Banks braced for record debt defaults in the New Year (Daily Telegraph)

Banks have been urged to prepare their debt collection departments for the busiest New Year on record in anticipation of a spike in problem loans after Christmas.

NJ law restricts campus credit card solicitations (Asbury Park Press)

TRENTON â€" Credit card companies that want to solicit customers on New Jersey's college campuses are now facing tighter restrictions.

Identity thieves targeting job seekers (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)

The job hunt is on. You are networking, posting resumes at job search Web sites and filling out countless applications. The more exposure you get, the better your chances of landing a job.

Relevant Links (AllAfrica.com)

Local government director- general Elroy Africa told the committee a draft strategy for revenue enhancement and debt collection had been completed to assist municipalities collect the R54bn owed them by businesses, households and the government.

Umno not behind cow head incident (Malaysian Mirror)

SHAH ALAM â€" Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim said Umno members involved in the cow head procession in front of Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah building acted as individuals. He told Ng Suee Lim (DAP-Sekinchan) that the state government could not do anything more since some of them had been charged in court for the procession. Ng, in his supplementary question, wanted Khalid to ...

PDA deployment pays off for debt collection firm (Computing.co.uk)

Tom Young, Computing , Thursday 5 November 2009 at 07:45:00 Bristow & Sutor has seen a significant rise in productivity since it equipped its bailiffs with GPS-enabled PDAs Bristow & Sutor, a firm supported in the West Midlands that collects payments on behalf of local authorities, has rolled out personal digital assistants (PDAs) to more than 150 bailiffs in an effort to meliorate their time ...

Phony bill scam making the rounds (Lexington Clipper-Herald)

She rebuffs the pressure to repay a nonexistent loan. Pamela Frank hesitated when a man called her at work to say she was delinquent on a $798.96 loan and would be sued, fired and arrested if she didn't settle.