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Recent Study: Encore Capital Group, Inc. (ECPG) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

Source country pr-inside Sunday, February 5, 2012 9:51:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] consumer credit[1]; consumer's[1]; consumer[2];

Other categories: Economic Crisis - Internal Market; Consumers;

(PR-inside.com) Encore Capital Group, Inc.(Encore) is a purchaser and manager of charged-off consumer receivable portfolios from national financial institutions, retail credit corporations and resellers. The company's receivable portfolio is comprised of unsecured, charged-off domestic consumer credit card, telecom and healthcare receivables....

Articles published more than 2 hours ago

Private firms give UK police forces millions of pounds to investigate crimes

Source country telegraph Sunday, February 5, 2012 9:34:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[1]; Enforcement[2];

Entities: Sandra Quinn[1];

Other categories: Consumers; Fight against Fraud; DG Taxation & Customs Union;

The full extent of how Britain's police forces are routinely charging private companies millions of pounds to investigate crimes committed against them can be revealed....

Articles published more than 4 hours ago

Trade Gap in U.S. Probably Widened as Imports Increased More Than Exports

Source country bloomberg Sunday, February 5, 2012 7:42:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[1]; Consumer[1]; consumer[3];

Entities: Stephen Stanley[1]; Barack Obama[1]; Doug Oberhelman[1]; Jeffrey Immelt[1];

Other categories: Consumers; Imports Exports; EU-USA;

Quotes in this article

Stephen Stanley said: “We should see a bit of a pickup in imports as the economy and the consumer are doing better,”

Trade Gap Probably Widened as Imports Grew: U.S. Economy Preview The trade deficit in the U.S. probably widened in December to a six-month high as imports climbed faster than exports, economists said a report this week will show. The gap grew to $48.5 billion from the $47....

Hackers hit law websites

Source country arabtimes Sunday, February 5, 2012 6:57:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[6];

Entities: Bradley Manning[1]; Neal Puckett[1]; Frank Wuterich[2]; Ali Mussawi[1]; Nouri al-Maliki[1]; Karen Todner[1]; Graham Cluley[1];

Other categories: Consumers; Public Health (general);

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Ali Mussawi said: “We will keep pursuing the legal channels to fight for the rights of our citizens who were victims of indiscriminate shooting, without having committed any sins,”

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 4, (Agencies): Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective known as Anonymous. Breaches w......

New Market Study Published: UK Consumer Credit 2011: Current Account Portability

Source country pr-inside Sunday, February 5, 2012 5:49:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] Consumer Credit[1]; Consumer[2]; consumers[6]; consumer[1]; CONSUMER[1];

Other categories: Consumers; Economic Crisis - Internal Market; Banking - Financial Services; Social situation;

(PR-inside.com) The effort involved in switching current accounts has historically been seen as a barrier to competition in the retail banking markets. With regulators in several countries currently looking at banking competition, several solutions have been proposed to simplify the switching.......

Articles published more than 6 hours ago

New Market Report: Intersections Inc. (INTX) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review

Source country pr-inside Sunday, February 5, 2012 3:48:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] consumer-oriented[1]; consumer protection[1]; consumer[2];

Other categories: Consumers;

(PR-inside.com) Intersections Inc. (Intersections) is a identity management solutions providing company. It provides branded and customized management solutions. The company is also engaged in provision of consumer-oriented insurance and membership products....

Market Report, "Chile Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report Q1 2012", published

Source country pr-inside Sunday, February 5, 2012 2:48:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] consumer protection[1]; consumer[1];

Entities: Sebastián Piñera[1];

Other categories: Consumers;

(PR-inside.com) BMI View: At a value of CLP1,381bn (US$2.71bn), drug expenditure in Chile represented 1.32% of GDP in 2010, while per capita spending reached an estimated US$158. Chile's economic development is forecast to experience steady modest growth. Fiscal expenditure will increase and real GDP growth is expected to come in at 5....

‘Intelligence Gathering And Pro-active Engagement Is key To Combating Crime’

Source country guardiannewsngr Sunday, February 5, 2012 1:36:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[11];

Other categories: Consumers; Fight against Fraud; Institutional Affairs; Conflict;

Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi, former Director General of the defunct National Security Organisation (NSO) during the Second Republic, now a chieftain of All Nigerian Political Party (ANPP) and former presidential Aspirant, poured out his mind to our reporter, Saxone Akhaine, on the current national.......

Police raid Occupy encampment in Washington park

Source country guardian Sunday, February 5, 2012 12:59:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[3];

Entities: Vincent Gray[1]; James McPherson[1]; Guy Fawkes[1];

Other categories: Consumers;

Tents that conformed to regulations were allowed to stay as officers were careful to say they were not evicting protesters Dozens of police in riot gear and on horseback converged on one of the last remaining Occupy encampments in the US on Saturday, clearing the grounds of tents that they said were banned under park rules....

UNODC puts victims at the heart of criminal justice responses to terrorism

Source country unodc Sunday, February 5, 2012 12:43:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[1]; access to justice[1];

Entities: Abuja-Nigeria[1]; Yuri Fedotov[1];

Other categories: Society; Consumers; Terrorist Attack; UN Bodies;

22 November. New York - Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), today launched the publication Criminal Justice Response to Support Victims of Acts of Terrorism at United Nations Headquarters. This is the first time that the experiences of a broad.......

New traffic enforcement cameras switched on

Source country jpost Sunday, February 5, 2012 12:35:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[5];

Entities: Yitzhak Aharonovitch[1]; Bruno Stein[2]; Yaacov Ganot[1];

Other categories: Consumers;

Dozens of cameras situated at accident-prone roads, junctions; some believe cameras aimed at lining gov't coffers with cash from fines....

Articles published more than 12 hours ago

Economy set for another £50bn boost as Sir Mervyn King expected to restart printing presses

Source country dailymail Saturday, February 4, 2012 10:45:00 PM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] consumer credit[1]; consumer[1];

Entities: Trevor Williams[1]; Jeffrey Archer[1]; Peter Dixon[1]; Mervyn Allister King[2];

Other categories: Consumers; Financial Crisis; Monetary Issues EU;

In what would be the sixth round of quantitative easing, the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee is likely to take the total of its money-creation programme to a minimum of £325 billion, the equivalent of more than 22 per cent of gross domestic product....

Expensive lenders tempt women to borrow, but firms want self-regulation

Source country dailymail Saturday, February 4, 2012 10:45:00 PM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] consumer credit[1]; consumer[1];

Other categories: Consumers;

Financial Mail has discovered several websites featuring pictures of young women laden with colourful shopping bags, though the industry claimed last week it was capable of 'setting the standard of self-regulation and consumer credit'....

Revealed: The full cost of 'cash-saving' warranties

Source country dailymail Saturday, February 4, 2012 10:22:00 PM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] consumers[1]; guarantees[2]; Consumers[1]; consumer[1];

Entities: John Lewis[5];

Other categories: Consumers;

The results of a year-long investigation into controversial extended warranties are about to be published – raising fresh doubts over their value to consumers and the way in which they are sold....

Hackers record, leak FBI, Scotland Yard call

Source country ChinaPost Saturday, February 4, 2012 8:07:00 PM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[4];

Entities: Graham Cluley[1];

Other categories: Consumers;

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet....

Experts vow to give law enforcers an earfull

Source country JakartaPost Saturday, February 4, 2012 6:04:00 PM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[3];

Other categories: Consumers;

A group of judges, prosecutors, academics and experts are banding together to fight what one member called "poor law enforcement, from head to toe" in Indonesia."The law enforcement process has been ......

Foreign Secretary: Why the international community has to come together to help Somalia

Source country fco Saturday, February 4, 2012 5:38:00 PM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] access to justice[1];

Entities: Douglas Hurd[1]; Andrew Mitchell[1];

Other categories: Food Security & Aid; Consumers; Conflict;

Foreign Secretary William Hague writes in the Huffington Post UK, following his visit to Somalia....

Anonymous gain access to FBI and Scotland Yard hacking call

Source country myjoyonline Saturday, February 4, 2012 5:29:00 PM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[4];

Entities: Frank Gardner[1];

Other categories: Consumers; Financial Crisis;

Hacking network Anonymous has released a recording of a conference call between the FBI and UK police in which they discuss efforts against hackers....

AP Analysis: Border Patrol OT up as arrests drop (AP)

Source country news-yahoo Saturday, February 4, 2012 3:53:00 PM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[3];

Entities: Janet Napolitano[1]; Alicia A Caldwell[1];

Other categories: Consumers; Fight against Fraud;

Quotes in this article

Janet Napolitano said: "Every element of the federal government has an obligation to find ways to do what we do more efficiently and in a more cost effective manner,"

AP - Border Patrol agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border crossers has fallen to the lowest level in nearly 40 years, an Associated Press analysis of agency records finds....

Doping-Untersuchungen gehen weiter

Source country netzeitung Saturday, February 4, 2012 3:20:00 PM CET | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] missbräuchliche[2];

Entities: Frankie Andreu[1]; Floyd Landis[1]; Michele Ferrari[1]; Lance Armstrong[2]; Bay Area Laboratory[1]; Andre Birotte[1]; Travis Tygart[2]; Jeff Novitzky[1];

Other categories: Consumers;

Für Lance Armstrong ist es eine gute Nachricht. Die strafrechtlichen Ermittlungen in den USA wurden eingestellt. Doch der höchst umstrittene frühere Radprofi sollte sich nicht zu früh freuen. Die Anti-Doping-Agentur der USA will ......

Look who's listening in to FBI

Source country smh Saturday, February 4, 2012 2:11:00 PM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[3];

Other categories: Consumers;

LONDON: They trade jokes, chuckle and talk shop about a hacker plot called ''Project Mayhem''....

Articles published more than 1 day ago

Chinese Feed Illegal Ivory Trade

Source country ipsnews Saturday, February 4, 2012 10:20:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[3]; consumer[1];

Entities: Hosni Mubarak[1];

Other categories: Consumers;

The illegal trade in ivory continues in Egypt, with ivory products sold openly in local tourist markets by traders who operate with impunity, a new study by the conservation group Traffic has found....

Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call

Source country dailystar-LB Saturday, February 4, 2012 9:55:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[5];

Entities: Karen Todner[1]; Graham Cluley[1];

Other categories: Consumers;

Investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent a conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous...

How did Anonymous hackers eavesdrop on FBI and Scotland Yard? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Source country news-yahoo Saturday, February 4, 2012 8:11:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[3]; consumer education[1]; consumer[2];

Entities: Graham Cluley[1];

Other categories: Consumers;

The Christian Science Monitor - Hackers describing themselves as part of the group Anonymous posted on the Internet Friday a recording of a conference call between FBI and Scotland Yard officials discussing the legal cases against individuals believed to be part of the group....

Just Released: "International Personal Finance plc (IPF) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review"

Source country pr-inside Saturday, February 4, 2012 7:33:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] consumer credit[1]; consumer[1];

Other categories: Economic Crisis - Internal Market; Consumers;

(PR-inside.com) International Personal Finance plc (IPF) is a UK based banking company. IPF offers its customers with small sum, short-term unsecured loans that should be repayable with in six months to one year. It is engaged in home credit business and operates as a non-bank financial institution....

Hacker Group Anonymous Intercepted U.S. Call Over Investigation

Source country bloomberg Saturday, February 4, 2012 6:39:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[3];

Entities: Frank Wuterich[1]; Michael Riley[1];

Other categories: Consumers;

The U.S. government said the online hacker group Anonymous intercepted a telephone call between FBI agents and U.K. authorities involving a joint investigation of the group. Members of the hacker-activist group obtained details on a Jan. 17 conference call, including dial-in information, and posted a recording of it on Google Inc....

Corporate enforcer quits

Source country independent-ie Saturday, February 4, 2012 6:10:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[2]; Enforcement[2];

Entities: Brendan Howlin[1]; Paul Appleby[2]; Peter Kelly[1]; Bertie Ahern[2]; Elliot Ness[1]; Mary Harney[1];

Other categories: Economic Crisis - Internal Market; Consumers;

This week's announcement that Paul Appleby is to retire as head of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement has once again thrust the low-key bureaucrat into the limelight....

Hackers Intercept FBI Call With U.K.

Source country wsj-en Saturday, February 4, 2012 5:37:00 AM CET | info [other]

Trigger words: [ConsumerAffairs] enforcement[5];

Other categories: Cybersecurity; Consumers;

The FBI said hackers have intercepted a sensitive conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard cybercrime investigators....

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