FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM THE WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS DFI’s Statement of Charges seeks to order Newrez to stop alleged violations of the law, fix consumer issues, and pay a fine of $4,175,000 - one of DFI's most significant ...

SBA & Federal Debt Advisory Services has just released a plain‑language guide for borrowers facing federal collection of SBA loans, especially once the debt is at Treasury/Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Key points from the new guide SBA disaster and ...

Congress has spent years debating a national privacy law and has little to show for it. States have stopped waiting. In March alone, Oklahoma, Colorado and California each took significant steps to regulate how companies collect data, use artificial intelligence and enforce privacy rights ...

The headline refers to a new FCC proposal to tighten “Know Your Customer” (KYC) and related obligations on voice providers to reduce illegal robocalls, including expanded customer vetting, verification, and stronger penalties for KYC failures. What the FCC is proposing ...

RESTON, Va., April 08, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nacha today welcomed Walrus Security as a Nacha Preferred Partner for Account Validation, Fraud Monitoring, and Risk and Fraud Prevention. Walrus Security's DoubleCheck platform verifies the authenticity of ACH payment details before the payments are ...

When a customer walks into Prosper’s Farmers Bank & Trust, they aren’t just a number; they’re greeted by name. What starts as a quick check-in often turns into a conversation about a new business idea, a specialized loan or a ...

The headline refers to new data from South Korea’s Income-Contingent Loan (ICL) program showing record student-loan stress among young borrowers. What the numbers mean The 19.4% figure is the cumulative delinquency rate by amount for 2025 ICL repayments, meaning nearly ...

A proposal to create a comprehensive data privacy law in Maine was unable to recover after sizable business pushback led several Democrats to join Republicans in opposition, marking the second Legislature that has failed to get such a plan over ...

The number of corporate bankruptcies in Japan topped 10,000 in fiscal 2025 for the second straight year, as high prices and labor shortages weighed on small and medium-sized firms, a survey by a credit research company showed Wednesday. Bankruptcies involving ...