ACA International  - The Association of Credit and Collection Professionals

The Association of Credit and Collection Professionals is an international trade organization of credit and debt collection professionals that provides a variety of accounts receivable management like debt recovery and commercial debt collection services to over one million credit grantors. Headquartered in Minneapolis, ACA serves members in the United States, Canada and 55 other countries worldwide.

Association of Financial Professionals

The Association for Financial Professionals in Bethesda, Maryland, supports more than 14,000 individual members from a wide range of industries i.e. Collection Agencies and debt collection agencies throughout all stages of their careers in various aspects of treasury and financial management.  AFP is the preferred resource for financial professionals for continuing education, financial tools and publications, career development, certifications, research, representation to legislators and regulators, and the development of industry standards.

Consumer Data Industry Association

The Consumer Data Industry Association is an international trade association, founded in 1906, that represents consumer information companies that provide fraud prevention and risk management products, credit and mortgage reports, tenant and employment screening services, check fraud and verification services, and collection agencies.

CDIA represents the consumer credit reporting information industry before state and federal legislators. It also represents the industry before the media in consumer credit reporting matters.

CDIA sets industry standards and provides business and professional education for its members. It also provides educational materials for consumers regarding their credit rights and how consumer credit reporting agencies can better serve their needs.

Membership: 500 American credit reporting agencies, mortgage reporting companies, Commercial Debt Collection, check services companies, tenant screening companies and employment reporting companies.

 

Industry: One billion credit cards are in use in the United States today. A similar number of consumer credit reports are issued annually in the United States. Two billion pieces of data are entered monthly into credit records. Each of the consumer credit reporting systems--Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion--maintains 190 million credit files, which are used by independent credit reporting agencies across the United States.

CDIA's Mission Statement: To provide high value services that will enable consumer credit, mortgage, and other specialized reporting services and collection agency services to operate successfully and serve the needs of consumers, business, and government.

Credit Managers Association

The Credit Managers Association mission is to be the leading resource for credit and financial management and debt collection agencies by providing information, products and services for effective accounts receivable management and debt recovery by promoting professional education and development. To accomplish this, CMA provides a full array of benefits and services that extend from providing education and credit reports, to professional debt collections and adjustment services for the more distressed debtor.

Credit Research Foundation

The Credit Research Foundation is an independent, member-run organization, consisting of a dynamic community of like-minded business professionals with a vested interest in improving and fostering the field of business credit and debt recovery.

International Association of Commercial Collectors

The International Association of Commercial Collectors, Inc. (IACC) is an international trade association comprised of more than 225 debt collection agencies and 150 commercial attorneys. With members throughout the U.S. and in 38 international countries, IACC is the largest organization of commercial debt collection specialists in the world.

The mission of the International Association of Commercial Collectors is to promote the commercial debt collection profession by providing IACC members with the resources to excel in the debt collection industry.

National Association of Credit Management

The National Association of Credit Management was founded in 1896 to promote good laws for sound credit, protect businesses against fraudulent debtors, improve the interchange of credit information and debt recovery, develop better credit practices and methods, help businesses learning to collect bad debts and establish a code of ethics.

National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys

The National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving law firms engaged in collecting bad debt in retail.

Credit Reporting Agencies

Equifax has been providing value-added information solutions to debt collection agencies and consumers for over 103 years. Equifax is a global service that creditors and collection agencies use to make informed decisions.

Experian. Collection agencies looking for debt recovery information, creditors looking to avoid bad debt collection and other informed parties will find Experian a leader in pre-decision credit information.

TransUnion helps its customers with preventing fraud, debt collection and managing risk.

News & Information

Collection Industry.com

Information for anyone in the debt collection industry, i.e. collection agencies, commercial debt collection attorneys and anyone interested in learning to collect bad debts.

CFO.com Magazine

CFO.com is a comprehensive online resource center for senior finance executives. Research financial topics, commercial debt collection or brush up on learning to collect bad debts.

Credit & Collections World Magazine

Credit & Collections World is an on line resource for Commercial Debt Collection companies. Look for information on debt recovery, bad debt in healthcare and collecting bad debts.

Recovery Advisor

The Recovery Advisor is mailed to more than 25,000 qualified debt recovery professionals employed by hospitals, banks, credit unions, finance companies, utility companies, billing companies, qualified municipalities, debt buyers, law firms and debt collection agencies. These bad debt collection professionals are actively involved with in-house and third party debt recovery. With pass-along readership, the total publication audience will reach more than 75,000. Research shows that these readers influence technology purchases for their companies. The Recovery Advisor publishes 6 issues a year that are targeted at industry needs.

Treasury and Risk Management Magazine

With a readership composed of the nation’s top CFOs and treasurers, Treasury & Risk Management is the essential hands-on publication for financial executives of the 21^st century. No longer the bean counters and bleary-eyed accounts keepers of past decades, modern CFOs and treasurers are now the financial architects drafting profitable growth strategies and the fiscal engines powering the restructuring of corporations into leaner and more productive enterprises. At Treasury & Risk Management, we provide perspective on forces already transforming the corporate world and uncover trends i.e. what is new in debt recovery that will ultimately define the future of finance. Treasury & Risk Management is not only about helping financial executives to think big; it is a magazine that provides the blueprints for carrying those plans to fruition.

Government - Bureau of Economic Statistics

The Bureau of Economic Statistics is a good resource site for a business like a collection agency to research key economic statistics.

Financial Management Services

Acting as Uncle Sam's money manager, the Financial Management Services (FMS) provides centralized payment, debt collection, and reporting services for the federal government. The FMS oversees the daily cash flow of nearly $50 billion into and out of federal accounts and collects more than $2.3 trillion/year in payments to the government. FMS also provides cash management to the Federal program agencies and serves as the government’s central debt collection agency, managing the government’s bad debt recovery portfolio and collects more than $2.84 billion/year in bad debt collection owed to the federal government.

Small Business Administration

The Small Business Administration is great resource site for business owners. If you are having problem with debt recovery and learning to collect bad debts or just want to look up the latest development the Small Business Administration can be valuable for your research.

Chambers and Business Associations

Corporate Resource Alliance

East Brunswick Regional Chamber of Commerce

Lakewood Chamber of Commerce

Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce

Monmouth Ocean Development Council

Attorneys

Arnowitz & Goldberg - Debt Collection and debt recovery litigation.

Marcadis & Associates - Marcadis & Associates, P.A. is an established Florida law firm centralizing in credit and bad debt collection, with over fifteen years' experience in supporting a local, regional and national client base.  Customer satisfaction is Marcadis & Associates' top priority, and continued customer satisfaction has helped us build our reputation as one of the leading credit and commercial debt collection law firms in the state of Florida.

Pressler & Pressler - Pressler and Pressler provides a total retail collection environment, including skip tracing, and asset allocation. Our office is very active in maintaining, supporting and fighting new legislation which affects the debt collection industry.  

Seal & Tenenbaum - Specialize in commercial debt collection and debt recovery litigation.

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