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Lagged Delinquency: What Is It and How Do You Compute It?
How to Compute Lagged Delinquency Lagged delinquency is the gold standard in measuring delinquency in credit cards as it uses a method called vintage analysis. In case you don't know, vintage analysis takes into account the period or month in which the accounts...
Call Monitoring: Why Is It Important and How Should It Be Done?
What is Call Monitoring? Call monitoring is the act of listening to an agent’s call, whether it is live or recorded. It is usually a call with the cardholder, but it can also be with a third party if you want to evaluate how your agents locate difficult-to-contact...
What are Flow Rates?
Understanding Flow Rates Flow rate is the percentage of delinquent balances that flows from one delinquency cycle to another. For example, if the total balance of delinquency cycle 1 (DC1) accounts in the previous month was USD100 million and the total balance of...
Payment Arrangements: Understanding Their Importance
What are Payment Arrangements? In credit cards, there are several ways to entice delinquent clients to pay. First, you can offer to reverse their charges when they update their accounts. However, not all clients will be enticed to do this even if you offer to reverse...
What are Non-Starters?
Collection Non-Starters Non-starters are cardholders who have never made a payment to their credit cards. In some cases, these are clients who may have missed their first due dates for various reasons. However, it is in this non-starter group that you will find the...
Classifying Clients in Collections
Client Types In collections, there are typically four different types of clients. Identifying them as early as possible can help your agents determine which collection strategy will work best. Type 1 They are the easiest to collect from and should comprise a huge...