Yesterday, the CFPB and ACE money Express issued pr announcements announcing that ACE has entered into a permission purchase because of the CFPB. The permission purchase details ACE’s collection techniques and needs ACE to cover $5 million in restitution and another $5 million in civil penalties that are monetary.
The CFPB criticized ACE for: (1) instances of unfair and deceptive collection calls; (2) an instruction in ACE training manuals for collectors to “create a sense of urgency,” which resulted in actions of ACE collectors the CFPB viewed as “abusive” due to their creation of an “artificial sense of urgency”; (3) a graphic in ACE training materials used during a one-year period ending in September 2011, which the CFPB viewed as encouraging delinquent borrowers to take out new loans from ACE; (4) failure of its compliance monitoring, vendor management, and quality assurance to prevent, identify, or correct instances of misconduct by some third-party debt collectors; and (5) the retention of a third party collection company whose name suggested that attorneys were involved in its collection efforts in its consent order.
Particularly, the permission purchase will not specify the quantity or regularity of problematic collection calls produced by ACE enthusiasts nor does it compare ACE’s performance along with other businesses gathering debt that is seriously delinquent. Except as described above, it will not criticize ACE’s training materials, monitoring, incentives and procedures. The relief that is injunctive in your order is “plain vanilla” in general. Continue reading “CFPB obtains ten dollars million of relief for payday lender’s collection phone phone telephone calls”