Duggan & Lanyon¿s Consumer Credit Law is suitable for both lawyers specialising in lending as well as those whose practitioners whose involvement with the Code is more peripheral. The updated and revised second edition covers all major developments in legislation and case law since the first edition was published in 1999. Written by experts in the field, this title concentrates on the Code but covers related laws and various state and territory laws governing the licensing and registration of credit providers and the constitution of tribunals. Features: - Authoritative and accessible piece of legal writing - Comprehensive coverage of the NCCP - Expert authors with strong reputations in the consumer credit field
Provides practitioners and students with a guide to consumer credit legislation. Reproduced are the Consumer Credit Code and Consumer Credit Regulation 1995, both annotated and explained in a comprehensive and detailed commentary.
THE ANNOTATED NATIONAL CREDIT CODE has an established reputation as an invaluable guide to the Code and Regulations. It is an essential reference for financial institutions, retailers, financiers and consumer advocates as well as practitioners to ensure their compliance with Code obligations. The move towards federal regulation of the industry has resulted in a single, standard, national regulation of consumer credit. This has a significant impact on any person involved in the origination, management or enforcement of consumer credit. The code also applies to those who provide credit to purchase, renovate or improve residential property for investment purposes. Among other things, the new regulatory framework will create a new licensing system, impose responsible lending requirements and extend regulation to apply to the finance broking industry. Professionals in the field must acquaint themselves with the new framework. This is the only book to focus solely on the Code. It is a practice oriented guide that provides detailed and comprehensive annotations and explanations. Practitioners will find this book invaluable in dealing with the new federal scheme and understanding the new responsibilities placed upon credit providers and the penalties for breach.
Revised and updated second edition. Annotated version of the Consumer Credit Code and Consumer Credit Regulation 1995 with explanatory commentary. Revisions are in response to recent cases and legislative changes. Includes new commentary on recent Code cases, lessons learnt from Code litigation, and the October 2000 Code amendments. Includes index and tables. Authors are banking and finance partners with Mallesons Stephen Jacques.
The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading credit bureaus are among the most powerful institutions in modern life—yet we know almost nothing about them. Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion are multi-billion-dollar corporations that track our movements, spending behavior, and financial status. This data is used to predict our riskiness as borrowers and to judge our trustworthiness and value in a broad array of contexts, from insurance and marketing to employment and housing. In Creditworthy, the first comprehensive history of this crucial American institution, Josh Lauer explores the evolution of credit reporting from its nineteenth-century origins to the rise of the modern consumer data industry. By revealing the sophistication of early credit reporting networks, Creditworthy highlights the leading role that commercial surveillance has played—ahead of state surveillance systems—in monitoring the economic lives of Americans. Lauer charts how credit reporting grew from an industry that relied on personal knowledge of consumers to one that employs sophisticated algorithms to determine a person's trustworthiness. Ultimately, Lauer argues that by converting individual reputations into brief written reports—and, later, credit ratings and credit scores—credit bureaus did something more profound: they invented the modern concept of financial identity. Creditworthy reminds us that creditworthiness is never just about economic "facts." It is fundamentally concerned with—and determines—our social standing as an honest, reliable, profit-generating person.
