Student (school) loan delinquencies in the U.S. have climbed back to roughly pre‑pandemic levels, with on the order of six million borrowers now past due and clear signs of rising financial stress for many households. This jump is showing up ...

Order requires company to clearly and conspicuously display total monthly leasing price and mandatory fees Greystar, the nation’s largest multi-family rental property manager, has agreed to pay $23 million to the Federal Trade Commission and $1 million to the State ...

Absolute Home Mortgage Corporation has struck a deal to acquire the assets of Fidelity Direct Mortgage (FDM), the company confirmed on Tuesday. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Absolute — a mid-size independent mortgage bank based in Fairfield, ...

Federal regulators have ramped up their scrutiny of ed-tech companies in the wake of a string of high-profile school data breaches in recent years, and the Federal Trade Commission’s latest action against Illuminate Education is another signal that regulators will ...

Need to Know: Seven out of ten financial institutions are seeing major increases in financial fraud. Citadel Credit Union is attacking the problem with a combination of AI, trained staff and law enforcement allies. Citadel’s key fraud metrics have been ...

Indiana’s new Consumer Data Protection Act (INCDPA) takes effect January 1, 2026, and the Attorney General has released a Consumer Data Privacy Bill of Rights to help Hoosiers understand and use their new data rights.​ What the new law does ...

Banks are central to the private credit boom because they provide funding, leverage, deal flow, and risk-transfer structures that allow private lenders to scale far beyond their own unlevered capital. Regulation has pushed banks to hold fewer risky loans directly, ...

AI enables “frictionless” debt collection by using data and automation to make repayment more personalized, convenient, and compliant while reducing pressure on consumers and costs for lenders. Instead of aggressive, one‑size‑fits‑all tactics, AI helps orchestrate the right channel, message, timing, ...

From Discovery Federal Credit Union It’s that time of year again — the season of giving, gratitude, and celebrating the good within our community. For the third year in a row, Discovery Federal Credit Union is proud to continue the ...