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 ...

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.

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.

SEATTLE — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a federal agency that, up until a few weeks ago, policed some of the largest and most powerful financial and tech companies in America. It ...

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.

TransUnion's Q1 2025 report highlights nuanced consumer credit trends amid rising costs and interest rates, revealing varied balance growth. TransUnion's Q1 2025 Credit Industry Insights Report ...

What are business credit bureaus and how do they work? Financing a young company often depends on a record most founders don’t even realize exists: their business credit file. These files are created ...