Apr 6, 2022 | Federal Regulation, Financial Literacy, News
CFPB Releases 2021 Annual Report; Credit Reporting Receives the Most Complaints While Personal Loans Near Bottom of List Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its 2021 Consumer Response Annual Report which analyzes complaints submitted by...
Apr 4, 2022 | Congressional Legislation, Financial Literacy, News
Credit Reporting Firms Announce Removal of Most Medical Debt from Credit Reports The largest credit reporting firms, Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion, recently announced they would erase billions of dollars of medical debt from consumers’ credit reports, which...
Mar 30, 2022 | Federal Regulation, Financial Literacy, News
CFPB’s Making Ends Meet Survey Finds 24% of Consumers Have No Savings Set Aside for Emergencies and 39% Have Less than a Month of Income Saved Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released insights from its Making Ends Meet Survey and...
Mar 14, 2022 | Financial Literacy, FinTech, News
Survey Finds Buy Now Pay Later Users More Likely to Overdraft A recent analysis of Morning Consult data found substantial overlap between consumers who overdraft their accounts and those who use “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) products. In January, 15 percent of all...
Mar 9, 2022 | Federal Regulation, Financial Literacy, News
CFPB Estimates $88 Billion in Medical Bills on Credit Reports Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report estimating that 43 million people had medical bills on their credit reports, with the total outstanding amount at $88 billion....
Mar 4, 2022 | Financial Literacy, News
Spending and Saving Both on the Rise, According to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, Bank of America CEO, recently revealed that American consumers are both spending more money and saving more money, noting that spending on the bank’s cards has increased as much as...