Customers charged illegal fees by two of the largest credit repair firms will soon see a refund check, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Thursday. The CFPB says it will distribute ...

The Credit Repair Organizations Act regulates companies that perform credit repair services. The law protects consumers by banning unfair or deceptive advertising and business practices. Credit repair ...

TransUnion, one of the three largest credit bureaus in the U.S., has agreed to a $23 million class action settlement to resolve claims it failed to remove disputed hard inquiries from consumers' ...

Exploring credit repair is one way to begin the process of fixing a poor credit score and could make it easier to access credit with better terms and conditions in the future. While there are ...

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Recently, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California temporarily halted the operations of a business “opportunity” and credit repair scam. The court granted the FTC’s ex parte ...

Subprime auto finance companies often tout that an ancillary benefit of providing financing to consumers with soft credit histories is it can be a path to resuscitating an individual’s credit profile ...