0001181431-14-010668.txt : 20140304 0001181431-14-010668.hdr.sgml : 20140304 20140304173751 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001181431-14-010668 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20140228 FILED AS OF DATE: 20140304 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20140304 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001084961 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SHORT-TERM BUSINESS CREDIT INSTITUTIONS [6153] IRS NUMBER: 481090909 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3111 CAMINO DEL RIO NORTH STREET 2: SUITE 1300 CITY: SAN DIEGO STATE: CA ZIP: 92108 BUSINESS PHONE: 877-445-4581 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3111 CAMINO DEL RIO NORTH STREET 2: SUITE 1300 CITY: SAN DIEGO STATE: CA ZIP: 92108 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MCM CAPITAL GROUP INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19990430 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MIDLAND CORP OF KANSAS DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19990423 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Vecchione Kenneth CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001398948 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-26489 FILM NUMBER: 14666340 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O WESTERN ALLIANCE BANCORPORATION STREET 2: ONE E. WASHINGTON STREET, STE. 1400 CITY: PHOENIX STATE: AZ ZIP: 85004 4 1 rrd404395.xml FORM 4 VECCHIONE 2014 0228 X0306 4 2014-02-28 0 0001084961 ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC ECPG 0001398948 Vecchione Kenneth 3111 CAMINO DEL RIO NORTH SUITE 1300 SAN DIEGO CA 92108 1 1 0 0 President & CEO Common Stock 2014-02-28 4 A 0 18116 0 A 141687 D Common Stock 2014-02-28 4 F 0 5872 48.62 D 135815 D Represents shares granted in connection with the achievement of performance targets for the year ended December 31, 2013. /s/ Brandt Schmidt, Attorney-in-Fact for Kenneth A. Vecchione 2014-03-04 EX-24.1 2 rrd364059_412403.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY rrd364059_412403.html 
POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all men by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Gregory L.
Call, Melissa A. Resslar and Brandt Schmidt, and each of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-
fact to:

       (1)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned in the undersigned's capacity as an
officer and/or director of Encore Capital Group, Inc. (the "Company"), any and all reports and
forms required to be filed by the undersigned in accordance with Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder, including but not limited to all Forms 3, 4 and 5;

       (2)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may
be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such report or form and timely file the
same with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or
similar trading market; and

       (3)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or
legally required by the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such
attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned, pursuant to this Power of Attorney, shall be in the
form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his or
her discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and
perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, and proper to be done in the
exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his or her substitute or
substitutes shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights
and powers herein granted.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer
required to file reports or forms pursuant to Section 16 with respect to the undersigned's holdings
of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the
undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as
of this 3rd day of March, 2014.



						By:/s/ Kenneth A. Vecchione
						Print Name: Kenneth A. Vecchione