The department’s new best practices for default prevention include dedicated borrower portals and earnings-based counseling. The department is also working on a proposed rulemaking on tuition reduction and simplified repayment. The U.S. Department of Education has issued new guidance urging ...

Best Value AI Legal Document Solutions LONDON, Feb. 23, 2026/PRNewswire/ -- DocLegal.ai, a leading global provider of AI-powered legal document services, today issued a formal public warning regarding a website operating under the domain Doclegal.io. The '.io' site offers legal template ...

Experian, the global data and technology company, announced it has acquired AtData (see Pulse 2.0 profile here), a data and intelligence company known for its email insights technology. The deal is designed to expand Experian’s identity and fraud prevention capabilities ...

Five years after the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) guaranteed more than $100 million to what’s billed as the “world’s largest manure biogas project”, the loans are in delinquency, which, along with operational failures and underperformance at such plants, has ...

Wells Fargo has appointed Dennis Devine as its new head of Business Banking, effective in late February 2026. Key facts Role and scope: Devine will lead Wells Fargo’s Business Banking unit serving business customers with annual sales of up to ...

 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Community Credit Union (First Community) proudly announced the achievement of a major strategic milestone, reaching $2.9 billion in assets, marking the successful attainment of a long‑term organizational goal. In celebration, First Community is honoring its people‑first ...

Credit One Bank has agreed to pay $10.2 million to resolve a civil consumer protection lawsuit brought by a coalition of California district attorneys over allegedly harassing debt collection calls to California consumers. Core allegations Prosecutors alleged that Credit One ...

Republicans on the House Government Oversight Committee approved the committee’s report Tuesday recommending an independent audit and transfer of the judicial branch’s court debt collection system to an outside firm.Rep. Charley Thomson, R-Charles City, authored the committee report investigating the ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 24, 2026 CONTACT: Jarice Thompson, jarice@ourfinancialsecurity.org Nearly 100 Groups Are Standing Up for a Strong, Robust, and Independent CFPB Any attack on the CFPB’s independence or ability to fulfil its consumer protection mandate is an attack ...