A consumer advocacy group said that potential changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s complaint system could make it harder for people to file complaints about credit reporting companies, debt collectors, banks and other businesses. The National Consumer Law Center said in a Friday (Jan....
PYMNTS Intelligence has detailed that consumers opt for buy now, pay later (BNPL) plans because they’re convenient and accessible. More than half of the individuals that we’ve surveyed have said that they’d used installment options through the past year. And 76% of those consumers who...
Affirm said Wednesday (March 19) that it plans to begin furnishing information about all of its payment plans to Experian on April 1. This move will expand Affirm’s credit reporting to Experian to include its pay-over-time products, in addition to the monthly installments of longer-term...
The CFPB has published its annual list of companies that collect and sell consumer data. The list, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said Thursday (Jan. 30), is designed to let consumers request their consumer reporting data, dispute inaccuracies and block access to their credit...
April 02, 2026
The latest Consumer Financial Protection Bureau data leaves little ambiguity about where the credit ecosystem is facing pressure. In data released Tuesday (March 31) by the agency in its 2025 Consumer Response Annual Report, of the more than 6.6 million complaints filed in 2025, roughly 5.8 million were tied to credit or consumer reporting, accounting […]
February 27, 2019
Lawmakers grilled the heads of Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, calling the credit reporting a “broken” system — and new legislation introduced this week has some far-reaching changes. In the meantime,...
February 05, 2026
A consumer advocacy group said that potential changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s complaint system could make it harder for people to file complaints about credit reporting companies, debt collectors, banks and other businesses. The National Consumer Law Center said in a Friday (Jan. 30) press release that a notice on the Federal Register […]
March 19, 2025
Affirm said Wednesday (March 19) that it plans to begin furnishing information about all of its payment plans to Experian on April 1. This move will expand Affirm’s credit reporting...
January 30, 2025
The CFPB has published its annual list of companies that collect and sell consumer data. The list, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said Thursday (Jan. 30), is designed to...
January 17, 2025
American Honda Finance Corporation (AHFC) reached an agreement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to settle the regulator’s allegations that the company reported inaccurate information that was then added to...