The national mortgage delinquency rate in April was 3.35%, mostly unchanged from March but up 4.17% from one year earlier, according to data from Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (NYSE: ICE). Serious delinquencies declined seasonally in April for the second month in ...

Jason Brown and David Silberman In 2010, as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Drawing upon a proposal that then-Professor Elizabeth Warren had put forward several years ...

She introduced herself as Eve, but Ben knew right away that the voice on the other end of the line was a bot. Eve knew his name. She also knew how much money he’d owed a former landlord ($266). She ...

Ministers have introduced new laws giving stronger powers to investigate and fine firms that persistently fail to pay smaller suppliers on time, with potential penalties worth tens of millions. The Small Business Protections Bill proposes a new 60-day cap on ...

ABA and several other trade groups are backing the CFPB’s new mortgage-regulation reform agenda, while urging the Bureau to prioritize finalizing existing rulemakings and to focus changes on cost, complexity, and community-bank relief. What the ABA article is about The ...

The CFPB, under the Trump administration, has removed roughly 15 years of public-facing historical content from its website, wiping all newsroom items, speeches, blog posts, public statements, and informal guidance published before February 2025. What was removed According to reporting, ...

The housing industry has lost an icon. Barney Frank, who helped author one of the most significant regulatory overhauls since the Great Depression, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his home in Ogunquit, Maine. He was 86. The liberal ...

Show summary Hide summary Private credit defaults reached a record high of 6.0% in the twelve months ended April 2026, according to Fitch Ratings, marking the most stressed environment in the modern lending cycle. This milestone reflects a fundamental shift ...

Small businesses in sectors including legal, healthcare, and IT could be among the biggest winners from the government’s new crackdown on late payments, according to new research from Hiscox. The Small Business Protections Bill, introduced to Parliament last week and ...