Nuts & Bolts: Legal Compliance for the Unsecured Creditor
Date: October 7
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM CST; 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
Price: Members- $39.00 Non-members- $69.00
Location: Live Webinar (online)
Description:
This session looks at the legal environment of business as it afects the credit operation of the unsecured creditor and requires compliance with certain statutes and regulations; this will include a review of the Federal antitrust laws, including Sherman, Clayton, Federal Trade Commission, and Robinson-Patman Acts; the primary Consumer Credit Protection Acts afecting the unsecured creditor, including Equal Credit Opportunity, Fair Credit Reporting, and Fair Debt Collection Practices Acts; and the role of the credit operation in avoiding business torts, including defamation and other forms of injury and damage to other businesses.
Bio:
Rod Wheeland served as the senior executive of NACM Commercial Services and predecessor companies for twenty-three years. He has worked in and around trade credit for four decades, and before coming to NACM in 1995, he was Corporate Credit Manager for Pendleton. Rod served for seven years on the NACM Commercial Services Board of Directors, which he chaired in 1991-92. He chaired the National Presidents Credit Council (Riemer), an association of present and past presidents of eighty national industry credit groups, and he’s a past chairman of the NACM Afliate Secretarial Council, which represents NACM Afliates on the NACM National Board of Directors. Rod has a master’s degree from York University in Toronto, a bachelor’s degree from Eastern Washington University in Spokane, and achieved CCE certifcation in 1991 and the CAE in 2007.
Thank you to NACM Commerical Services for their partnership.