Small businesses are increasingly paying “toll fees” to get money they have already earned, and a new bipartisan bill in Congress—the PACE Act—aims to attack that friction at the infrastructure level.tricityregionalchamber What’s happening to small business cash flow For many ...

The debt collection process doesn't simply stop when someone dies, but it doesn't continue exactly as it did before, either. Getty Images/iStockphoto When someone dies, financial questions tend to surface shortly thereafter, even if the grieving process has just started ...

U.S. foreclosure activity has climbed back to its highest level in years—approaching and in some measures surpassing pre‑pandemic norms—drawing a new wave of bargain hunters into the market for distressed properties. Foreclosure Activity Hits Multi‑Year High Real estate data provider ...

During recent Congressional Hearings Acting CFPB Director Russell Vought, testifying for the first time in that capacity, stated that the Trump Administration has succeeded in improving the structure and operation of the CFPB, but more work needs to be done ...

Britain’s biggest companies are getting quicker at paying their bills. New official statistics show the time large businesses take to pay their suppliers has fallen, and the proportion of invoices paid late dropped to 15 per cent in 2025, down ...

New York is moving to bring Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) firmly into its regulated credit framework, with proposed rules that would require licensing, impose credit underwriting standards, and layer on robust consumer-protection, data-use, and fee limitations. Legislative and Regulatory ...

Key insight: Use of Block's Cash App Borrow has expanded in the year since the company received FDIC approval to directly originate loans. What's at stake: Block is leaning on Cash App to build a financial services business in competition ...

The rise in Buy Now, Pay Later obligations is forcing consumer bankruptcy attorneys to change their workflows, a Bloomberg Law report notes. Consumer bankruptcy lawyers report that client files now routinely feature dozens of individual Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) ...

By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team on July 16, 2026 On July 7, a bipartisan coalition of 49 state attorneys general (AGs) sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging the adoption of stronger measures to combat ...