortgage (section United States)
portion of the outstanding debt owed by the buyer. Hence, the option of opening a second mortgage is specifically applicable to buyers who have insufficient...
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Loan-to-value ratio (section United States)
appraiser, but a better measure is an arms-length transaction between a willing buyer and a willing seller. Typically, banks will utilize the lesser of the appraised...
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time of sale, or remitted as use tax by buyers of taxable items who did not pay sales tax. The United States imposes tariffs or customs duties on the...
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In the United States, the automotive industry began in the 1890s and, as a result of the size of the domestic market and the use of mass production, rapidly...
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Public company (redirect from Publicly traded company (United States))
particular states and so have associations and formal designations, which are distinct and separate in the polity in which they reside. In the United States, for...
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