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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, left, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, right. Photos: Michael Marciano/Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM Forty-one attorneys general—including from Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Texas and New Jersey—announced Thursday they have settled a…
Using a credit card is easy — you use the card to buy things and then pay the credit card bill. A credit card can sometimes…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued an interpretive rule clarifying that the prohibition against sex discrimination under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Regulation B includes…
Chris Hendry is the first to admit that he had a nontraditional path to credit union leadership. But he’s just as quick to add that even…
Anyone who likes to shop at major retailers has probably at some point been asked to open a store credit card. The sales pitch for these…
The latest rounds of stimulus checks are being sent and deposited into Americans bank accounts, and the Attorney General is taking steps to make sure they…
Minnesota would stop collecting medical debt for private hospitals under proposals at the Capitol this session. The state has used its revenue recapture program to intercept…
A federal judge dismissed the credit repair industry’s challenge against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Federal Trade for enforcing limits on how firms are paid…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently vacated a trial court’s summary judgment in favor of a debt collector and ordered dismissal for…
The staff of the Federal Trade Commission has provided the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with an annual summary of the FTC’s activities in the debt collection…
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