A debt buyer is a firm that purchases debt from another company, usually a creditor or bank, at a deeply discounted rate. The debt purchaser then attempts to collect the debt through its own operations or through the use of a third-party debt collection agency. Some debt buyers may sell all or part of the debt to another party at a profit. Most debt buyers are small and privately held, though there is a handful of publicly traded debt buying companies. Recent changes in law and legal rulings have seen the debt buying industry regulated like collection agencies, or servicers of debt, rather than creditors, or owners of the debt. Debt buyers must adhere to the FDCPA.
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Small Firms Have a Role in Big Healthcare Portfolio Sales
25 October 2007
Hospitals Eye Tenet Portfolio Sale as They Mull Packaging Debt
22 October 2007
UK Debt Purchaser IPO Put on Hold, But Optimism Reigns
19 October 2007
Debt Purchaser Sues Hospital Over $1.9 billion Portfolio
18 October 2007
West Reports Increase in Revenue for Collection Unit
18 October 2007
Debt Resolve Will Not Seek Further Portfolio Purchases
10 October 2007
UK Debt Purchaser Lowell Group on the Block
10 October 2007
Asta Whittling Down $7 billion Portfolio
8 October 2007
UK Debt Purchaser Passes $100 million Revenue Mark
3 October 2007
DiGennaro Puts Collins Focus on 'Technology, Compliance, and Integrity?
25 September 2007
Sherman Management Pays $519 million for 37% of Firm
24 September 2007
Encore Capital to Cut Jobs, Exit Healthcare Sector
18 September 2007
Target Could Sell $7 Billion Card Portfolio: Report
12 September 2007
Patient Relations Central to Healthcare Debt Sales
10 September 2007
Investors Put 32% of Sherman Financial Up for Sale
6 September 2007
MGIC and Radian Deal Off, Sherman Impact Unclear
5 September 2007
Encore Capital Raises Control Trigger
30 August 2007
New OSI Portfolio Head Sees Big Growth Ahead
27 August 2007
UK Debt Collectors? Workload Triples
20 August 2007
Contrax Releases Web-based Post Sale Support System for Debt Buyers
17 August 2007