Credit

The Toronto-based bank set aside CA$1.5 billion in its fiscal fourth quarter to cover potentially bad loans. Executives say higher-than-normal impaired losses could persist next year.

Under the Biden administration, a trio of regulatory agencies have teamed up to limit consumers' access to credit. The incoming administration should force them to stand down.

Artificial intelligence systems built to assess creditworthiness are trained on data that implicitly accepts past discriminatory lending decisions as legitimate signals about borrowers today.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra said the FICO credit-scoring model has drawbacks in price, predictiveness and market competition, and stakeholders should develop a more open-sourced model that uses artificial intelligence.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned companies about modern-day surveillance of workers and requirements to follow the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

The Wilmington, North Carolina, company reported a breakout quarter for loan production, but profits fell as an increase in nonperforming loans led to higher provisioning.

Despite strong growth and solid profits, the Miami-based lender, formerly a business development company, still hasn't convinced the market it fits in as a bank.

An American Bankers Association panel of forecasters predicted slower growth, but it said the U.S. economy would likely avoid a recession, sparing lenders deep credit quality woes.

A new academic paper dives into the key factors that have caused bank failures over the past 160 years.

Prophecies about a wave of bank failures caused by sickly CRE loans haven't yet come true. But there are still plenty of caution signs in a saga that will take years to play out.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Royal Bank of Canada both set aside much less money than expected last quarter to cover loan losses.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has moved to ban medical debt from appearing on credit reports, but its analysis relies on a sliver of consumer data from more than a decade ago.

Pandemic era changes to credit reporting have dangerously distorted credit scores for mortgage borrowers. The market is in worse shape than we realize, writes a former Federal Housing Finance Agency director.

Democrats Ritchie Torres and Gregory Meeks called on the New York Home Loan bank to follow the lead of its peers and use alternative credit scoring models for collateral to improve consumers' access to homeownership.

The Bank of Japan's interest rate hike and plan for quantitative tightening have international markets scrambling to adjust to a new reality in which carry trade credit is tighter and a U.S. downturn is somewhat more likely.

The resurgence of the syndicated loan market signals a pendulum swing back to greater reliance by debt issuers on traditional bank financing.

Monday's market decline has sparked concerns of an economic downturn, calling attention to installment lenders that market to distressed consumers.

Lenders and financial institutions should allow consumers to report nontraditional financial activities in an effort to adopt and validate newer, more inclusive credit scoring models.

The Cleveland-based regional bank continues to benefit from strength in investment banking, though concerns about stalled loan growth emerged as CEO Chris Gorman described demand as tepid.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's proposal to eliminate medical debts from credit reports is under attack from debt collectors, which claim the rule will drive up litigation costs and drive doctors out of business.