A unit inside the C.F.P.B. protects servicemembers and veterans from financial scams. The Trump Administration has tried to stop it.

Those credit reports are pulled from consumer reporting agencies. The most familiar consumer reporting agencies are ones ...

Welcome to the “Data Privacy and Cybersecurity” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review.

New York state officials are pushing for additional state-level protections for consumers and small businesses as federal ...

Goodwin tracked four public enforcement actions related to credit reporting or credit repair services, consistent with the four ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was launched in 2011 in response to the 2008 banking crisis, which destabilized millions of Americans. This new U.S. government agency' ...

New CFPB rules may erase $49 billion in medical debt from credit reports, boosting credit scores for 15 million Americans if enforcement proceeds.

A credit sweep is a fraudulent credit repair tactic that disputes all negative items on a credit report at once.

The Indigo credit card is designed to help people with bad credit build a better credit history, but it comes at a cost.

FICO CEO William Lansing has burnished the credit score’s dominance and pushed through price hikes, making a bundle for ...

The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA) was enacted in 1970 and was last amended in 2003 to protect your credit information and ...

The US treasury department announced that it will halt enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act's Beneficial Ownership Information reporting requirements for US citizens and domestic firms.