One afternoon, I drove out there to visit a prominent debt-collection agency named Northstar.
The large, fast-ticking "debt clock" prominent on the convention hall wall was as much a reminder of spending woes under a Republican administration as a Democratic one.
Applicants applying for short-term loans on the site would see clearer affordability warnings, details of costs if repayments were missed, more prominent links to debt charities, and a new logo, the company said.
The most prominent of the debt collectors, Pioneer Credit Recovery, is owned by Navient Corp., the student loan giant formerly known as Sallie Mae.
Mr. Markoff's group represents an increasingly prominent part of the debt industry: law firms that are hired by creditors or that buy delinquent accounts outright.
These are times of rising asset prices, optimism, decreased risk aversion, aggressive use of debt financing, prominent deals and deal-makers, and when naïve and unsophisticated investors tend to pile into the market.
Plunging equity prices provoked bond investors to dump the debt of several prominent investment-grade borrowers, including Xerox, Goodyear Tire, Crown Cork and Seal, and Borg Warner.
The duo has previously collaborated to make public colleges tuition-free, and both have been prominent advocates of student-loan debt relief and forgiveness.
He learned that more than a million dollars was unaccounted for and that hundreds of prominent people had large unpaid debts.
Less than a year ago after Russia had defaulted on its debts and a prominent hedge fund had collapsed the world financial system seemed to be teetering on the brink.
takes a more prominent role in stemming the European debt crisis and aiming to prevent global contagion.
