---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001084961-22-000101"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ECPG"
cik: "0001084961"
company_name: "ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2022-08-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T19:11:07.916687+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Encore Capital appoints William C. Goings to Board, increasing size to 9 directors

## Summary
- Board expanded from 8 to 9 directors; Goings appointed effective Sept 1, 2022.
- Goings qualifies as independent under Nasdaq; joins Compensation and Nominating/Governance Committees.
- Goings most recently EVP at TD Bank Group and President of TD Insurance; global financial services background.
- His experience includes CEO of GE Financial Insurance Europe and President of Genworth Life Insurance.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001084961-22-000101
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ECPG
- cik: 0001084961
- company_name: ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2022-08-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084961/000108496122000101/0001084961-22-000101-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084961/000108496122000101/ecpg-20220829.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001084961-22-000101
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001084961-22-000101.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001084961-22-000101.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  William C. Goings was appointed as director at ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Encore Capital Group, Inc. (the “Company”), upon recommendation from the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, increased the size of the Board from 8 directors to 9 directors and appointed William C. Goings as a director of the Company effective September 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084961/000108496122000101/0001084961-22-000101-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.