New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) is finalizing an amended debt collection rule—branded the SHIELD rule—that significantly expands consumer rights to challenge debts (especially medical debt), tightens communication limits, and squarely brings many first‑party creditors (including ...

Boca Raton, FL – February 25, 2026 – The Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller, Palm Beach County is offering a lifeline to anyone with overdue traffic tickets or court fines in Palm Beach County by waiving the 25 percent ...

Encore Capital Group logo Record 2025 results: Encore posted global portfolio purchases of $1.4B, collections of $2.6B and estimated remaining collections of $9.7B, drove net income of $257M and EPS of $10.91, while reducing leverage to 2.4x and repurchasing about ...

Trump cannot clearly “fire nearly all CFPB staff” as a matter of settled law, and the D.C. Circuit itself is now wrestling with how far courts may go in policing Trump‑era efforts to purge roughly 90% of the Bureau’s workforce ...

UBS has raised its worst‑case forecast for private credit defaults to about 14–15%, mainly in a scenario where AI causes rapid, severe disruption to corporate borrowers, especially in tech and software. What UBS is actually saying UBS strategists, led by ...

Key Takeaways Credit One Bank has agreed to pay $10.2 million to settle a civil lawsuit alleging that Credit One made frequent and harassing phone calls to California phone numbers in an attempt to collect consumer debts. According to the ...

Feb 26, 2026 A significant number of federal student loan borrowers entered default status at the close of the previous year, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The latest Household Debt and Credit Report indicates ...

By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team on February 25, 2026 POSTED IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI), CONSUMER FINANCIAL SERVICES, HEALTH SCIENCES/PHARMACEUTICALS, STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL On February 24, the New Jersey State Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment of Jennifer Davenport ...

New York has proposed “nation‑leading” regulations to bring buy now, pay later (BNPL) providers under a formal licensing, supervision, and consumer‑protection regime, implementing a BNPL statute enacted in the FY 2026 state budget. Core structure of the proposal The rules ...