Three of the country's largest credit reporting agencies are removing nearly 70% of medical debt from consumer credit reports, the companies announced in a joint statement Friday. Equifax, Experian ...

Errors on your credit report can hurt your finances, making regular reviews essential to catch mistakes and dispute them.

The gov't agency responsible for policing credit reporting agencies is being defunded. How can you make sure your credit ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action against Equifax, the nationwide consumer reporting agency, for its failure to conduct “proper investigations” of consumer disputes. The CFPB ...

For the “failure to conduct proper investigations of consumer disputes,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) last Friday announced enforcement actions taken against Equifax, requiring the ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. The CFPB found Equifax ignored consumer documents and evidence submitted ...

A credit reporting agency is a company that compiles information about your borrowing history into a credit report. Also called credit bureaus, credit reporting agencies primarily sell reports to ...

ATLANTA, Jan. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Equifax ® (NYSE: EFX) today announced the launch of Credit Abuse Risk, a new predictive model that uses FCRA-regulated data and is designed to help protect ...

Equifax could get away with paying a mere $1 per person after failing to protect almost half of America’s credit data. While the 118-year-old credit-reporting firm has been hit with more than 100 ...