The fastest-growing mortgage delinquency has been concentrated in a band of Southern and some Midwestern states, with recent data pointing especially to Mississippi, Louisiana, Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, and parts of Florida/Minnesota counties as seeing the ...

BNPL volume hitting about 70 billion dollars refers to the yearly flow of “pay‑in‑4” style loans, not a stock of outstanding debt, but it still signals that BNPL has become a meaningful parallel credit system with growing consumer‑protection and regulatory ...

AI is rapidly evolving from an experimental tool into the foundational infrastructure of India's fintech sector, embedding itself across critical operational functions including underwriting, fraud detection, KYC verification, compliance monitoring, and customer support. Industry executives report that AI has shifted ...

The headline refers to a new ATTOM/Q2 2026 “Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure” report showing that the number of zombie homes rose quarter‑over‑quarter in 38 states and D.C, even though zombies remain a tiny share of the overall housing stock ...

Even with insurance, millions of Americans with serious illnesses are trapped in a cycle of deductibles, debt collectors and annually resetting medical bills. Jeni Rae Peters was a single mother and mental health counselor in Rapid City, South Dakota, when ...

Jason Brown and David Silberman In 2010, as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Drawing upon a proposal that then-Professor Elizabeth Warren had put forward several years ...

ABA and several other trade groups are backing the CFPB’s new mortgage-regulation reform agenda, while urging the Bureau to prioritize finalizing existing rulemakings and to focus changes on cost, complexity, and community-bank relief. What the ABA article is about The ...

The housing industry has lost an icon. Barney Frank, who helped author one of the most significant regulatory overhauls since the Great Depression, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his home in Ogunquit, Maine. He was 86. The liberal ...

News20.05.262.00 PM by Alex Daniel Rules designed to crack down on late payments to contractors have taken a step closer to becoming law, two months after ministers unveiled the measures. The rules were introduced to the House of Lords on Tuesday ...