Jun 27, 2015

Today’s guest is Daniel Veinot, a lawyer and partner at Duncan Linton in Waterloo, and we discuss student loan debts and how they are handled by bankruptcy law. Daniel discusses whether student loans are automatically discharged in a bankruptcy or consumer proposal, when it's possible to go to court and how many...

Jun 20, 2015

Right now, interest rates are at record lows, benefiting those who have good credit. But what if  you don't have good credit or can't get credit at all?

Today’s guest is Jim Dunbar, the Managing Partner and Chief Commercial Officer for Affirm Financial Services, a company that provides consumer loans, term loans and...

Jun 13, 2015

Richard Dunwoody has 30 years experiences providing consulting services to the financial services industry through AFO Venture Group. On today's show Richard offers his opinion on how credit counselling agencies in Canada operate and what this means to consumers.

At our firm we work a lot with local, not-for-profit...

Jun 6, 2015

Before now, there really were no rules governing debt settlement companies in Ontario, which meant that they could charge large up-front fees, only to refer the client to a bankruptcy trustee once legal action was taken by a creditor.  The process has already started and on January 1st, 2015 the Collection Agency...