What is Customer Due Diligence (CDD)?

What is Customer Due Diligence?

Customers are the foundation of any company. Without a comprehensive understanding of who your customers are, it’s hard to make informed decisions about how to grow — like who to target, what services to provide, and how to best provide these services. While every business gathers some information about their customers, many do not take … Read more

Three Tips for Using Public Records for Legal Due Diligence

Three Tips for Using Public Records for Legal Due Diligence

For legal professionals, doing your due diligence, whether it’s on the client, opposition, or case in general, is a necessary but tedious task. If you don’t assess all sources of possible risk, you may walk straight into surprises in the courtroom that could hinder your strategy.   Due diligence not only helps you mitigate risk and … Read more

What is a Debt Buyer?

What is a debt buyer?

No financial institution wants to deal with overdue debts, especially when a payment is long overdue and becomes a bad debt. However, essentially any company that extends credit has to deal with collections at some point or another. Some creditors may try to do fdcpa first-party collections through an in-house collection branch. If a financial … Read more

Seven Types of Private Investigations

Seven Types of Private Investigations

Private investigators are basically professional information finders (if you want to learn more, check out our blog post “What is a Private Investigator?”). As experts at getting information no one else can, they get hired to use their investigative tactics to help people and companies  solve problems and get answers beyond just the traditional criminal … Read more

Three Tips for Locating Witnesses

Three Tips for Locating Witnesses

As legal professionals know, locating witnesses is far from easy. When you’re trying to locate someone, you need to uncover addresses and potential locations, and then contact the witness directly at that location. In certain situations, such as if a witness is being called to testify against someone in a criminal defense case, that individual … Read more

What is Risk Mitigation?

What is risk mitigation?

No organization wants to deal with obstacles or questions when it comes to their business, customers, or vendors. Tough situations in the business world means money, time, and resources spent trying to solve the issue rather than on bringing in revenue. Take identity theft: the FTC reported there were 4.8 million identity theft and fraud … Read more

Four Debt Collection Tools for Quick and Efficient Collection

Four Debt Collection Tools and Technologies

The debt collection process involves many different steps. Before you can collect on a debt, you need to locate debtors, manage collections accounts, contact the debtors, gather consumer or business information for account monitoring, and more. Handling all these moving pieces can be challenging for even the most experienced debt collectors. That’s why it’s important to … Read more

What is a Private Investigator?

What is a Private Investigator?

People need information all the time. Sometimes, it’s a small piece of information, like the name or contact information for a certain person. Other times, it’s more complex information, like a person’s entire history, including where they lived, who they worked for, and who they associate with. While we’d like to think that with social … Read more

What is a UCC Filing?

What is a UCC Filing?

There are many business records that can help a business or individual understand more about another business. For example, you may want to view a business’s credit score, learn about owners of a business, or search a business’s tax filings. All of these searches can help an individual or business learn about another business, its … Read more