Consumer lending

Foreclosures filings fell in the first quarter to the lowest level in more than nine years and foreclosure activity dropped below pre-recession levels in more than one-third of major metropolitan areas.

B of A is normally thought of as a U.S. economic bellwether, but it has substantial operations overseas, and its international performance last quarter provided a painful reminder of that fact.

An Arkansas woman is alleging in a lawsuit that debt buyer PRA Group froze her bank account to try to collect $43,200 in interest on a $6,000 judgment that was less than two months old.

DBA International has elected Todd Lansky as president of the association's board of directors. He replaces Patricia Baxter, who has been a board member since 2013 before resigning this week.

Young college graduates, including those who are still paying off student loans, are more likely to buy a home than their peers who did not go to college, according to a report from Navient and Ipsos.

Rather than rush its proposal to regulate short-term lenders, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should carefully weigh the consequences of potentially driving lenders out of the market.

A lawsuit filed in New York alleges that Northern Leasing Systems, along with several affiliated companies and individuals, trapped small businesses into credit card processing equipment lease agreements and abused the court process by pursuing allegedly wrongful collection lawsuits.

The world knows JPMorgan's quarterly profits fell and that it flunked the living wills test. But underneath all that were solid first-quarter results in its core lending businesses that bode well for other banks at the start of earnings season.

Federal appeals court judges hearing a case challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s single-director leadership structure appear receptive to arguments that the setup violates the Constitution.

A GAO report released Monday indicates that the number of nonbank firms servicing mortgages in the U.S. is growing but the CFPB - the agency charged with protecting borrowers - does not have an accurate count of those companies.