The phrase refers to a looming cash-flow and governance crisis at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), not to the constitutionality of its funding structure, which the Supreme Court already upheld in 2024.​ What the Supreme Court Already Decided In ...

Several popular U.S. companies filed for bankruptcy in 2025 as economic pressures continued to weigh on retailers, restaurant operators, and manufacturers. Rising inflation and shifting consumer habits have hit pharmacy chains, jewelry retailers, automotive suppliers, fragrance brands, and restaurant operators ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has approved a plan to distribute just over $46 million from its Civil Penalty Fund to people whose money was frozen in the Synapse collapse, but that amount will cover only about half of ...

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) secured 27 patents in the second half of 2025, bringing the total number of patents secured for the year to 62. Twenty of these patents support the company’s approach to artificial intelligence, complementing its EFX.AI strategy and ...

Consumer advocates say the CFPB’s new proposal to amend Regulation B under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) would significantly weaken long‑standing fair‑lending protections and make discrimination in credit markets harder to detect and remedy. They warn it would especially ...

An economy can post “A+++++” headline numbers like strong GDP growth and low unemployment while still seeing many bankruptcies because averages hide severe stress in specific sectors, smaller firms, and indebted households.​ Hidden weakness beneath averages Headline data are dominated ...

The headline refers to new data showing that about 3% of U.S. home mortgages were delinquent (at least one payment past due) in September, essentially unchanged from a year earlier and from the prior quarter, though there are growing signs ...

Apple on Wednesday released an updated developer license agreement that gives the company permission to recoup unpaid funds, such as commissions or any other fees, by deducting them from in-app purchases it processes on developers’ behalf, among other methods. The ...

700Credit says a network breach exposed names, Social Security numbers and financial data of 5.8m+ Americans, prompting regulators and law firms to warn of identity theft risks. Summary 700Credit reported to the Maine Attorney General that 5,836,521 people were affected ...