CFI Services

A Full Service Marketing Company for The Collection and Legal Industry

If you are searching for a full service company to market your firm and are in need of any of the following services, please consider Columbia Financial International.  We have been in business for over 100 years with thousands of satisfied collection and legal industry clients.

  • Columbia Law List is published and distributed to over 5000 collection referral resources worldwide. Columbia offers membership to law firms who collect accounts receivable as part of their firm's practice areas.  Membership includes a premium listing in our 500 page print directory, a premium listing in our online database of collection attorneys around the world and premium listings within four of the most visited websites in the collection industry.  In addition, we offer a complimentary SEO mini-website and hosting.  This is a must have for any collection attorney who is looking for a  global network in order to attain brand name recognition and to receive bonded collection claims from its thousands of forwarders.

Collection Attorney - State Listings - If you are a collection attorney, a state page listing on the Columbia Law List website is a tremendous marketing tool for your law firm in your state.  Achieve global exposure quickly to enhance your new business development. 

Top Ten Marketing - The official website design and optimization company for the Commercial Law Leagues' Commercial Collection Agency Association, also Top Ten is the official search engine optimization company for the American Board of Certification for Creditors Rights, Business and Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, recognized by the American Bar Association. Top Ten has produced over 700 collection and legal industry websites and manages the search engine optimization of many well known collection and legal industry professionals.  In fact, Top Ten is the leader in search engine optimization for the Collection Industry.  In addition, Top Ten has a cache of collection industry related domain names and business model sites for sale on The Columbia Law List site. Top Ten also offers low cost hosting and standard domain name purchasing as well as submission services and search engine monitoring to help in maintaining proper TOP TEN positioning of your site on the internet. You can also find out how your site is ranked in all of the major search engines with our site analysis report.

 

Check 21 & Payment Processing Solutions - We can help you reduce your operational costs, increase collection efficiency and secure your customer’s cash flow with our complete line of Check 21 and payment processing solutions.

The benefits that are developed in utilizing this program include:

       Reduces processing/handling time necessary to prepare checks for deposit.

      • Reduces banking fees and related deposit processing costs.

      • Deposited funds made available to your bank account in 24-48 hours.

      • Deposits checks to your bank without actually leaving your office.

      • Eliminates trips to the bank to deposit paper checks, no more courier charges.

      • Checks received through any remote or branch office location can be deposited into one banking institution/account, simplifying bank reconciliation processes.

      • Accepts all forms of checks, i.e. consumer, business, money orders, etc. through a single point of entry.

      • Receive faster advice of NSF returns in 3-5 days, instead of 7-10-14 days as in paper processing.  

       Banks clear electronic items before paper items, thus using the EFTx system will greatly increase the likelihood of successful collection.

      • 24/7 Monitoring of your account via our secure website.

      • Ability to re-present returned consumer NSF items 2 additional times electronically, as opposed to only 1 more time in paper form ( at no additional cost ).

      • Ability to upload a ‘paid data’ file to your Remittance Processing or Accounts Receivable software programs.

      • The program is intuitively easy to use, requiring only a check imager & internet access.

      • The program is fully compliant with recently enacted “Check 21” federal banking laws.

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Licensing & Compliance Support - We assist collection agencies and collection attorneys in obtaining the necessary licenses, bonds and foreign qualifications to be compliant wherever they collect. Is your firm compliant with the licensing regulations for the states or countries you collect in? If not, please click here and fill out our short form so you can be contacted by a licensing professional. 

DebtSellers.US - Are you interested in purchasing prime bankcard debt portfolios by the county or state?  We have over 4 billion dollars in receivables available for purchase at industry low rates.  If you are a collection attorney or a collection agency interested in getting your hands on asset based or non-asset based prime bank card paper that has not been worked by a third party collection provider, now is your chance. Call Robert Pinchuck today at 800-648-1914.

Service of Process - Need a great process server network to provide service of process for collection suits, other civil suits and subpoenas across the United States? Columbia Financial has teamed up with one of the best process server networks around.  We also offer searches for  bank accounts, skips, places of employment, UCC searches and filings, lien and judgment filings, bankruptcy petitions, real estate ownership verification and real estate chain of title. Simply fill out our short inquiry form and our local representative will contact you as soon as possible. 

Debtmonitor - Need a free collection provider referral? Debtmonitor is the vehicle to get your claims placed and collected by professional collection providers who are at the top of their game. Don't forget that Debtmonitor sells premium ad space and city or state listings on the site too! Call us at 800-648-0446 for details.

Collection Attorney - City Listings - Interested in getting some premium exposure for your collection firm on a local level? This site covers all 197 major cities in the United States. If we don't list your city, we will make an optimized page for your city at no additional cost. Get a listing today!

  • AttorneysOnline.US -  One of the most visited legal directories on the Internet.  Thousands of internet users search for law firms in 78 areas of practice every day.  You receive a free premium listing in this fabulous directory with a Columbia membership or you can sign up independently and get some much needed exposure for your firm. AttorneysOnline.US also has sub-directories designed to individually market certain practice areas:

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  • Coming soon: WWW.FAMILY-LAW-ATTORNEYS-ONLINE.US 

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  • Collection Boulevard - The only search engine dedicated exclusively to the collection industry.  Banner ads and pay per click pricing available for all collection providers (Collection Boulevard has generated over 1 million hits in the last five months alone). Collection Boulevard  will drive traffic to any collection industry website with guaranteed inclusion with a Columbia membership. You may also become a national sponsor on Collection Boulevard for premium brand name recognition. Get your company name known throughout the collection industry.

  • DebtCollection.TV - An exciting new internet viewing source for video, flash and text designed ads for serious minded collection industry providers who want to get the word out on their company or firm. DebtCollection.TV is designed for the sole purpose of driving prospective clients to your website.

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  • theXchange - For the discriminating collection provider who wants to get high end exposure on one of the oldest and most popular collection provider directories on the internet.

  • Process Server Network - Columbia has developed a high exposure process server network to service over 6,000 subscribers and members.  Process servers, please call Robert Pinchuck at 1-800-648-1914 to get listed in our network. 

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  • GlobaleClaims - Internet based electronic claim forwarding service.  GlobaleClaims will allow the user to transmit and receive claims between forwarder and attorneys without worrying about the data interface.  This product is the future of the collection industry.  As a receiver, you can pump up the volume of your new business development and as a forwarder, you've found an easy to use system that will save you time and money. This is the latest innovation in cutting edge technology for the Collection Industry. Don't get left behind.  

Vendor Pages - The CFI vendor pages are designed to advertise the services and products offered by various vendors to the Collection and Legal Industries. 

  • Global Debt Collection Summit  -  This CFI annual event is held in Atlanta usually in the early summer and brings in collection industry professionals from all over the world.  No politics, just great networking and education.  Next Summit in 2007.

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