The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is intensifying its efforts to inform individuals on certain benefits that they must transition to Universal Credit ... months to act without delay ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Having fair credit can put you in a tough position. It doesn’t quite offer the level of confidence most credit card issuers want ...

Credit reporting agencies are the companies that compile information from creditors to create your credit reports. Experian, Equifax and TransUnion are the three main credit reporting agencies, but ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has taken enforcement action against American Honda Finance Corporation for inaccurately reporting credit information that impacted the records of ...

The FICO® Score, used by 90% of top US lenders, is the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the US ... including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2024 ...

Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), credit reporting agencies are required to investigate the accuracy of disputed information and maintain accurate consumer reports. The CFPB said Equifax ...

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It aggregates data about most adult consumers and sells that data to its customers in the form of consumer ... disputes each month. The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires consumer reporting ...

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which alleged Equifax violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Equifax settled the allegations to "[turn] the page on the CFPB's long-running investigation," a company spokesperson wrote in an e-mail.

Equifax (NYSE:EFX) has been fined $15M by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for conducting inadequate investigations of disputes by the consumer reporting agency’s customers ...

The bureau said that Equifax — which processes 765,000 disputes per month — violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act which mandates that credit reporting agencies investigate disputed information and ...