House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters is the second top Democratic lawmaker to dress down the megabank in recent weeks. Senate Banking Chair Sherrod Brown wrote a similar letter to Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf in late May.

In a new interpretative rule filed Tuesday, the agency gave states a green light to expand on federal laws that protect consumers from unfair treatment by credit reporting agencies.

The retail giant ignored fraudsters’ use of its money transfers in consumer scams that cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Walmart called the agency’s lawsuit “factually flawed and legally baseless.”

The combination of the Cornerstone League and the Heartland Credit Union Association is the latest in a series of mergers changing the national makeup of the credit union industry.

Ashley D. Bell and Bernice A. King, respectively the CEO and advisory council chair of Ready Life, are teaming up to help folks with poor credit buy a home by using rent payment history for mortgage underwriting.

The move builds on the government-sponsored enterprise’s previous program that facilitated the collection of more rent payment records from tenants who work with its multifamily borrowers.