Overall debt levels held by Americans rose modestly in the final quarter of last year on a healthy consumer sector, even as ...

It seems like suddenly everyone is an "expert" on FERPA, an obscure privacy law that most of us had never heard of a week ago ...

Borrowers who got home loans through government-backed programs are increasingly falling behind on their payments, a potentially worrying signal for how lower-income Americans are faring in today’s ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a go-to financial agency for dealing with bad practices. Trump ...

An overhaul of the federal student loan system proposed by House Republicans could push monthly student loan payments up by ...

Increasing inflation could have an impact on the type of debt consolidation it makes sense to pursue right now.

President Trump and Elon Musk are threatening the Education Department. Nothing has concretely changed for borrowers, yet.

Researchers from the New York Fed said auto loans are a major stressor for consumers. The rate of auto loans that ...

The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for the consumers ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest U.S. government agency to have its work halted by the Trump administration ...

Organizations are suing the Trump administration to prevent closure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

President Trump and other critics of the agency say it needs to be shut down. Supporters of the agency point to its record of protecting consumers.