On May 3, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit entered an order denying the CFPB’s (CFPB) petition for a panel rehearing and effectively setting the stage for a long-awaited ruling on a preliminary injunction in the ongoing lawsuit challenging the CFPB credit card late fee rule.
The phone rings. Your caller ID says it’s the Social Security Administration. You hesitate. You’re not expecting a call from them, and you’ve heard about impersonation scams. But something inside you makes you pick up. And everything you’re about to hear is designed to scare you into doing whatever the caller says.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (Reuters) - Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan on Friday said it's not clear if monetary policy is tight enough to bring inflation down to the U.S. central bank's 2% goal, and it is too soon to be cutting interest rates.
The December installment of PYMNTS Intelligence’s “New Reality Check: The Paycheck-to-Paycheck Report” series, “The Credit Card Use Deep Dive Edition,” drew from a survey of more than 3,200 U.S. consumers to examine their financial lifestyles and explore how they use credit cards to manage their cash flows to get by.
On April 4, 2024, the Oregon Governor signed Senate Bill 1595—the Family Financial Protection Act (SB 1595)—into law. SB 1595 increases the amounts exempt from execution by creditors, imposes new account review procedures for banks in responding to garnishments, and increases protections for debtors from unlawful debt collection practices.