1st Edition
Regulation of Debt Collection in Europe Understanding Informal Debt Collection Practices
Edited By Cătălin Gabriel Stănescu
Copyright 2023
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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Due to the absence of due process and other procedural guarantees generally offered by judicial enforcement, informal debt collection practices (IDCPs) can become abusive, harming both consumers and the economy by threatening consumers’ physical, psychological, and economic wellbeing; exposing lawabiding debt collectors to unfair competition; undermining the financial system; and negatively... Read more
Acknowledgments
Introduction – Regulating Informal Debt Collection in the European Union (Stănescu)
- Contemporary European Debt Collection Practices Through the Prism of the Rule of Law (Tajti)
- Regulation of Abusive Informal Debt Collection Practices in Croatia (Poretti)
- Debt Collection Services in Germany – A Sector in Turmoil (Markworth)
- Abusive Informal Debt Collection Practices in Greece (Kaprou)
- Abusive Debt Recovery Practices in Estonia (Sein)
- Doubling Down on Debt? Legal Responses to Private Debt as a Business Model in the Netherland (Leone and van Duin)
- Regulation of Abusive Informal Debt Collection Practices in Poland (Kępiński)
- Romania’s Struggle to Regulate Abusive Informal Debt Collection Practices (Stănescu and Albanezi)
- Regulation of Abusive Informal Debt Collection Practices in Sweden (Holtz)
- The UK Debt Collection Industry: Why Regulation Is Not Enough (Gardner and Gray)
- Can the Representative Actions Directive Combat Abusive Debt Collection Practices in the EU? (Horvath)
Index
Biography
Cătălin-Gabriel Stănescu is Associate Professor in Law at the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, University of Southern Denmark.
