Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will accept a credit scoring model for mortgage applications that captures rent and utility ...

Congress should not have created the CFPB. Multiple federal agencies already existed to enforce consumer protection laws. The ...

A tax and spending package Trump signed July 4 nearly halves the watchdog’s annual funding. Resources may be stretched to police consumer financial laws.

The personal impact of the 2008 housing crisis on a student's family reveals why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau matters as Trump administration cuts enforcement ...

Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte announced that lenders may start using VantageScore, a rival to the Fair ...

A credit monitoring service can notify you when a credit application has been made in your name. Here are our favorites.

Bankruptcy damages your credit and stays on your credit reports for years. Fortunately, you can rebuild your credit score ...

Pay Later adoption has skyrocketed in the country in recent years, with service providers like Klarna topping 2-million users ...

Anne Wojcicki’s nonprofit gets court approval to buy 23andMe for $305 million Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dismisses ...

Democratic legislators are moving forward with a bill intended to curb excessive fees levied by financial institutions when a customer has insufficient funds to cover a transaction. Proponents of the ...

The company behind FICO credit scores announced plans to include buy now, pay later installment loans in users’ scores beginning this fall.

Nobody needs a burrito badly enough to pay for it in multiple installments, yet this is the world we’re living in today.