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- Encore_Capital_Group abstract "Encore Capital Group, Inc., and subsidiaries form the largest publicly traded debt buyer by revenue in the United States. They purchase \"portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables from major banks, credit unions, and utility providers,\" and recover collectable debt from these accounts. Jake Halpern author of Bad Paper, described Encore Capital as a \"behemoth\" in the American debt-industry complex. At the corporate level debt collection is highly profitable and Encore Capital enjoyed soaring revenues from $316 million in 2009 to $773 million in 2013. The firm is a publicly traded NASDAQ Global Select company, a component stock of the Russell 2000, the S&P SmallCap 600, and the Wilshire 4500.In September 2015, both Encore and Portfolio Recovery Associates, the United States two largest debt buyers were charged with violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act by filing \"lawsuits against consumers without having the intent to prove many of the debts, winning the vast majority of the lawsuits by default when consumers failed to defend themselves.\" U.S. federal regulators - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau imposed an enforcement action on Encore for pressuring borrowers \"to pay with false statements, with lawsuits and with the use of using so-called robo-signed court documents.\" According to the New York Times Encore must pay \"$42 million in consumer refunds and a $10 million penalty\" and an injunction to \"stop collections on debts totaling more than $125 million.\" In New York State Encore and other debt buyers were filing lawsuits against customers to collect debts in hundreds of court cases which included \"generic testimony\" or relied on robo-signed bogus affidavits compared to the robo-signing controversy in the 2010 United States foreclosure crisis. At the same time \"preventing those same consumers from using the courts to challenge the companies’ tactics.\" In response to the enforcement action imposed on Encore Capital Group by the CEO Kenneth A. Vecchione claimed that its debt collection practices were not improper and that the C.F.P.B. was \"subjecting companies to its own interpretations that have never been codified or adopted.\"Their business model is highly lucrative as debt-collectors \"buy huge swaths of soured bills from lenders for pennies on the dollar.\" From 2007 to 2012 in New York State alone, Encore Capital and its subsidiaries filed more than 239,000 lawsuits and in 2013 alone collected $564.7 million in legal collections.".
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