Personal Finance News - 'regulations' Tag

Over the last few months, the topic of student debt has been hotly debated as lenders report an increase in not just loan balances, but also delinquencies in this category of lending.

There has been significant improvement in the overall economy across the whole country of late and according to experts this has resulted in fewer consumers having to seek out protection from aggressive creditors by filing for bankruptcy.

Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Jon Leibowitz called his agency’s new privacy framework a “decisive moment for consumer privacy” when addressing Congress earlier this month.

A sticker was recently spotted in the window of a taxi cab in Dallas, Texas, stating that a person’s identity may be stolen if they use their credit card to pay for their ride.

Credit Card issuing giants American Express are now offering credit cards that a customer must pay in full every month in addition to ones that allow the borrower to have a balance at the end of each month for which …

When I started living in Florida, I laughed at the temperatures of its winter but when I received my first winter electricity bill, it was quite a shock for me that it costs tremendously to keep the house nice and …

This past week saw MasterCard shares reach an all time high as the company posted a solid third quarter report which blew all estimates out of the water.

A federal judge has ruled that one of the first lawsuits filed against the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can move forward.

Major payment processing networks MasterCard and Visa have announced their intention to levy the highest allowable debit card fees on merchants for smaller debit card purchases.

The latest statistics show that around 75 percent of our daily mail is made up of junk mail. This often includes credit card solicitations, advertising and other junk mail we have no interest in and end up discarding unread.

According to a report released by the U.S. Department of Education, the number of individuals who are defaulting on student loans has increased this year.

The Federal Trade Commission has issued some new guidelines, effective 29 August 2011, which are intended to standardize how debt collection agency behave when trying to claim debts from relatives of the recently deceased.

According to a Federal Report issued last Thursday, credit card companies are still aggressively pushing credit cards to college students and alumni despite new transparency and regulation.

Some businesses are no longer accepting credit cards as a method of payment in an attempt to reduce the amount of money they spend on processing card payments.

Big name banks across the country are being forced to create living wills, also known as resolution plans, which will provide federal regulators with instructions on how to dismantle them in the event of the bank falling into bankruptcy and …