Projections Show Credit Card Debt Will Top $1 Trillion by End of 2017
Projections based on recent and historical credit card trends by WalletHub, a credit monitoring service, found that Americans added $33 billion in credit card debt over the second quarter of 2017. By the end of the year, WalletHub projects an additional $60 billion in...
Acting Comptroller Warns of Rising Costs with Arbitration Rule
Speaking to a fintech conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia earlier this week, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith Norieka informed attendees that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) recently published arbitration rule would...
CFPB Survey Finds More Than 40 Percent Struggle with Financial Well-Being
A newly published survey by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finds that 43% of consumers struggle to pay bills each month. The study, titled “Financial Well-being in America,” is a survey of more than 6,000 people across the United States in an attempt...
