A big part of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s potential to help consumers is its ability to supervise nonbank participants in the financial industry. This far-ranging swath of companies ...

When you apply for a credit card or loan, the bank will likely pull a credit report. Those credit reports are pulled from consumer reporting agencies. The most familiar consumer reporting agencies are ...

Robin has worked as a credit cards, editor and spokesperson for over a decade. Prior to Forbes Advisor, she also covered credit cards and related content for other national web publications including ...

Credit card issuers often report to the credit bureaus at the end of every billing cycle, but the exact dates can vary. Activities like on-time or late payments and credit utilization are reported, ...

A U.S. District Court judge in the Eastern District of Texas has twice ordered a stay of the medical debt rule, which was supposed to take effect on March 15. It is now delayed to start on July 28.