Tag Archives: regulation
- TASC & USOBA Here It Comes. You’ve Got Nobody But Yourselves to Blame.
Lot’s of items are all coming to a head this week regarding the debt settlement industry. The debt settlement trade associations have been called, on short notice, to a hearing to be held by the U.S. Senate on April 22, 2010 where my bet is they will not be met with party favors and a [...]
- Things People Get Wrong About Credit Card Debt
Excellent article in the Washington Post titled “Five myths about America’s credit card debt.” You should read it, click here. Highlights from the article. 1. Middle-class American families have long depended on bank credit cards to manage their budgets. Not true. 2. More people have credit cards because companies got better at managing risk and [...]
- Debt Settlement Companies and Associations Hiring Washington Lobbyists to Persuade Congress
An article in The Hill talks about how the Debt Settlement industry is now hiring lobbyists to meet with members of Congress in order to make their case to continue to exist. Many states and the Federal Trade Commission have reloaded their regulatory shotguns and taken aim at rogue debt settlement companies in the past [...]
- Expert Testimony Worth Reading on H.R. 2309 the Consumer Credit Protection Act (Debt Settlement Industry Regulation)
The Consumer Credit and Protection Act was recently introduced in the House of Representatives to specifically address issues in some industries, including debt settlement. As boring as it sounds, I was actually reading the testimony of the expert witnesses at the recent committee meeting on the bill and found the segment below to be of [...]
- Debt Settlement Companies in for a World of Hurt in the U.S.
Debt settlement companies in the United States had better brace for some interesting times, and not good times for them. The Attorney General of New York recently issued subpoenas to fourteen debt settlement companies, not in an interest to learn more about them, but to give him the evidence he need to close down the [...]