1992 Founding. Oliphant has been a debt buyer since Feb 1992. It began its re-trade/loan sale activity in early 1993 with a modest first sale.

 

1995 Oliphant participates in balance transfer credit card programs on experimental basis; Melody Cuff joins Oliphant from CFS's Asset Sales division to head Oliphant's debt sales activity.

 

1997 Oliphant participates in the formation of the industry's first trade organization for the debt buyer community, which came to be known as Debt Buyers’ Association (DBA) – http://www.debtbuyers.com/.

 

1999 Oliphant initiates the design and builds the WorldWide Debt Exchange (WDX) client-server trading platform – http://wwde.com/ – featuring a client-server architecture for Internet enabled trading. Designers and architects of Fidelity Investment's brokerage trading application, AmeriTrade and AccuTrade's MS Windows based trading software and other major systems provide the program's development.

 

2001 Oliphant enters the performing asset sale market – advising/consulting asset sales of nearly $500 Million.

 

2002 SIFIndex (SIFI), the first collection related index, started live data gathering in March-2002. SIFI was formed as a joint venture between Robert Morris and SunTrust Robinson-Humphrey. SIFI is currently under direction of Mark Hughes and Jack Sherck at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey; Robert Morris, OFC co-founder is named President of the Debt Buyers' Association.

 

2005 Oliphant sells the first Canadian Bankcard portfolio using the WDX selling platform (http://wwde.com/).

 

2006 Beam project finishes first prototype and begins Oliphant testing. "Diligence" tool project started.

 

2007 Beam project expected to open to a limited group of testing partners at the mid-year, generally available in Q4.