July 20, 2018
July 20, 2018
Personal loans are the now the fastest growing consumer debt category, according to new data from credit bureau TransUnion. Outstanding personal loan balances now stand at […]
July 19, 2018
July 19, 2018
According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, mortgage applications have shown a recent decrease, but Americans are still taking out loans, lots and lots of loans. In […]
July 18, 2018
July 18, 2018
The federal government recently announced that it conducted a massive sweep and arrested dozens of people who allegedly participated in schemes designed to intercept and hijack […]
July 17, 2018
July 17, 2018
Foreclosures in the first half of 2018 are far below their peak of 1.6 million in 2010, but 40% of local markets showed an uptick in […]
July 13, 2018
July 13, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether thousands of borrowers can invoke a federal debt-collection law when they are facing foreclosure. The justices said they will […]
July 11, 2018
July 11, 2018
Small business loan approval rates for big banks (25.9%) continued the upswing with yet another new high in May 2018, according to the Biz2Credit Small Business […]
July 10, 2018
July 10, 2018
Preliminary second-quarter data from the Federal Reserve indicate the year-over-year growth rate of business loans rose to 5.5% in late June from less than 1% near […]
July 9, 2018
July 9, 2018
As house values continued growing, homeowners with mortgages, accounting for 63% of all properties, saw their equity increase 13.3% year-over-year in the first quarter, a gain […]
July 6, 2018
July 6, 2018
The homeownership rate for adults age 25 to 34 was 37.5% in 2016, about three percentage points lower than the historical average for this demographic and […]