Debt collector reporting of a collection is separate. Lack of reporting, or reporting and deletion, by the creditor is not basis for deletion of reproting by the debt collector.
Reporting of a collection is of the fact that they received collection authority, either by way of assigned authoirty from the owner, or by their purchase of the debt.
Deletion of a reported collection is only required under CRA policy if the debt collector has had their collection authority terminated without satisfaction of the debt.
The credtor may have decided to delete their reporting of their own account for various reasons, such as they have sold the debt and no longer care about future events, or they simply no longer wish to maintiain responsibility for updating their reporting or entertaiining any disputes over its accuracy.
Those reasons do not affect the fact that the debt collector may still have collection authority.
