While CROA focuses on regulating credit repair companies, other federal laws are focused on protecting consumers. The Fair ...

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Equifax to pay $15 million after it “failed to conduct adequate ...

Opposition is quickly forming against the Biden administration’s rule to ban medical debt from appearing on consumers’ credit ...

The agency estimated the rule will remove more than $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million Americans.

For the “failure to conduct proper investigations of consumer disputes,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) last ...

A top watchdog agency for consumer finance has accused the credit rating company Experian of failing to properly investigate consumer disputes. In an announcement Tuesday, the Consumer Financial ...

During the week of January 6, the CFPB released a “second” Winter 2024 Supervisory Highlights, focused on the agency’s most recent findings ...

Experian was sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which accused the Costa Mesa-based credit bureau of failing to ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has imposed a $15 million fine on Equifax, a consumer reporting agency, for failing ...

With the new lawsuits, consumers with medical debt will be stuck in the middle but experts say there are options.

The CFPB’s finalized rule essentially restores a provision of the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970, which restricted the sharing of medical information with consumer reporting agencies. Exemptions ...