PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Experts are urging parents to take proactive measures for their child as soon as possible to protect their child's identity and financial future. Freezing your child's credit, financial experts say, is the best defense against scammers who ...

The fight over whether the Trump administration can effectively shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has moved to the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which will hear en banc argument on February 24, 2026, with the ...

AI technology has “fundamentally changed” the fraud threat, warns sector body America’s Credit Unions (ACU), making it easier than ever to mount a cyber attack. “What once required technical expertise and significant resources can now be executed at scale using ...

Photo: PenFed Credit Union February 25, 2026 PenFed Credit Union opened a financial center in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. This is part of an effort of the credit union to expand its financial services to the U.S. Virgin Islands, ...

Among U.S. metro areas with populations of 200,000 or more, Trenton recorded the nation’s worst foreclosure rate in January 2026, with one filing for every 1,087 housing units, according to ATTOM, a leading U.S. property data platform and analytics provider.  Nationwide, there were a total of 40,534 U.S. properties ...

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Reddit $19.5 million after finding that the company failed to use children’s personal information lawfully, exposing them to inappropriate and harmful content. The investigation found that Reddit did not apply an age ...

New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration is warning that city finances remain in dire shape as sales and property tax revenue trickles in more slowly than expected and payments on a $125 million emergency loan come due. Addressing the City ...

While Delinquency Rates Have Begun to Ease, They are Still Elevated Relative to Pre-Pandemic Norms ATLANTA, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Equifax® (NYSE: EFX) has released its Market Pulse Fourth Quarter U.S. Consumer Credit Trends, which includes U.S. national consumer credit ...

Trump cannot clearly “fire nearly all CFPB staff” as a matter of settled law, and the D.C. Circuit itself is now wrestling with how far courts may go in policing Trump‑era efforts to purge roughly 90% of the Bureau’s workforce ...