Become the Squeaky Wheel: A Credit & Collections Guide for Everyone (The Collecting Money Series) (Volume 4)
Become the Squeaky Wheel: A Credit & Collections Guide for Everyone (The Collecting Money Series) (Volume 4)
Over 100,000 businesses have slow or non-paying customers. How can you collect that money quickly and without much effort? How can you keep the money coming in? The secrets are found in Michelle Dunn’s books, How to make money collecting money: Starting a Collection Agency, Become the Squeaky Wheel: a Credit & Collection Guide for Everyone, How to get your Customers to Pay: Fast, Easy, Effective Letters, and The first book of Effective Letters & Forms for your Collection Agency. Michelle Dunn, a leader in the debt collection industry, shares her experience and knowledge with you so you can collect more money. Once you have a credit policy in place you will quickly and easily get the results you deserve, no matter what your business, Dunn’s books will give you the tools you need to collect more money and you are going to love the results!
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Credit Risk Assessment: The New Lending System for Borrowers, Lenders, and Investors (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
Credit Risk Assessment: The New Lending System for Borrowers, Lenders, and Investors (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
“Clark and Mingyuan start with an insightful and comprehensive description of how market participants contributed to the current crisis in the residential mortgage markets and the root causes of the crisis. They then proceed to develop a new residential mortgage lending system that can fix our broken markets because it addresses the root causes. The most impressive attributes of their new system is its commonsense return to the basics of traditional underwriting, combined with factors based on expert judgment and statistics and forward-looking attributes, all of which can be updated as markets change. The whole process is transparent to the borrower, lender, and investor.” —Dean Schultz, President and CEO, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco
“The credit market crisis of 2008 has deeply affected the economic lives of every American. Yet, its underlying causes and its surface features are so complex that many observers and even policymakers barely understand them. This timely book will help guide nonspecialists through the workings of financial markets, particularly how they value, price, and distribute risk.” —Professor William Greene, Stern School of Business, New York University
“This book is a well-timed departure from much of what is being written today regarding the current foreclosure and credit crisis. Rather than attempting to blame lenders, borrowers, and/or federal regulators for the mortgage meltdown and the subsequent impacts on the financial markets, Clark and Mingyuan have proposed a groundbreaking new framework to revolutionize our current lending system. The book is built on the authors’ deep understanding of risk and the models used for credit analysis, and reflects their commitment to solve the problem. What I find most profound is their passion to develop a system that will facilitate new and better investment, especially in underserved urban markets that have been disproportionately impacted in the current crisis. I applaud the authors for this important work, and urge practitioners and theorists alike to investigate this new approach.” —John Talmage, President and CEO, Social Compact
“In the wake of the credit crisis, it is clear that transparency is the key to not repeating history. In Credit Risk Assessment: The New Lending System for Borrowers, Lenders and Investors, Clark Abrahams and Mingyuan Zhang describe a new lending framework that seeks to connect all the players in the lending chain and provide a more holistic view of customers’ risk potential. As the financial services industry recovers from the mortgage meltdown, the Abrahams/Zhang lending model certainly offers some new food for thought to laymen and professionals alike.” —Maria Bruno-Britz, Senior Editor, Bank Systems & Technology magazine
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How to Fix Your Credit in 45 Days or Less: Understanding Credit Score, What is Debt, Bad Credit, Free Credit Reports, Credit Repair, Secured Credit Cards, … Bad Credit (Nicholas Black’s How-to Series)
How to Fix Your Credit in 45 Days or Less: Understanding Credit Score, What is Debt, Bad Credit, Free Credit Reports, Credit Repair, Secured Credit Cards, … Bad Credit (Nicholas Black’s How-to Series)
How to Fix your Credit in 45 Days, or Less: Understanding Credit Score, What is Debt, Bad Credit, Free Credit Reports, Credit Repair, Secured Credit Cards, and Loans for Bad Credit
by Dr. Nigel Peterson & Nicholas Black
This book will tell you the insides and out about fixing your own credit score. What you will learn, from an industry insider (Dr. Nigel Peterson) is what the “Credit Repair Companies” Charge you thousands and thousands of dollars to do. And you can do it on your own, right now!
Here is what is covered in the book:
Introduction: How do you fix your Credit?
• Step 1: Research and Prepare all Background Info
• Step 2: Challenge the Credit Bureaus
• Step 3: Demand a Re-Investigation of the accounts that remain Negative
• Step 4: Demand a Validation of Debt
• Step 5: Demand a Revised Validation of Debt
Chapter 1: What is Your Credit Score?
• Research and prepare all background info
• Challenge the credit bureaus
• Demand a re-investigation of the accounts that remain negative
• Demand a Validation of Debt
• Demand a revised Validation of Debt
Chapter 2: What are the 3 Bureaus?
• What is a Credit Bureau?
• What are the 3 Credit Bureaus?
• Addresses and contact information for the 3 Credit Bureaus
Chapter 3: Research Your Credit Report
• Factors that negatively affect your credit score
• What is a derogatory?
Chapter 4: The 4 Federal Laws You NEED to Know
• The 4 federal laws you’ll need to know
• Hiring a company to fix your credit
Chapter 5: What are Collections Agencies?
• When can a debt collector or collection agency contact you?
• Things the collection agencies and collectors cannot do!
• Things debt collectors are prohibited from saying
• Can get collectors like you?
• Unfair practices for debt collectors
• Can they garnish your wages?
• Can they garnish your benefits?
• Are they licensed in your state to conduct business?
• Is the collection agency even a legitimate company?
• Is the collection agency even still in business?
• What to do with the collection agency first contacts you.
Chapter 6: How to Receive a Free Credit Report
• Do you want a free credit report?
• Does it hurt your credit when you check the score
Chapter 7: The different types of contracts/agreements:
• The 4 different types of contracts and agreements you can enter into
• Is there a statute of limitations on debt agreements?
• Why should you care about a statute of limitations?
• How long is the statute of limitations?
• How do you calculate when the statute of limitations is over?
• Basic list of states, and the applicable Statutes of Limitation
Chapter 8: What will you need for the dispute letters
• The documents/Info necessary for your dispute letters
• How to Mail the dispute letters
Chapter 9: Disputing Derogatory Information with the 3 Bureaus
• Identify Derogatory Information
• What does it mean to Dispute?
• What is the Process to Dispute?
• What should your dispute letter look like?
• Example dispute letter
Chapter 10: Getting the 45-day Dispute Results
• What is a re-dispute?
Chapter 11: Tips for FHA/VA Loans
• FHA and VA Guidelines
• Approach the loan with a good credit rating!
• FHA TOTAL Scorecard
• FHA Loan requirements (information)
• What additional info will Veterans need?
• Where do FHA loans come from?
• How to pre-qualify for an FHA/VA loan?
• FHA Loan mistakes to avoid!
Chapter 12: How to improve your credit
• Some basic steps to improve your credit
Chapter 13: Getting new lines of credit
• What is the best way to increase your Credit Score?
• A little sound advice:
Chapter 14: Dealing with medical debts
• Is a doctor or hospital allowed to refer an overdue medical bill to a collection agency?
• Can my personal medical information be disclosed directly to a credit reporting agency
• Can you dispute a medical collection?
• How to dispute with the Medical Facility/Insurance Company first (7-steps)
Chapter 15: What now?
• Now that you understand the process, get started!
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Finance for Non-Financial Managers (Briefcase Books Series) Reviews
Finance for Non-Financial Managers (Briefcase Books Series)
Financial reports speak their own language, and managers without a strong finance background often find themselves bewildered by what is being said.
Finance for NonFinancial Managers helps managers become familiar with essential financial information, showing them how to “speak the language of numbers” and implement financial data in their daily business decisions.
In addition, it clarifies how and why financial decisions impact business and operational objectives.
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The Credit Policy Workbook: a step-by-step, easy, fill in the blanks guide to your credit plan: The Collecting Money Series (Volume 5)
The Credit Policy Workbook: a step-by-step, easy, fill in the blanks guide to your credit plan: The Collecting Money Series (Volume 5)
This workbook was created because of the many people who ask me for help in creating their credit policy. Many of you are confused by all the books out there or the explanations and need a quick, easy way to limit your credit risk by having some type of policies or an outline of how you want your cash to flow throughout your business. It is my hope that this workbook will revolutionize how many business owners who will have a working credit policy for their business moving forward. I hope this workbook makes it easy for you to know your mission, goals and what outcome you want for your cash. With the easy to understand text and easy to fill out worksheets, I hope you have a credit policy for your business when you are done with this book. You have taken a big step towards smoother cash flow by reading this book.
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Managing Credit Risk: The Next Great Financial Challenge (Frontiers in Finance Series)
Managing Credit Risk: The Next Great Financial Challenge (Frontiers in Finance Series)
The first full analysis of the latest advances in managing credit risk.
“Against a backdrop of radical industry evolution, the authors of Managing Credit Risk: The Next Great Financial Challenge provide a concise and practical overview of these dramatic market and technical developments in a book which is destined to become a standard reference in the field.” -Thomas C. Wilson, Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
“Managing Credit Risk is an outstanding intellectual achievement. The authors have provided investors a comprehensive view of the state of credit analysis at the end of the millennium.” -Martin S. Fridson, Financial Analysts Journal.
“This book provides a comprehensive review of credit risk management that should be compulsory reading for not only those who are responsible for such risk but also for financial analysts and investors. An important addition to a significant but neglected subject.” -B.J. Ranson, Senior Vice-President, Portfolio Management, Bank of Montreal.
The phenomenal growth of the credit markets has spawned a powerful array of new instruments for managing credit risk, but until now there has been no single source of information and commentary on them. In Managing Credit Risk, three highly regarded professionals in the field have-for the first time-gathered state-of-the-art information on the tools, techniques, and vehicles available today for managing credit risk. Throughout the book they emphasize the actual practice of managing credit risk, and draw on the experience of leading experts who have successfully implemented credit risk solutions.
Starting with a lucid analysis of recent sweeping changes in the U.S. and global financial markets, this comprehensive resource documents the credit explosion and its remarkable opportunities-as well as its potentially devastating dangers. Analyzing the problems that have occurred during its growth period-S&L failures, business failures, bond and loan defaults, derivatives debacles-and the solutions that have enabled the credit market to continue expanding, Managing Credit Risk examines the major players and institutional settings for credit risk, including banks, insurance companies, pension funds, exchanges, clearinghouses, and rating agencies. By carefully delineating the different perspectives of each of these groups with respect to credit risk, this unique resource offers a comprehensive guide to the rapidly changing marketplace for credit products.
Managing Credit Risk describes all the major credit risk management tools with regard to their strengths and weaknesses, their fitness to specific financial situations, and their effectiveness. The instruments covered in each of these detailed sections include: credit risk models based on accounting data and market values; models based on stock price; consumer finance models; models for small business; models for real estate, emerging market corporations, and financial institutions; country risk models; and more. There is an important analysis of default results on corporate bonds and loans, and credit rating migration. In all cases, the authors emphasize that success will go to those firms that employ the right tools and create the right kind of risk culture within their organizations. A strong concluding chapter integrates emerging trends in the financial markets with the new methods in the context of the overall credit environment.
Concise, authoritative, and lucidly written, Managing Credit Risk is essential reading for bankers, regulators, and financial market professionals who face the great new challenges-and promising rewards-of credit risk management.
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Counterparty Credit Risk: The new challenge for global financial markets (The Wiley Finance Series)
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The first decade of the 21st Century has been disastrous for financial institutions, derivatives and risk management. Counterparty credit risk has become the key element of financial risk management, highlighted by the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers and failure of other high profile institutions such as Bear Sterns, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The sudden realisation of extensive counterparty risks has severely compromised the health of global financial markets. Counterparty risk is now a key problem for all financial institutions.
This book explains the emergence of counterparty risk during the recent credit crisis. The quantification of firm-wide credit exposure for trading desks and businesses is discussed alongside risk mitigation methods such as netting and collateral management (margining). Banks and other financial institutions have been recently developing their capabilities for pricing counterparty risk and these elements are considered in detail via a characterisation of credit value adjustment (CVA). The implications of an institution valuing their own default via debt value adjustment (DVA) are also considered at length. Hedging aspects, together with the associated instruments such as credit defaults swaps (CDSs) and contingent CDS (CCDS) are described in full.
A key feature of the credit crisis has been the realisation of wrong-way risks illustrated by the failure of monoline insurance companies. Wrong-way counterparty risks are addressed in detail in relation to interest rate, foreign exchange, commodity and, in particular, credit derivative products. Portfolio counterparty risk is covered, together with the regulatory aspects as defined by the Basel II capital requirements. The management of counterparty risk within an institution is also discussed in detail. Finally, the design and benefits of central clearing, a recent development to attempt to control the rapid growth of counterparty risk, is considered.
This book is unique in being practically focused but also covering the more technical aspects. It is an invaluable complete reference guide for any market practitioner with any responsibility or interest within the area of counterparty credit risk.
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Money and Credit: A Sociological Approach (PESS – Polity Economy and Society Series)
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This book offers a fresh and uniquely sociological perspective on money and credit. As basic economic institutions, money and credit are easy to overlook when they work well. When they malfunction, as they did in the new millennium’s global financial crisis, their importance becomes obvious and demands further investigation.
Bruce Carruthers and Laura Ariovich examine the social dimensions of money and credit at both the individual and corporate levels, from the development of personal credit and a consumer society, to the role of government in the creation of money. In clear prose, they illustrate how the overall future of the economy is governed by the financial system and the flow of capital into, and out of, firms operating in particular industrial sectors, as well as the social meanings money itself acquires and the ways people distinguish between “dirty” and “clean” money.
This accessible and engaging book will be essential reading for upper-level students of economic sociology, and those interested in how the bills, coins and plastic in our pockets shape the world we live in.
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Advances in Behavioral Economics (Roundtable Series in Behavioral Economics)
Advances in Behavioral Economics (Roundtable Series in Behavioral Economics)
Twenty years ago, behavioral economics did not exist as a field. Most economists were deeply skeptical–even antagonistic–toward the idea of importing insights from psychology into their field. Today, behavioral economics has become virtually mainstream. It is well represented in prominent journals and top economics departments, and behavioral economists, including several contributors to this volume, have garnered some of the most prestigious awards in the profession.
This book assembles the most important papers on behavioral economics published since around 1990. Among the 25 articles are many that update and extend earlier foundational contributions, as well as cutting-edge papers that break new theoretical and empirical ground.
Advances in Behavioral Economics will serve as the definitive one-volume resource for those who want to familiarize themselves with the new field or keep up-to-date with the latest developments. It will not only be a core text for students, but will be consulted widely by professional economists, as well as psychologists and social scientists with an interest in how behavioral insights are being applied in economics.
The articles, which follow Colin Camerer and George Loewenstein’s introduction, are by the editors, George A. Akerlof, Linda Babcock, Shlomo Benartzi, Vincent P. Crawford, Peter Diamond, Ernst Fehr, Robert H. Frank, Shane Frederick, Simon Gächter, David Genesove, Itzhak Gilboa, Uri Gneezy, Robert M. Hutchens, Daniel Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch, David Laibson, Christopher Mayer, Terrance Odean, Ted O’Donoghue, Aldo Rustichini, David Schmeidler, Klaus M. Schmidt, Eldar Shafir, Hersh M. Shefrin, Chris Starmer, Richard H. Thaler, Amos Tversky, and Janet L. Yellen.
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Fair Lending Compliance: Intelligence and Implications for Credit Risk Management (Wiley and SAS Business Series) Reviews
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Fair Lending ComplianceIntelligence and Implications for Credit Risk Management
“Brilliant and informative. An in-depth look at innovative approaches to credit risk management written by industry practitioners. This publication will serve as an essential reference text for those who wish to make credit accessible to underserved consumers. It is comprehensive and clearly written.”
–The Honorable Rodney E. Hood
“Abrahams and Zhang’s timely treatise is a must-read for all those interested in the critical role of credit in the economy. They ably explore the intersection of credit access and credit risk, suggesting a hybrid approach of human judgment and computer models as the necessary path to balanced and fair lending. In an environment of rapidly changing consumer demographics, as well as regulatory reform initiatives, this book suggests new analytical models by which to provide credit to ensure compliance and to manage enterprise risk.”
–Frank A. Hirsch Jr., Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Financial Services Attorney and former general counsel for Centura Banks, Inc.
“This book tackles head on the market failures that our current risk management systems need to address. Not only do Abrahams and Zhang adeptly articulate why we can and should improve our systems, they provide the analytic evidence, and the steps toward implementations. Fair Lending Compliance fills a much-needed gap in the field. If implemented systematically, this thought leadership will lead to improvements in fair lending practices for all Americans.”
–Alyssa Stewart Lee, Deputy Director, Urban Markets Initiative The Brookings Institution
“[Fair Lending Compliance]…provides a unique blend of qualitative and quantitative guidance to two kinds of financial institutions: those that just need a little help in staying on the right side of complex fair housing regulations; and those that aspire to industry leadership in profitably and responsibly serving the unmet credit needs of diverse businesses and consumers in America’s emerging domestic markets.”
–Michael A. Stegman, PhD, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Duncan MacRae ’09 and Rebecca Kyle MacRae Professor of Public Policy Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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