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How Soon Will My Credit Score Improve After Bankruptcy?

CreditStrong for Business

Filing for bankruptcy sets your credit score back significantly, but you can usually begin to recover within a few months and make meaningful progress within a year. Within two years, your credit score could be even better than before you filed. Filing for bankruptcy is a serious setback, but it’s not insurmountable.

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RMAI Update August 2024

RMAi Blog

First Credit Union v. Seventh Circuit Rejects Consumer’s FCRA and FDCPA Claims Arising from Post-Bankruptcy Collection and Reporting Freeman v. The consumer filed for bankruptcy and eventually cured her pre-petition mortgage default through her bankruptcy plan payments. T-Mobile USA, Inc., 23-1952, 2024 U.S.

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Can You Get a Loan Without a Job?

CreditStrong for Business

Many local banks, credit unions, online institutions, and other lenders offer personal loans. In many cases, lenders will view those with minimal income as a credit risk and require forms of collateral and/or impose high-interest rates, fees, and other requirements.

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CRE loan distress: Spot the symptoms, diagnose, and treat problem loans

Abrigo

How to respond to CRE loan distress Use these tips for banks and credit unions to identify and handle commercial real estate loans that are showing signs of being problem CRE credits. Would you like other articles like this in your inbox? Is the above scenario another pandemic akin to our recent COVID experience?

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Lending and credit risk resources: The top downloads of 2023

Abrigo

Watch NOW Takeaway 1 Abrigo's experts produced many pieces on lending and credit risk to provide strategies and tools to help banking professionals. Takeaway 2 Readers in 2023 were most interested in learning how the 1071 rule will impact banks and credit unions and about how automation improves processes.

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Landmark Strategy Group Demonstrates Commitment to Community Through Support of FeedMore WNY

RMAi Blog

is a nationally licensed and bonded receivables management firm located in West Seneca, NY, specializing in credit union collections, passively purchasing non-performing credit cards, auto deficiency, mortgage loans, revolving or installment loans, and Chapter 13 bankruptcy receivables portfolios.

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How to create a credit risk rating system

Abrigo

Credit risk rating. For banks and credit unions, a popular tool to monitor credit risk is a standardized risk rating system, which can serve several purposes. These systems often determine credit approval processes, covenants placed on the borrower and how loans should be priced. Start with the basics.