In a bit of a surprise development at the end of 2024, the United States Senate passed the Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act, which amends the ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on Jan. 17, 2025, that Equifax, one of the three major credit bureaus, must pay a $15 million penalty for not conducting ...

On January 7, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) published a final Rule (the “Rule”) that prohibits consumer reporting ...

With the new lawsuits, consumers with medical debt will be stuck in the middle but experts say there are options.

Biden's rule to ban medical debt from credit reports is facing lawsuits from industry groups and criticism from GOP lawmakers ...

Equifax will pay a $15 million penalty for failing to properly investigate credit report disputes.

The regulatory agency said it is ordering Honda Finance to pay $10.3 million redress to consumers and a $2.5 million civil penalty. Honda Finance, which is an auto-finance subsidiary of American Honda ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has imposed a $15 million fine on Equifax, a consumer reporting agency, for failing ...

The CFPB cited Equifax’s failure to investigate disputes and resolve errors as part of its crackdown on credit reporting.

One of the nation’s largest credit reporting agencies has been fined $15 million for issuing inaccurate credit scores and ...

The FICO® Score, used by 90% of top US lenders, is the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the US and ... Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking ...