The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed an amicus brief Thursday (Jan. 16), saying it aims to ensure that credit reporting companies are held accountable for “junk...
Medical debt will no longer appear on consumers’ credit reports under a new government rule. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)’s newly-finalized regulation, announced by the White House Tuesday...
Last December, PYMNTS Intelligence detailed in its “Credit Card Use Deep Dive” report that about 14% of the more than 3,500 consumers surveyed had subprime...
As the year draws to a close, the end of 2024 has been marked by a flurry of rule-making by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
If information is power, the lack of information creates a vacuum, especially in small business banking. As to what’s needed? Call it a single source...
DailyPay has debuted “Credit Health,” a tool to help users monitor their financial wellness. Announced Monday (Sept. 16), the offering is integrated into the earned...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced proposed settlements in a case involving the owners and operators of credit repair operation Financial Education Services (FES). The proposed...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued a proposed rule that would ban medical bills from credit reports. The proposed rule would stop credit reporting companies...
The FICO score — what we might think of as the general “shorthand” for lending — was created back in 1989. In the decades since,...