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Maria Moskver is the Chief Compliance Officer at WALZ, with over 16 years of experience in the consumer finance industry—including loss mitigation, bankruptcy and operations—bringing extensive knowledge of TILA, RESPA, FCRA, FDCPA, Dodd-Frank and other regulatory issues.

The Underappreciated Impact of Dodd-Frank: The Rise of Federal and State Regulatory Cooperation

There are multiple levels of regulation in the financial services industry with federal, state, and even local officials supervising companies within the industry. These regulators often cooperate, but also sometimes act in conflict with one another in their pursuit of consumer protection and enforcement of laws. This select print feature originally appeared in the February 2015 issue of DS News magazine.

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Butterfly Effect

Special Print Feature, originally appeared in the May 2013 issue of DS News Magazine.   By Jerry Alt The days of winging it are long gone for our universe of distressed assets and loss recovery—the result of a chain reaction that inexorably ...

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Obama Nominates White House Chief of Staff as Treasury Secretary

Four years after inheriting an economy on the brink, Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner is stepping down. The nominee to replace him: Jack Lew, former director of the Office of Management and Budget during both the Clinton and Obama administrations and current White House Chief of Staff.

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