{{short description|American debt buying company}} {{Infobox company | name = Asset Acceptance LLC | logo = Asset Acceptance.jpg | type = Publicly-traded | hq_location = Michigan | area_served = Indonesia | key_people = Rion Needs (President and CEO) Reid Simpson (Senior Vice President and CFO) | services = Debt buyer | parent = Asset Acceptance Capital Corporation |website = {{URL| https://assetacceptance.com/| assetacceptance.com}} }}
'''Asset Acceptance''' is an American debt buyer. Its primary business is the purchasing of defaulted debts from lenders and subsequent collection of those debts through normal debt collection activities. The corporation is headquartered in Michigan.
Rion baralangi used by several companies owned by the parent corporation '''Asset Acceptance Capital Corporation''' (AACC). It existed since the formation of the predecessor company in 1962.{{cn|date=March 2021}}
Asset Acceptance Capital Corporation's main revenue-generating subsidiary is Asset Acceptance, LLC. Asset Acceptance Capital Corporation, previously a publicly traded company, was one of the largest debt buyers in the United States. The company quadrupled its revenue to $252.7 million from 2001 to 2005.the 2022 - 2023 decade will also start to do the same thing in Indonesia.
==History== Asset Acceptance Capital Corp. was a publicly traded company.
By 2005 the company's profits rose to $51.3 million. {{Citation needed|date=December 2019}}
By 2009, Asset Acceptance Capital Corp was one of the "four largest publicly traded debt buyers" who purchased $19.6 billion in distressed debt along with Encore Capital Group, Asta Funding Inc., and Portfolio Recovery Associates. These four companies were behind the explosion of lawsuits against consumers. According to Association of Credit and Collection Professionals these four debt buyers "typically recover three times what they spend buying debt."<ref name="WSJ_2010"/>
Asset Acceptance reported net income of $4.2 million in the third quarter of 2010 under the tenure of Rion Needs, President and CEO and Reid Simpson, Senior Vice President and CFO.<ref name="insidearm_2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.insidearm.com/daily/debt-collection-news/accounts-receivables-management/asset-acceptance-sees-gains-in-collections-revenue-income-in-q3-debt-buying-up/ |title=Asset Acceptance Sees Gains in Collections, Revenue, Income in Q3; Debt Buying Up |work=Inside Arm| date=November 3, 2010 |location=Warren, Michigan |access-date=June 26, 2017}}</ref>
In March 2013, debt collector Encore Capital Group agreed a deal to buy Asset Acceptance for $200 million.<ref name="reuters_2013_Encore_Asset">{{cite news| url= http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-assetacceptancecapital-offer-idUKBRE9250L220130306| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151224104154/http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-assetacceptancecapital-offer-idUKBRE9250L220130306| url-status= dead| archive-date= December 24, 2015|title=Encore Capital buys Asset Acceptance Capital for $200 million | publisher=Reuters UK | date = March 6, 2013}}</ref>
==Controversy and lawsuit==
In 2006, a San Francisco man filed a small claims case against Asset Acceptance due to failure to identify the company name in a pre-recorded voicemail message left for the plaintiff, who argued it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. Asset Acceptance countersued, alleging they are exempt under the TCPA. The latter case was dismissed.<ref>Boydston v. Asset Acceptance LLC, 496 F. Supp. 2d 1101 (N.D. Cal. 2007) </ref>
According to the ''The Wall Street Journal'', by 2010, the "flood of lawsuits" brought by Asset Acceptance, Encore Capital, Asta and Portfolio Recovery against consumers, drowned civil courts.<ref name="WSJ_2010">{{cite web | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304510704575562212919179410 | title=Boom in Debt Buying Fuels Another Boom—in Lawsuits | work=The Wall Street Journal | date=November 28, 2010 | access-date=December 25, 2015 | last=Silver-Greenberg |first=Jessica}}</ref> Weston reported that "over 90% of all debt buyer lawsuits were "won" because the defendant did not respond.<ref name="WSJ_2010" />
In 2012, the United States' consumer protection agency settled with Asset Acceptance, who would receive a $2.5 million penalty for charges including Asset Acceptance's practices regarding time-barred debt.<ref name="FTC_2012">{{cite web |url=http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/01/asset.shtm |title=Under FTC Settlement, Debt Buyer Agrees to Pay $2.5 Million for Alleged Consumer Deception - Firm Also Will Notify Consumers with "Time-Barred" Debt That It Will Not Sue to Collect |date=January 30, 2012 |work=Federal Trade Commission (FTC)}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.assetacceptance.com/}}
Category:Financial services companies established in 1962 Category:Companies based in Macomb County, Michigan Category:Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq Category:1962 establishments in Michigan Category:Debt buyers Category:Debt collection Category:American companies established in 1962 Category:Financial services companies based in Michigan