High interest rates have had a significant impact on the mortgage market and their effect is likely to continue as rates continue to increase, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said in a report.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Nov. 16, 2023) – The National Credit Union Administration Board held its tenth open meeting of 2023 and approved a final rule that amends the charitable donation accounts section of the NCUA’s incidental powers regulation. In addition, the NCUA’s Chief Financial Officer briefed the Board on the performance of the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund for the third quarter of 2023.
The Federal Trade Commission is announcing the Voice Cloning Challenge to help promote the development of ideas to protect consumers from the misuse of artificial intelligence-enabled voice cloning for fraud and other harms.
The Federal Trade Commission has provided the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) with its annual summary of activitiesto protect consumers in the debt collection arena.
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department, in close coordination with the Department of Education, announced today a successful first year of the new process for handling cases in which individuals seek to discharge their federal student loans in bankruptcy. One year after Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta announced the process in November 2022, data and information show that the process is achieving its goals of ensuring consistency and equity in the evaluation of student loan discharge requests, and that the process has translated into increasing numbers of eligible federal student loan borrowers seeking and obtaining debt relief under the Bankruptcy Code.