Congress should not have created the CFPB. Multiple federal agencies already existed to enforce consumer protection laws. The ...

By 2030, women in the U.S. will control nearly five times more wealth than they did a decade ago. It’s creating big ...

Though the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) of 1974 offers some federal protection for financial credit scoring, no comparable safeguards exist for behavioral scoring or digital blacklists.

According to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, lenders must disclose why they denied your application or inform you of your right to seek out such reasons.

It was about the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, a new law that prohibited credit card companies from discriminating based on sex or marital status. The legislation came over two decades after the ...

Section 1071 of the Dodd Frank Act commissioned the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to enforce existing fair lending laws and identify business development needs across the United States.

A new executive order from the White House targets the Equal Credit Opportunity Act which was written to prevent sex-based credit discrimination.

Recommended: Guide to High-Yield Savings Accounts The 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act It wasn’t until 1974, and the passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), that women were finally able ...

This year marks the 51st anniversary of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, which protected women's right to access to credit. Before the law, women needed their husbands, fathers or ...

The wording of the memo implies Pulte is making a safety and soundness argument as to why the GSEs should not be purchasing loans which come from SPCPs, which enable creditors to consider factors such ...

That is equal to a maximum credit amount of $2,500. What’s happening to the American Opportunity Tax Credit?

Regulation B of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) describes lending acts and practices that are specifically prohibited, permitted, or required for fair lending practices.