Subprime lending

Looming defaults and the potential for heavier regulatory scrutiny have prompted banks to pull back from the sector. Is that a good thing?

The San Francisco company has faced financing challenges as its customers, largely lower-income Latinos, have struggled to keep up with monthly payments.

The company, which provides credit cards to millennials, is expanding its target audience beyond thin-file consumers and those without credit histories. It will now also target those with blemished, nonprime credit histories.

Millennial credit card provider Petal is expanding its target audience beyond thin-file consumers and those without credit histories. It will now also target those with blemished, non-prime credit histories.

A borrower advocacy group is asking federal banking regulators to investigate PayPal and Synchrony Financial, which partner on a product that is used to offer high-cost education financing.

Covered Care is promising to offer affordable loans to borrowers with credit scores below 700.

A subprime-related settlement between the government and Deutsche Bank provided meaningful benefits to some U.S. consumers in need, according to a new report. But the author acknowledged that those gains could prove illusory for some consumers given the coronavirus crisis.

The companies said the "meaningful impacts" of the coronavirus pandemic led them to terminate the $2.7 billion deal.

The lender will pay $65 million in restitution and forgive nearly $500 million in auto debt to settle charges that it steered subprime borrowers into risky loans.

Credit Acceptance Corp., the lender to car buyers with subprime credit scores, warned it's seeing a sharp drop-off in payments as people shift their financial priorities to get through the coronavirus pandemic.