Built on trust Experian’s foray into ChatGPT builds on the company’s extensive data capabilities and decades of experience helping consumers make confident financial decisions. By meeting users where they already research and compare products, the company aims to streamline the ...

Equifax USIS has appointed Arun Gupta as Senior Vice President and Chief Data Officer. He will lead the USIS Data Organization, overseeing strategic investments in alternative, consumer, and commercial data, as well as centralized data platforms and strategy for the ...

Some call them predatory loans. Title loans with interest rates so high they’ll make your knees buckle. We discovered that title loan businesses in Tennessee can charge rates up to 264 percent. If you’re already struggling, this is the kind ...

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Reddit $19.5 million after finding that the company failed to use children’s personal information lawfully, exposing them to inappropriate and harmful content. The investigation found that Reddit did not apply an age ...

Block (the parent of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, and Tidal) is cutting roughly 40% of its workforce—more than 4,000 of about 10,000 employees—and its CEO Jack Dorsey is explicitly framing advances in AI and “intelligence tools” as the central reason ...

I wrote an earlier column about an FTC action against a company that led people to believe they were buying comprehensive health insurance. Simple Health claimed its plans would cover preexisting medical conditions, prescription drugs, primary and secondary specialty care, ...

The 2026 Budget provided an update on the South African Revenue Service’s (SARS) recent efforts to improve the collection of outstanding tax debt. This discussion is notable because it provides measurable insight into SARS’ recovery performance against the quantitative targets ...

AMID AUTO MARKET HEADWINDS AND RISING CONSUMER STRESS, data-driven insights-not instinct-are now the critical path to sustaining profitability. Equifax outlined this data-first, AI-driven strategy for dealership profitability at the recent National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) show, where Emmaline Aliff, Advisory ...

The FTC has issued a narrow COPPA enforcement “safe harbor” around data used solely for age verification, but it is not a blanket waiver for privacy or other legal risks. What the statement does The FTC says it will not ...