UPDATE 1-U.S. consumer agency charges top two bad debt buyers
September 09, 2015 at 13:46 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - U.S. consumer protection regulators ordered the country's two largest debt buyers, Encore Capital Group and a unit of PRA Group, to pay millions of dollars in refunds and fines on Wednesday over charges of using "deceptive tactics" to collect bad debt.