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The government profited and looked away as thousands of immigrant taxi drivers in New York were ravaged by exploitative loans.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- A metro organization is working to get veterans easier access to home loan programs. On Saturday, realtors helped veterans and active ...

High school grads on their way to college — as well as returning college students — just got a bit of a financial gift.

The U.S. collected $3.3 billion of delinquent student debt in the first half of this fiscal year. That's up from $2.9 billion in the full year before.

The advice to pursue your dreams at work may be nice, but the borrowed money still has to be repaid.

Beware of these financial scams. Protect your student loans.

Taking out a loan can help you in the short term, so be smart about how you pay it back so you don't have to worry about debt in the long term.

A $55 billion funding market is drying up and threatening a chain reaction. The next prime minister must fix it, and quickly.

(This May 16 story corrects 10th paragraph to clarify that 96% of cosigns are for undergraduate loans.) FILE PHOTO: Messages and artwork are pictured on the ...

Cheaper (but scarcer) credit cards and the end of payday loans.

Money and life lessons we learned from 'Game of Thrones'

State and local governments need to find the resources to help families make smarter financial decisions about college during children's high school years.

The government is denying federal housing loans to young immigrants with DACA status, even after Ben Carson said it wasn't happening.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Kathy Kraninger says the department is getting in the way of efforts to police the student loan industry.

The recent escalation of U.S.-China trade tensions is threatening to cut short a nascent recovery in the market for collateralized loan obligations.

This new employee benefit lets workers trade in their paid time off.

The Community Loan Center, an employer-based, small-dollar loan program pioneered in Brownsville in 2011 and now franchised around the United States, ...

Why is student loan debt treated differently than all other consumer debt?

By looking at minimalism as a lifestyle instead of a sacrifice, Jennifer Chan paid off $50000 in loans in a few short years.

The head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the Education Department is impeding access to information that regulators need to oversee the ...

Will you be able to discharge your student loans in bankruptcy? Elizabeth Warren hopes so. Here's what you need to know. The Student Borrower Bankruptcy ...

As of May 16th, the Small Business Administration had lent more than $33.4 million to Nebraska homeowners and businesses recovering from the March floods.

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg has lots of student loan debt and received a $75,000 advance for his political memoir, according to financial ...

The company is facing multiple lawsuits from the CFPB and states attorneys general.

As the cost of college rises, more parents are cosigning private loans for their children's education. That move can leave them on the hook for the debt if their ...

Malaysia's government is turning to the wealth of the masses, instead of reticent banks, to help solve a $4.8 billion property overhang.

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Your rich Uncle Sam is calling in his chips. The U.S. government stepped up collections on delinquent student debt to $2.9 billion last year -- or an average of ...

To help advisers at its subsidiary firms stay current with the socioeconomic trends shaping the future of the financial advice industry, Ladenburg Thalmann ...

Income share agreements sound like a better deal than today's student loans, but what will they do to society?

Ramping up his latest push for the White House, Bernie Sanders is taking aim at high interest rates on credit cards and payday loans. The Vermont senator ...

Education groups pan White House cut to Pell surplus — House Veterans Affairs Committee tackles school closures.

STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — Randy Bender has uncovered a gem that is now on display for all to see: While visiting Sturgis Brown High School, the president of board ...

Interest-only loans are on the rise, which has some analysts spooked that the economy is already trending toward a recession. If only it were that easy to foretell ...

Here's the problem with student debt: It's only a problem for some people. Americans of all ages owe almost $1.5 trillion in student loans and so many Americans ...

For the first time in three years, the interest rates on Federal student loans will decrease anywhere from seven to ten percent depending on the loan type.

One counter-intuitive way to help someone who's fallen behind on bills is to give them another loan, according to a new TransUnion study.

An East Texas businessman admitted to using loan documents with forged signatures in order to get personal and commercial loans for a total of $145000 from ...

Consumer Reports say there may be relief ahead if you qualify for a student loan forgiveness program.

Sonia Chang-Díaz's amendment would move Massachusetts closer to reaching its goal of a truly equitable cannabis industry.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Kathy Kraninger may have been blasted for her bureau's poor oversight of predatory student loan ...

A bill that includes a provision to make it easier for companies to contribute to the retirement accounts of employees who are paying down student debt was ...

New Jersey's attorney general is stepping into the ring again with the Trump administration, this time trying to prevent a federal consumer-watchdog agency from ...

Auto title loans can carry an annual percentage rate up to 204 percent a year.

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (May 16, 2019) – The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced today that the Club has loaned goalkeeper Stefan Cleveland and defender Grant ...

Lawmakers could make it easier for student loan borrowers to cancel their debt in bankruptcy. The bill, which is supported by 14 Democrats, one Republican and ...

When you think of your golden years, you think of rest, relaxation, travel and the good life. The last thing on your mind: student loans. Yet, for millions of ...

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, on Monday introduced a bill aimed at making it easier for those with student loan ...

Just about every consumer has a specific amount of credit card debt. While a small amount of credit card debt is most likely not going to become a problem, with ...

Zimbabwe's authoritarian government is working with World Bank staff and outside powers to get the creditors to clear billions in arrears and restart loans.

Student loans can weigh on recent graduates-- and beyond. Some senior citizens are still saddled with student loan debt. Here's how debt can uniquely affect ...

The Republic of Congo and commodities-trading house Trafigura Group agreed to reorganize several hundred millions of dollars in oil-for-cash loans that the ...

AUGUSTA — Lawmakers are once again exploring avenues to use student loan forgiveness and zero-interest loan programs as a way to simultaneously ...

Total U.S. household debt is now $993 billion higher than the peak of $12.68 trillion in the third quarter of 2008, according to a new report by the New York Fed.

As a result of the ITC stepdown, solar loans will increasingly start to look like regular consumer loans.

(Bloomberg) -- The auto loan has flourished among American consumers over the last two decades, with its prevalence among the U.S. population rising each of ...

Serious auto-loan delinquencies – 90 days or more past due – jumped to 4.69% of outstanding auto loans and leases in the first quarter of 2019, according to ...

Nearly 2,300 teachers have just had a mountain of student loan debt lifted off their backs, according to previously unreleased figures from the U.S. Department of ...

Taylor Smith graduated college with 11 student loans and $53000 in debt.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation to make bankruptcy relief available for student loan borrowers. Sens. Elizabeth Warren ...

For small businesses, working capital loans can fund short-term needs and unplanned expenses that cash flow can't cover.

The truth is that millions of Americans would be worse off without access to small-dollar loans.

The student loan “grace period” is a six- to nine-month reprieve from having to pay back your loans that starts from the time you graduate or drop below half-time ...

Nobody likes writing a check every month. The joy of that new car quickly gives way to monthly misery — especially when the size of the check is sometimes ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks and Mercon Coffee Group separately announced sustainability-focused loan facilities on Monday, signaling the coffee sector's ...

A home equity line of credit, or HELOC, is a second mortgage that gives you access to cash based on the value of your home. You can draw from a home equity ...

(FOX 9) - The Minnesota Senate voted unanimously to pay Argosy University students directly for state grants and loans kept by Argosy when the school ...

Debbie Baker said her loan provider told her she was on track for forgiveness, but was rejected when she applied.

Tesla has rolled out a new benefit for its workers: employee loans, facilitated through the London-based financial tech start-up Salary Finance, and funded via its ...

News. British financial software firm Finastra has signed three global banks on its R3 Corda blockchain-based syndicated loans platform, the firm officially ...

The behaviour of some loan firms is deemed 'unacceptable' by the watchdog, the Financial Ombudsman *Service*.

Startups are stepping into a market long associated with payday lenders. One pitfall is that such loans might encourage some young renters to live beyond their ...

It's not wise to use retirement funds to pay down student loans taken out on behalf of your children. Consider refinancing the debt so that the graduate can take ...

While many borrowers welcomed a one-time loan clearance plan, it also raised long-simmering questions about the cost and quality of college.

Boomers like me who paid off all of our student loans need to give millennials a break.

Living outside of the country will not allow you to erase the debt you owe.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will announce her first major bill today, in partnership with Vermont Sen. and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. It's something ...

A federal grant program that was supposed to encourage teachers to work in low-income schools turned into a headache for many recipients when those grants ...

Americans owe more in student loans than they do on credit cards, but how does that debt impact the rest of their financial lives? If the day comes when you want ...

95% of student loan borrowers would get relief under Warren's proposal.

The State Revolving Fund loans help Iowa cities with drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects.

College graduates saddled with loans has become a major problem for the economy, and a political hot potato. So just how big is the problem, really?

Thousands of students across Central New York will be graduating this weekend and for many of them, the looming cloud of paying back student loans is ...

Refinancing a small business loan, compared with a mortgage, has a few more steps and may require as much documentation as your initial business loan.

Colleges should not play the role of subprime mortgage brokers sticking taxpayers with the bill.

It's graduation time and for many graduates that will mean it's time to start paying back those student loans. There are several student loan scams to watch out for ...

"Because of student loans we are literally driving tens of thousands of older Americans into poverty"

Adam Looney offers a more progressive plan for forgiving student loans that makes income-based repayment universal and provides relief to existing borrowers.

Researcher concludes that increase in Grad PLUS loans did not drive up the price of medical and business schools or increase debt burden of those who ...

Tim Kaine and Randi Weingarten write that the bipartisan Public *Service* Loan Forgiveness program offers us an opportunity to do right by public servants and ...

A group suing JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other Wall Street banks over a loan that went sour four years ago is alleging the underwriters engaged in securities ...

A 2019 high school graduate can expect to borrow $37400 in pursuit of a bachelor's degree, according to a data analysis by NerdWallet.

Tax refunds are a lifeline for many low-income people. For the increasing number of people who've fallen behind on their student loans, however, that relief ...

Jumbo loans are a big deal in the mortgage sector - very big. Here's the deal, and how to score a jumbo loan....FNMA.

Having a car is a necessity for the millions of Americans who don't have alternative transportation to get to work or school. When you have bad credit, that ...

Ann Arbor — Going into her junior year at the University of Michigan, Meg Wynne already has $20,000 in debt. "It's scary because you're not always thinking ...

More U.S. consumers are defaulting on their credit cards, but banks may be holding onto the riskiest loans instead of passing them off to investors, according to a ...

KENOSHA -- Five years after a Kenosha man started paying back his student loan, he owes more than when he started. Cameron Olson owns The Graphics Co.

Most banks and financial institutions are built for conventional businesses, not cooperatives, which means co-ops have a hard time accessing the money they ...

More than a decade after Congress set up a way to erase student debt for people who hold public-*service* jobs, the system is in disarray. Around 73000 people ...