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 ...

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

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 ...

Understanding exactly what is the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) can help you fix these headaches -- and protect your credit score along the way.

Wells Fargo upgraded Bank OZK (OZK) to Equal Weight from Underweight with a price target of $48, up from $40. The firm says its credit-event driven thesis is “becoming harder to defend,” as ...

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.

What the Equal Credit Opportunity Act did was allow women to get credit cards or a mortgage without a co-signer. This was a huge turning point for women and financial independence.

Until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) was signed into law 50 years ago today, banks required women to have a male cosigner—typically a husband or father—on applications for credit ...

It kicked off today, to mark the anniversary of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. How easy it is to forget, Babcock says, that not only did married women have to have their husbands' names on ...

He helped pass what became the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, by tacking it on to another piece of legislation. Card talked about this in an oral history. She said the legal language was simple.