CFS II, a Tulsa, Okla.-based debt collection agency, is scouting offices in North Carolina to potentially open a call center with as many as 2,000 jobs, according to company officials. Processing ...

Bill Bartmann's sweeping national campaign to clean up the collection industry, a push many in the business consider highly ironic, has gone to new heights with the introduction Tuesday of the ...

Bill Bartmann built one of America’s biggest fortunes turning credit card debt into novel Wall Street securities, and then lost it all in a massive accounting fraud. Now he’s back to his old game-and ...

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TULSA, Oklahoma -- Oklahoma businessman Bill Bartmann – who built the world's largest debt collection agency in the 1990s – has now launched an effort to put a stop to abusive and threatening debt ...

TULSA, Oklahoma -- A Tulsa businessman is back more than a decade after his sudden fall from grace. Bill Bartmann and his wife Kathy built Commercial Financial Services into a billion dollar business ...

Bill Bartmann has debt-collecting in his DNA. Before founding Commercial Financial Services (CFS), a debt-collection business and four-time Inc. 500 company, Bartmann grew up in what he calls a ...

COLLECTING MONEY NICELY Bill Bartmann: He recommends reforming state collections laws, including granting the attorney general power to prosecute violations and requiring collection agencies and ...

Tulsa businessman Bill Bartmann died Tuesday. Bartmann became a billionaire in the 1990s when he built his debt-collection business, Commercial Financial Services, into a colossus. It all came ...

Bill Bartmann, a janitor’s son, built up a debt-collection company whose value in the 1990s was estimated in the billions of dollars. The success of his Tulsa, Okla.-based Commercial Financial ...