Equifax (NYSE: EFX) secured 27 patents in the second half of 2025, bringing the total number of patents secured for the year to 62. Twenty of these patents support the company’s approach to artificial intelligence, complementing its EFX.AI strategy and ...

FCC Chair Brendan Carr is publicly praising President Donald Trump’s new executive order on artificial intelligence, describing it as a decisive move to create national AI standards and curb state-level regulations he views as excessive. Carr argues the order will ...

Maryland commission investigating complaints about BGE bills, customer service The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) is actively investigating a surge in customer complaints about Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) bills and customer service, including long call-center wait times and difficulty ...

Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s biweekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it every other Friday afternoon. – A new proposal from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) involving the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) has ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has approved a plan to distribute just over $46 million from its Civil Penalty Fund to people whose money was frozen in the Synapse collapse, but that amount will cover only about half of ...

Education is one of our core pillars, and empowering students with financial knowledge helps our entire community grow. To support this initiative, ValleyStar Credit Union is donating $20,000 to the P&HCC Foundation to enhance financial literacy resources and bolster student ...

Credit cards have solidified their dominance in high-value consumer spending in India, while Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has emerged as the go-to method for everyday transactions, according to a recent report by Worldline. The findings reveal a significant shift in ...

KEY TAKEAWAYS Millions of borrowers on the Saving for a Valuable Education plan will soon need to move to another repayment plan and resume making payments for the first time in over a year. Depending on a borrower's situation, their ...

A proposed settlement aims to end the federal student loan forgiveness plan. This follows a successful legal challenge by several states, which led the courts to block the plan. The U.S. Department of Education has reached a proposed settlement agreement ...