Feb 19 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Portfolio Recovery Associates Inc, which provides fee-based debt collection services, said it would buy Norway's Aktiv Kapital AS for about $880 million to expand its ...

We’ve all heard horror stories about predatory lenders. How about predatory collection agencies? Just ask Thomas Rizzo or Gloria Morrissette, or the countless others who fell for the deliberately ...

Earnings were primarily driven by a surge in revenues, which was attributable to the continuous improvement in cash collections. Portfolio Recovery’s total revenue in the reported quarter came in at ...

A Jackson County jury has ordered a debt collection agency to cough up nearly $83 million to a woman it mistakenly pursued to collect a credit card debt of little more than $1,000. The jury found that ...

"CFPB orders are not suggestions, and companies cannot ignore them simply because they are large or dominant in the market," CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said after announcing a $24 million settlement ...

George Cooley says the debt collectors have been after him for years, despite the fact that he lives on Social Security disability and just $1,300 a month. Cooley, 66, has been making debt payments of ...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Portfolio Recovery Associates Inc. filed on Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $57.5 million in an initial public offering. The Norfolk, Va.-based ...

Detailed price information for Encore Capital Group (ECPG-Q) from The Globe and Mail including charting and trades.

Dina M. Perry vs. State of Oregon. Myriad III LLC, dba Keudell/Morrison Wealth Management vs. Windstream Communications, LLC, Paetec Communications, LLC. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC vs.

Portfolio Recovery Associates, one of the country's largest debt collectors, used deliberate ambiguity in a collection letter to try to get an Illinois consumer to pay on legally unenforceable debt, a ...

Maria Guadalupe Mejia Alcantara hopes that as a result of damages assessed against a debt collection firm as part of a counterclaim filed on her behalf, other families won’t have to suffer what she ...

Attorney General Maura Healey’s office has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with a debt collection firm she said was illegally targeting the elderly, people with disabilities and others whose ...