When you think about your finances, privacy laws might not be the first thing on your mind. But the rules that govern who can access and share your financial data have a direct impact on your money ...

Employers can’t see your credit score itself, but in many cases, they can see other aspects of your credit history. Here’s how that affects your chances of getting a job.

The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) is a pivotal U.S. federal law enacted to ensure transparency in the mortgage lending ...

What is the state of the law regarding reporting medical debt on credit reports by health providers or their collection agents? Chaos.

Onboarding is the crucial last step of a compliant hiring process. Use this phase to reinforce your company’s values as the ...

The bipartisan Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act will put an end to “trigger leads” sold by credit reporting companies to ...

This practice is currently legal under the Fair Credit Reporting Act or FCRA. What exactly is provided to those uninvited lenders?

Major BNPL firms won't report customer data to credit bureaus until they see evidence that responsible payment behavior helps rather than hurts credit scores.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is considering whether to dramatically slash the number of nonbank companies it supervises in the auto finance, international money transfer, debt collection, ...

To mitigate the impact on farmers, the Act provides for compensatory mechanisms, including monetary compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement benefits, and in some cases, land-for-land ...

A coal company that shed 90 workers at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic has lost a High Court bid to head off unfair dismissal claims.