The Federal Reserve raised its target federal funds rate by 0.5 percentage points at the end of its two-day meeting Wednesday in a continued effort to cool inflation.
As a result of a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit, the operators of “The Credit Game,” a credit repair scheme that cost consumers millions of dollars, face a lifetime banfrom the credit repair industry in proposed court orders filed today.
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council’s (FFIEC) Task Force on Consumer Compliance today adopted the revised examination procedures for the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and its implementing regulation, Regulation F. The revised interagency examination procedures incorporate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s 2020 and 2021 Fair Debt Collection Final Rules1 that went into effect on November 30, 2021.
Minneapolis CNN — Black Friday may have been back in fashion this year, but the strong turnout at the start of the holiday shopping season last month wasn’t enough to counter a broader consumer pullback in spending.
WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) reported that the performance of first-lien mortgages in the federal banking system improved during the third quarter of 2022. The OCC Mortgage Metrics Report, Third Quarter 2022 showed that 97.2 percent of mortgages included in the report were current and performing at the end of the quarter, compared to 95.6 percent a year earlier.
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