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Consumer FinanceHave We Seen The Bottom Of The Student Loan Delinquency...
Long before the advent of the COVID-19 epidemic and the litany of financial and...
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CFPBCFPB’s Debt Collection, Payday Lending Rules Come Under Fire In...
Payday lending practices again came under fire Wednesday (Oct. 16) from members of the...
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Alternative FinancesPayPal Lowers Installment Credit Threshold To $30 - $99 Purchases
Consumers now have a range of promotional financing deals to choose from the online...
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InvestmentsIPO-Bound Credit Sesame Raises $43M
As U.S. household debt climbs, financial health startup Credit Sesame has raised $43 million...
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Alternative FinancesBringing Debt Management Into The Digital Age
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns...
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EconomyRevolving Credit Balances Rise 5 Pct In May
The debt balances climb ever higher. In the latest data reported by the Federal...
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EconomyCanada's Insolvencies Jump In March To Highest Level In Eight...
Consumers in Canada filed 11,963 insolvencies in March, up 5 percent from a year...
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DebtMixed Performance For Bank Credit Card Delinquencies In February
Credit card delinquency rate reports are trickling in on a bank-by-bank basis and a...
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EconomyDefault Rates Remain Stable In First Month Of New Year
S&P Dow Jones Indices and Experian Wednesday (Feb. 20) released the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit...
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EconomyAmericans Aren’t Struggling Despite Rising Consumer Debt
Consumer debt is at a record level — but in terms of handling it,...
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DebtOct. Consumer Credit Logs Fastest Gains In 11 Months
The willingness to take on debt and open wallets, at least here, remains unabated....
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DebtLendingTree: US Consumer Debt Approaching $4T
LendingTree said in its debt report for the month of November that based on...
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Consumer FinanceHow The New FICO Will Change The Credit Landscape For...
After years of focusing nearly entirely on a consumer’s payment history, FICO has announced...
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LoansGoldman Tightens Marcus Lending Reins
Goldman Sachs might be reining in its online lending platform due to concerns about...
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LoansFed Rate Hike Hits Consumer Confidence
Last week brought a confluence of economic headlines that are slated to hit the...
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LegalFraudsters Accused In $364M Ponzi Debt Scheme
Federal prosecutors have charged three men who allegedly ran a $364 million Ponzi scheme....
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Consumer FinanceA Decade On, Lending Transformed By Crisis And Innovation
Necessity is the mother of invention. Invention can become necessity. And in lending, with...
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EuropeUK Debt Advice Providers Lack Funding To Keep Up With...
As consumer debt levels in the U.K. are on the rise and debt collection...
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EconomyThe Concerning Creep In Consumer Debt
U.S. consumer debt has been on the rise for the last year and hit...
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HealthcareHow Much Can Technology Improve Healthcare Payments?
Among the latest hopes for healthcare payments is blockchain. Touted by observers and industry...
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NewsFive At Five: Why Can’t Macy’s Impress Morgan Stanley?
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments...
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DebtAmerican Consumer Debt To Hit $4 Trillion By EOY
New data shows that Americans are on pace to accumulate a collective $4 trillion...
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LoansTwenty Percent Of Mortgage Loans Top 45 Percent Of Monthly...
New data shows that rising home prices are translating into mortgage loan debt not...
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BankingOverdue US Card Debt Hits 7-Year High
The U.S. consumer credit picture continues to look grim as 2018 is coming into...
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DebtUS Household Debt Spikes In Q4 2017
Thanks in part to a rising number of mortgage loans, the debt levels of...
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Sizzle/FizzleQR Codes Sizzle, Smart Parts Fizzle And Facebook Bows Out...
Facebook’s M Fizzles While most of the week was dedicated to the cohort of players...
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InvestmentsAmid The Good (Stock Market) Cheer, Clouds Gather?
Nine years is a long time for anything to run — a TV show, your...
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DebtAmericans’ Debt Level Hits New High
America’s debt level hit another record high in the second quarter, after having surpassed...
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Consumer FinanceConsumers Making Less Than $40K Per Year Worried About Paying...
A new survey has found that a divide is emerging over how Americans feel...
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Consumer FinanceHousehold Borrowing, Consumer Debt, Reaches Record $12.73 Trillion
With incomes in the U.S. seeing less-than-stellar growth, a lot of spending is being...
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Consumer FinanceBoA Says Half Of All Workers Stressed Out Over Money
Bank of America Merrill Lynch released a new study Thursday (June 1) that shows...
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Alternative FinancesAmericans Are Borrowing Like It’s 2008 ... Sort Of
It took almost a full decade, but Americans’ debt level has reached a new...
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DebtAs Consumers Take On More Debt, Credit Card Losses Rise
As U.S. consumers become more comfortable with carrying higher levels of debt, the biggest...
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InnovationA Kinder, Gentler Debt Collector?
They say that necessity is the mother of invention. “I came from a poor...
- Consumer Finance
US Consumer Borrowing Up
Fueled by school loans and purchases of new cars, U.S. consumers borrowed more in...
- Consumer Insights
Are Americans Carrying Way Too Much Debt Again?
It looks like Americans will soon be partying like it is 2008 — when...
