Danger Will Robinson! Rohit Chopra, the former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has been hired by a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general to lead a new blue-state consumer protection and affordability initiative targeting abusive business practices.​ ...

USPS updates postmark guidelines: What to know Learn how USPS postmark changes may affect delivery of ballots, bills, and important documents, prompting the need for early mailing. The United States Postal Service has changed the postmark process going into 2026, ...

LITTLETON, Mass. and CHESTERTOWN, Md., Jan. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hanscom Federal Credit Union ("Hanscom" or "HFCU") today announced the completion of its previously announced purchase and assumption transaction involving the majority of assets and liabilities of The Peoples Bank ...

U.S. foreclosure activity in November 2025 increased sharply compared with a year earlier, even though it ticked down a bit from October.​ Key national numbers About 35,651 properties had a foreclosure filing (default notice, scheduled auction, or bank repossession), down ...

Experian has announced that its full commercial credit data is now directly available inside the cloud-based Ascend analytics and decisioning platform, so lenders and other organisations can run analysis and build models on that data in one place. This is ...

SOUTH BEND, IN (WSBT) — Indiana will see new laws taking effect at the start of the new year. One new law focuses on how Hoosiers protect their personal data. The Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act promotes data transparency and ...

The delinquency rate for commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) ended 2025 with a four basis points uptick to 7.30%, according to data from Trepp Inc. Year-over-year, the overall CMBS delinquency rate is up 73 basis points from 6.57%. However, Trepp noted ...

Earned wage access products are not subject to the Truth in Lending Act or Regulation Z, according to the bureau. In a move to end years of regulatory ping-pong, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a new advisory opinion on ...

First Federal Bank has struck a deal to acquire the assets of Fidelity Bank’s mortgage division, NOLA Lending Group, expanding its retail footprint into Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Florida-based First Federal Bank, ...