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Credit and Collections in the Age of AI
Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware that artificial intelligence (AI) is making headlines and radically transforming a variety of industries. The technology's potential impact on humanity is nearly incomprehensible, touching everything from...
How to Choose the Right Collection Agency for Your Business
In today's hyper-competitive business environment, maintaining a healthy cash flow is more critical than ever. Efficient debt recovery plays a pivotal role in sustaining your profitability. The decision to outsource this sensitive task to a debt collection agency...
Ethical Collection Practices: Understanding BSP and SEC Guidelines
In the financial world, debt collection is often viewed as a necessary, albeit delicate, part of maintaining fiscal stability. While collection is essential for financial institutions, it’s equally critical that the process respects borrowers’ rights and dignity. In...
When to Outsource to Third-Party Collection Agencies?
For business owners and financial professionals, effectively managing delinquent accounts is a complex yet essential task. Knowing when to endorse these accounts to specialized third-party debt collection agencies can significantly impact your resource allocation,...
Collections Vocabulary: Key Terms You Need to Know
Navigating the collections landscape can be confusing, especially with all the specialized terms and acronyms that come into play. Whether you're a professional in the field or a business owner looking to understand how your collections team operate, it's important to...
Vintage Analysis: From Insight to Action
In the world of credit risk management, understanding the performance of different portfolio segments is vital. It's not just about knowing the current state of accounts but also about predicting future behavior and managing risks accordingly. This is where vintage...
Midrange: The Critical Midpoint
What is Midrange? When navigating the debt collection landscape, you may come across the term Midrange. If you're wondering what it's about, we're here to shed some light. Simply put, Midrange refers to a specific stage in collections that handles accounts in...
Frontend: The First Line of Defense
What is Frontend? Don't confuse Frontend in debt collections with coding or web design. In the world of debt management, Frontend refers to the critical first step in the collection process. It's when a dedicated team of agents springs into action, contacting...
How to Build a High-Performing Debt Collection Team
If you're in the business of lending, you know that an effective debt collection team is your ace in the hole. Crafting credit policies is not an exact science and there will always be accounts that fall through the cracks. When they become delinquent, a good...
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...
Lagged Delinquency: What Is It and How Do You Compute It?

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...

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What are Flow Rates?

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...

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Payment Arrangements: Understanding Their Importance

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...

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What are Non-Starters?

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...

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Classifying Clients in Collections

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...

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