In today's digital landscape, data brokers are like modern-day gold miners, sifting through the intimate details of our lives—our addresses, financial records, Social Security numbers—and quietly turning that information into profit. Most of us never asked for this arrangement, yet ...

OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert informing Californians that it is now illegal for most forms of medical debt to appear on credit reports. Senate Bill 1061 (SB 1061), authored by Senator Monique Limón (D- Santa ...

The same day the CFPB finalized its new rule banning the inclusion of medical debt in consumers’ credit reports, the Plano, Texas-based Cornerstone Credit Union League and the Consumer Data Industry Association in Washington, D.C. filed a lawsuit in federal ...

DUBLIN - Experian (OTC:EXPGF) plc, a leading global data and technology firm, reported a robust performance for the third quarter of fiscal year 2025, ending December 31, 2024. The company announced total revenue growth of 8% at constant exchange rates, ...

A credit card being used to pay for gasoline last year in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan via Getty Images Dive Brief: Fraud losses in card payments will keep rising over the next decade, culminating in $403.88 billion of losses ...

DeSantis appoints Florida AG Ashley Moody to U.S. Senate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed state Attorney General Ashley Moody to the U.S. Senate, setting her up to fill the seat of Sen. Marco Rubio, whom President-elect Donald Trump tapped to ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has a candidate in mind to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he chose Bill Pulte, head of investment firm Pulte Capital Partners, to run the regulator of ...

In 2017, then-President Donald Trump appointed White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As a Republican member of Congress, Mulvaney had previously called the CFPB “a joke… in a sick, sad kind of way.” ...

The CFPB has issued its  final rule that will prohibit the inclusion of medical debts in credit reports lenders use to make credit decisions and that will also generally prohibit lenders from using medical debt information in making credit decisions ...