For many years now, the United States authorities had been cracking down on the call centres and scam operations from countries like India and Bangladesh which have been looting the elderly population in the U.S. Now something pretty significant has ...

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 ...

Credit unions’ not‑for‑profit, member‑owned structure lets them offer better rates, lower fees, and more member‑friendly service than most traditional banks. Here are six core advantages you can highlight under a “better rates and lower fees” umbrella. 1. Lower loan and ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, supercharging his effort to oust incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in a Republican primary runoff. Paxton and Cornyn qualified for the May 26 runoff after a March 3 primary, while ...

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 ...

A customer shops at a major discount chain store in Seoul on Wednesday. (Yonhap) Consumer sentiment rose at the fastest pace in about a year in May, driven by robust semiconductor exports and the stock market rally, the central bank ...

Social Security payments are generally “exempt from execution, levy, attachment, garnishment, or other legal process, or from the operation of any bankruptcy or insolvency law,” states the SSA. However, there are exceptions. Certain benefits can be withheld due to a ...

The CFPB has issued a revised final Section 1071 small‑business lending rule that narrows who is covered, trims data points, and pushes the compliance date out to January 1, 2028, while keeping the core 1071 data‑collection mandate intact. Big‑picture overview ...

BNPL volume hitting about 70 billion dollars refers to the yearly flow of “pay‑in‑4” style loans, not a stock of outstanding debt, but it still signals that BNPL has become a meaningful parallel credit system with growing consumer‑protection and regulatory ...