Mortgage Delinquencies continue steady rise in first quarter. Here's a full breakdown of the Q1 2026 mortgage delinquency picture: Overall Rate The nationwide seasonally adjusted delinquency rate reached 4.44% in Q1 2026, up 18 basis points from Q4 2025 and ...

Synergy Capital Auto Lending, a buy-here-pay-here (BHPH) lender, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal court, with the filing driven by heavy debt and the loss of key financing. What happened Public posts from Auto Finance News and ...

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 ...

Citigroup Inc.’s C subsidiary, Citibank N.A., has reported improving performance in its credit card metrics for April 2026 in a recent SEC filing. While delinquency and net charge-off rates declined compared with the prior month and the prior-year period, principal ...

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 ...

Ministers have today introduced legislation to crackdown on late payments. The Commercial Payments Bill, which the government is dubbing its ‘Small Business Protections Bill’, introduces a clear duty on large firms to pay smaller suppliers on time. Under the legislation, ...

Go-To Guide: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a Final Rule amending Regulation B, which implements the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. The amendments limit fair lending theories by (1) eliminating all references to an “effects test” or “disparate impact” form of ...

PayPal agreed to a roughly $30 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over a DEI‑focused small‑business investment program that gave race‑based preferences, which DOJ alleged violated fair‑lending laws because it used protected traits like race and national origin ...

A Washington 911 center using an AI system from Seattle-based startup Aurelian is being described in local TV coverage as the first 911 call center in the U.S. to use AI, but similar AI tools have already been deployed in ...