Fort Lauderdale, FL – December 21, 2017 – The American Fair Credit Council (AFCC) announced today it will hold its 2018 Spring Conference, April 15-16 at the historic Driskill Hotel in Austin, TX. The conference will highlight speakers from across the debt relief and accounts receivable management industries and for two days of informative sessions and networking opportunities.

Fort Lauderdale, FL – January 11, 2017 – The American Fair Credit Council (AFCC), acting on behalf of the debt settlement service provider industry, has filed a formal complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This complaint was prompted by the November 29, 2016 CFPB Complaint Snapshot Report, VOL.17 (the “Snapshot Report”), which incorrectly reported that roughly half of the approximately 4,500 complaints handled by the Bureau in this area were attributable to companies providing debt settlement services.

Fort Lauderdale, FL – February 25, 2016 – The American Fair Credit Council (AFCC) announced today it will hold its spring conference April 17th-18th at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New Orleans, LA. This year’s conference will highlight recent legislative updates and technical sessions from leading industry stakeholders, legislators and industry regulators.

Highlights of the upcoming conference include a presentation by Ohio State Senator Bill Seitz, (R-Cincinnati) and AFCC lobbyist Kurt Leib, partner at Capitol Advocates, who will provide a detailed update on a bill moving through the Ohio legislature relating to fee caps on debt relief services. Attendees will have an opportunity to hear from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Debt Collection Program Manager Mr. John McNamara, who will provide an update on the status of the agency’s debt collection rule-making initiative and how the enhanced regulatory scrutiny of the debt collection industry may impact the debt settlement industry.

Fort Lauderdale, FL – September 16, 2015 – The results of nine year study of consumers enrolled in debt settlement programs, commissioned by the American Fair Credit Council (AFCC) and performed by the Certified Public Accounting firm of Hemming Morse LPP, show consumers realize financial benefit and have a higher probability of success since regulatory reforms went into effect in 2010. The August 2015 study, the second of its kind and a follow up to the original study commissioned by the AFCC in 2012, addressed the outcomes of over 1.9 million consumer accounts enrolled in debt settlement programs by approximately 297,000 consumers from January 1, 2006 through March 31, 2015.