The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) stands as a pivotal piece of legislation in the realm of consumer rights, particularly concerning credit information. Enacted in 1970, the FCRA was designed to ...

Usually, rent doesn’t affect your credit score — unless your payments are being reported to the major credit bureaus or debt ...

Maxine Waters (D-CA) has introduced a bill in the House called the Fair Credit Reporting Improvement Act of 2014. The bill proposes sweeping changes to almost all aspects of the credit reporting ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule in early January to take medical debt off consumer credit reports.

The landscape of consumer financial services is shifting, driven by a broader deregulatory trend at the federal level. In this environment, ...

The CFPB implements and enforces a range of consumer finance laws, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which among other things helps ensure the accuracy and privacy of people's credit reports.

On February 28, the CFPB filed a joint stipulation of voluntary dismissal with prejudice in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District ...

If you are late with a card payment by more than 30 days, your lender could report this delinquency to credit reporting agencies. This negative information about your delinquency (which the lender ...

The Treasury will no longer enforce an anti-money laundering law that Trump said was an "absolute disaster" for small businesses.