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Friday, June 19, 2009

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RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC. ANNOUNCES JULY AUDITING MONTH WEBINAR SERIES
Resource Management Services, Inc. announces July Auditing Month Webinar Series Conducted by Bev Evancic, Vice President, Resource Management Services, Inc., and author of Recovery Management: Collecting the Uncollectible Account.

Resource Management Services is taking this opportunity to announce a new product offering short-subject training webinars. We're declaring July "Agency Auditing Month" and providing three short subject auditing training classes or webinars.

Travel budgets are tight, but it doesn't mean you don't need to go without training, or not be up-to-date on the latest ideas and techniques for agency management and agency auditing. July focuses on Agency Auditing with 3 webinars: July 8th - Agency Auditing 101, July 15th, Auditing Legal Efforts (Agency or Attorney) and July 22nd, Auditing Payments and Remittances. Each webinar is one hour in length, and cost is only $89. With record placements to agencies, and record bankruptcies of agencies, it just might be time for you to declare Agency Auditing Training Month for you and/or your department.

For more information go to http://www.resourcemanagement.com/training.html or click here

MASTERCARD LAUNCHES MOBILE MONEYSEND SERVICE IN US
Jun 19, 2009 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- MasterCard has launched a new person-to-person payment service called Mobile MasterCard MoneySend in the US.
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MADIGAN REACHES AGREEMENT WITH US CREDIT FIND TO PREVENT PHONE CRAMMING
Chicago - Attorney General Lisa Madigan has shut down the alleged "phone cramming" operations of a Cape Coral, Fla., credit repair company that placed unauthorized charges on the phone bills of thousands of Illinois consumers, small businesses and local governments. Through a settlement agreement reached with the Attorney General, US Credit Find and its owner, Aaron Stanz, have agreed to cease participating in the alleged deceptive practice. The settlement is the result of a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Madigan against US Credit Find in February 2009.
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ACXIOM LAUNCHES ONLINE IDENTITY CARD TO HELP BUSINESSES AND CONSUMERS CONNECT SECURELY AND EASILY
Little Rock, Ark. - June 18, 2009 - Online privacy is being made simpler and safer with the introduction of a digital identity card by Acxiom® Corporation (NASDAQ: ACXM), a global leader in interactive marketing and risk mitigation services. Acxiom announced today a beta offering for retail merchants, corporations, financial institutions and other organizations that wish to offer a privately branded identity card to their customers.
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FORECLOSURES GRIND ON AS LENDERS FAIL TO MODIFY LOANS
The Obama administration's $75 billion program to reduce foreclosures has been beset by backlogs and delays, leading many overstretched homeowners to complain about unreturned phone calls and inaccurate information from lenders, while others say they were denied help for reasons that weren't clear.
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WELLS FARGO/GALLUP SURVEY: DESPITE ECONOMIC STRESS, BUSINESS OWNERS MAINTAIN PERSONAL PURSUITS
The economy is taking a toll on the day-to-day lives of business owners, but most said they still have a balance between their work and outside interests. The latest Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index, surveyed April 1-14, shows nearly one third (31 percent) of respondents said they're working more hours than they used to. Three-quarters (76 percent) said they feel more stress due to the economy, and the majority (60 percent) said the economy has caused them to cancel or scale back vacations due to cost or to spend more time at work.
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TSYS PROVIDES TOYOTA FINANCE WITH PREPAID PAYMENTS
Columbus, Ga., June 18, 2009 - TSYS announced today the extension of its agreement with Toyota Finance Inc. to include prepaid payment and processing services. Toyota's innovative e-money product, Tressa Style Card Plus, is a reward card that can facilitate transactions as either prepaid or QUICPay contactless card payments. The card will be issued by Toyota Finance to consumers at Tressa Yokohama, a large shopping mall located in Yokohama City, Japan.
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JOBLESS RATE RISES IN NEARLY ALL STATES
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia recorded unemployment rate increases in May, the government reported Friday. One state registered a rate decrease, and one state had no rate change.
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INTERACTIVE DATA LLC & INFINITY COLLECTION SYSTEMS PARTNER TO PROVIDE TURN-KEY SOLUTIONS TO COLLECTION AGENCIES AND DEBT BUYERS
ATLANTA, GA. - Interactive Data LLC, a leading provider of integrated contact accuracy solutions and Infinity Collection Systems, a leading developer of software for collection agencies announced today the signing of a partnering agreement. Under terms of the agreement, Interactive Data will provide collection agencies and debt buyers, via the Infinity Collection System suite, the necessary tools to locate difficult-to-find debtor accounts.
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ASSET ACCEPTANCE SIGNS JOB CREATION AGREEMENT WITH MICHIGAN ECONOMIC GROWTH AUTHORITY
WARREN, Mich., /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Asset Acceptance, LLC, a subsidiary of Asset Acceptance Capital Corp. (Nasdaq: AACC), today announced that it has formally executed an agreement with the Michigan Economic Growth Authority (MEGA) to provide tax credits to the Company to support job creation at its Warren facility. Asset Acceptance is a leading purchaser and collector of charged-off consumer debt.
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S.&P. CUTS CREDIT RATINGS AT 22 BANKS, 5 TO JUNK
At 9:39 a.m. Wednesday, an operations manager in JPMorgan Chase's Tampa offices pushed a button and wired $25 billion in taxpayer money back to Washington.
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SUNTRUST MAY BUY BACK SECURITIES
Atlanta-based SunTrust Banks said Monday it is in talks with regulators that could result in the bank buying back about $500 million in auction-rate securities from investors.
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CARBIZ ACQUIRES $10 MILLION CONSUMER LOANS PORTFOLIO
CarBiz Inc., the locally based "buy here, pay here" company, has acquired the consumer notes portolio of a California company.
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DEBATE BEGINS ON OBAMA CONSUMER PROTECTION PLAN
If only someone in government had been looking out for consumers, the subprime mortgage mess might never have happened.
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FTC OBTAINS $1.7 MILLION JUDGMENT AGAINST PAYMENT PROCESSOR THAT TOOK MILLIONS FROM CONSUMERS' BANK ACCOUNTS WITHOUT THEIR AUTHORIZATION
A federal court has ordered a payment processor that debited consumers' bank accounts without their authorization to pay $1,779,000 in consumer redress and to end the illegal practice.
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FTC RAPS SEARS FOR UNLEASHING SPYWARE ON CONSUMERS
The Federal Trade Commission has finally settled with Sears on allegations from 2007 that the retailer was collecting your personal data, without warning, and warehousing it with an outside third party. Sears, of course, admitted no wrongdoing, but privacy advocates screamed loud enough that the FTC stepped in and filed a formal complaint. The company agreed to destroy the data collected and change future disclosures to reflect what they were actually doing.
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NEW AGENCY WOULD OVERSEE CREDIT CARDS, FINANCIAL SERVICES
Consumer groups hail the plan; bankers say it's overly broad
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INTERBILL MUST PAY $1.7M FOR FRAUD, JUDGE RULES
InterBill must pay $1.7 million after unfairly debiting thousands of consumer accounts for bogus "discount pharmacy cards," a federal judge in Nevada ruled.
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FTC ISSUES REDRESS CHECKS TO VICTIMS OF THE J.K. PUBLICATIONS CREDIT CARD FRAUD
The FTC, through its claims administrator, mailed more than 400,000 checks totaling over $12 million on Friday, June 12, 2009, to consumers identified as victims of an illegal credit card billing scam operated by J.K. Publications and other defendants.
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ADDITIONAL DEBT CONNECTION SYMPOSIUM AND EXPO 2009 ROUND TABLE SESSIONS ANNOUNCED
New to the DCS 2009 conference, the Wednesday Round Table sessions will include Gail Husman (DirecTV) Agency Scorecard and Performance Management", as well as Roger Knauf (DBA International) presenting a "Debt Buyers Legislative Update". In a special breakout session for Agency Owners, Mike Ginsberg (Kaulkin Ginsberg) discussing "Maximizing Your Business Value".
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AMEX CREDIT CARD CHARGE-OFFS DIP IN MAY
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Credit card charge-offs at American Express dipped slightly in May as the company benefited from selling some previously written-off customer loans, according to a regulatory filing Monday.
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The following Updates and New Entries occured since the last At A Glance was sent:

Portfolios For Sale

$1,739,860.00     Other
Glengarry Capital, LLC
http://www.debtconnection.com/portfolio.asp?724
More information about this company can be found here:
http://www.debtconnection.com/moreinfo.asp?1808

$3,772,167.00     Credit Cards
Allied Associated
http://www.debtconnection.com/portfolio.asp?723
More information about this company can be found here:
http://www.debtconnection.com/moreinfo.asp?4073

$957,565.00     Checks
Allied Associated
http://www.debtconnection.com/portfolio.asp?722
More information about this company can be found here:
http://www.debtconnection.com/moreinfo.asp?4073

$3,457,313.00     Credit Cards
Allied Associated
http://www.debtconnection.com/portfolio.asp?721
More information about this company can be found here:
http://www.debtconnection.com/moreinfo.asp?4073

$6,054,426.00     Retail
Pacific Healthcare Services
http://www.debtconnection.com/portfolio.asp?717
More information about this company can be found here:
http://www.debtconnection.com/moreinfo.asp?4057

Agency

DC CAPITAL
716-332-1818

Debt Buyers

NCSCORP
Janice Sopher
800-426-8648
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ARCHES FINANCIAL, LLC
Michael Law
804-466-2130
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DEBT ANGELS INTERNATIONAL
303-653-5466

Debt Sellers

ALLIED ASSOCIATED
Elmer Gates
404-292-7331
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PRINCIPAL RECOVERY GROUP
866-383-3024

Industry Events

NACTT 44th Annual Meeting
National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees
Marriott Copley Place
Boston, MA
July 1 - 4, 2009
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ACA Int'l's 70th Annual Convention & Expo
ACA International
Wynn Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
July 13 - 15, 2009
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Northeast Bankruptcy Conference and Consumer Forum
American Bankruptcy Institute
The Mount Washington Resort
Bretton Woods, NH
July 16 - 19, 2009
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NAFCU 42nd Annual Conference & Exhibition
National Association of Federal Credit Unions
Gaylord National on the Potomac
National Harbor, MD
July 21 - 25, 2009
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Debt Connection Symposium and Expo® 2009
Resouce Management Services, Inc.
El Conquistador Resort & Golden Door® Spa
El Conquistador, Puerto Rico
September 15 - 17, 2009
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Recovery Management Strategies & Techniques
Resouce Management Services, Inc.
Hyatt Place Ontario Mills
Ontario, CA
October 6 - 7, 2009
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Buyer/Seller 101
The Debt Marketplace, Inc.
Embassy Suites
Downey, California
October 13 - 14, 2009
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