The High Court in London on 15 January 2026 ruled that the UK’s Payment Systems Regulator has the power to impose price caps on cross-border interchange fees, rejecting a legal challenge by Revolut, Visa and Mastercard. The judgment clears the ...

Today, the White House announced an indefinite pause of the collection of defaulted federal student loan debt, including through the Treasury Offset Program, which applies any tax refunds towards a defaulted borrower’s outstanding federal student loan debt.   This pause ...

House Oversight Hearing on FCC Puts Chairman in Spotlight The phrase “House Oversight Hearing on FCC Puts Chairman in Spotlight” refers to a January 2026 House Communications and Technology Subcommittee oversight hearing where FCC Chairman Brendan Carr faced intense, highly ...

New figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that consumer car finance new business by value and volume in November 2025 was at a similar level to the same month in 2024. In the eleven months to ...

U.S. foreclosure activity did rise in 2025, but the data and experts describe it as a normalization or “market recalibration” rather than the start of a 2008‑style crisis.​ What actually happened in 2025 Around 367,460 U.S. properties had foreclosure filings ...

Experian’s new “Perceptions of AI” study finds that most major financial institutions now view AI as critical to their lending strategy, with usage rapidly expanding across the entire lending lifecycle. The research highlights both the expected benefits (efficiency, accuracy, risk ...

Anytime Fitness is being sued in a new Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action that alleges the company sent unsolicited prerecorded telemarketing voicemails to consumers, including people on the National Do Not Call Registry.​ What the lawsuit claims Plaintiff ...

The phrase refers to a recent FTC enforcement action in which the agency is asking a federal court to hold payment processor Cliq, Inc. (formerly CardFlex, Inc.) and two executives in contempt for allegedly violating a 2015 court order tied ...

Tanyapong Thamavaranukupt, co-president of Thai fintech Ascend Money, sees spending patterns—like magazine subscriptions or mobile bills—as a signal of creditworthiness, particularly in markets like Southeast Asia which have both a large underbanked population and underdeveloped financial institutions. “We don’t rely ...