Debt collection

The CFPB's announcement Monday that it's accepting complaints about marketplace lenders is a sure of a move toward regulating the burgeoning industry. It comes as marketplace lenders also grapple with an uptick in delinquent loans and a decline in returns for loan buyers.

The uninsured rate in the U.S. has reached a record low from 2010, when the Affordable Care Act took effect, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Outstanding consumer credit, a measure of non-real estate debt, rose by a seasonally adjusted $10.5 billion in January from a month earlier, the Federal Reserve reports.

A Buffalo, N.Y.-based debt collector allegedly misled and coerced thousands of people into paying debts they possibly didn’t owe, according to a 41-count grand jury indictment.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau complaint portal showed the number of medical debt collection complaints, through early February, began to dip after August 2015.

Democratic lawmakers want the Department of Education to retract findings from a review of loan servicers that its inspector general called "unsupported and inaccurate."

A significant gap remains between the credit scores of women-owned companies and those owned by men, according to a Biz2Credit.com survey.

Total U.S. bankruptcy filings fell 1% to 64,662 in February compared to 65,064 in February 2015, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute, based on data provided by Epiq Systems.

Oversight of the four largest mortgage servicers' compliance with the national mortgage settlement is officially over, the watchdog supervising the process said Thursday.

Debt-buying giant Encore Capital Group has announced it expanded its consumer Bill of Rights to identify customers on active military duty, thus halting all collections on their accounts.