Credit bureaus collect and maintain records on your credit accounts, balances and the payments you make. The three major credit bureaus are Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Each credit bureau ...

It’s a good idea to check your credit reports from the three credit agencies regularly, and when consumers get their report from Equifax they may notice some changes. The company has unveiled a newly ...

If certain state laws are voided, millions of consumers with unpaid medical debt could see negative marks appear — or reappear — on their credit reports.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress established to monitor credit card companies, mortgage providers, debt collectors and other segments of the consumer finance ...

The remnants of a federal consumer protection watchdog has asked the court to vacate its own regulation barring medical debt from credit scores. In a joint motion, the Consumer Financial Protection ...

Stalled lawsuits. Halted supervision and oversight. Suspended workforce. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in the midst of a complete overhaul that could cripple its ability to act as the ...

For many consumers, 2024 was a mixed bag of pluses and minuses when it came to credit. Many borrowers with lower fixed-rate mortgages considered themselves lucky and resisted the urge to move or sell.

“To rebuild your credit, you first need to get some credit, which is often the hardest part if you have a low credit score ...

An effort to clear medical debt from people’s credit reports has lost its primary supporter, making the rule far more likely to be defanged or dropped altogether. The rule was promulgated by the ...

White House rescinds a protection for consumer credit scores because it aligns with deregulation rather than consumer financial security.

A “faulty” transfer of student loan accounts from Nelnet to Mohela in 2023 led to “millions of consumer credit reporting errors,” lawmakers say in a new letter to government agencies reviewed by CNBC.