Consumer lending

Consumers increasingly fell behind on their payments in several loan categories in the third quarter as economic growth cooled.

Officials in Montezuma County, Col. hope a Web-based collection management system will help them collect more than $311,000 in debt owed by current and former inmates.

A large Texas-based debt collection law firm will pay $3.4 million to settle accusations it illegally practiced law in California without having any lawyers in the state.

Ford Motor Credit is rolling out a pilot program that allows small groups of people to lease a vehicle together.

It took seven years, but the U.S. credit-card business has finally bounced back from its post-crisis hangover.

Unpaid utility bills owed by 680,000 residential electric and gas customers in Pennsylvania totaled $315 million in 2014, according to the state Public Utility Commission (PUC).

City officials in Longview, Texas are planning to review placing restrictions on “credit access” businesses such as title and payday loan outlets. City council officials will discuss the plan on Thursday.

Consumers increasingly fell behind on their payments in several loan categories in the third quarter as economic growth cooled.

A municipal tax collection agency in Ohio has confirmed it lost personal data for an estimated 50,000 people who filed tax forms with the agency.

Associated Banc-Corp in Green Bay, Wis., will increase its fourth-quarter allowance for loan losses by $13 million to compensate for potential late payments or defaults on loans in its energy portfolio.