Credit and Collection News Visa, Mastercard and Fiserv are among the founding members of a new industry coalition seeking to establish common operating standards for payments initiated by autonomous artificial-intelligence agents. The Agentic Payments Alliance, launched by stablecoin-payment infrastructure company ...

By Credit and Collection News Staff ACA International has filed a court declaration in the Federal Trade Commission’s case against Credit Glory and a network of related credit-repair companies, seeking to distinguish legitimate accounts-receivable management businesses from entities the agency ...

Trade group backs House discussion draft’s push for congressional oversight, clearer legal standards and more predictable CFPB supervision. WASHINGTON, D.C. — ACA International is urging Congress to adopt significant governance and regulatory changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as ...

By using the secondary medical-debt market, Rhode Island has converted a $1 million state appropriation into more than $16.3 million in canceled medical balances for more than 9,000 residents. The outcome illustrates both the steep discount at which aged medical ...

An extraordinary mix of emergency support, durable household demand, a surprisingly adaptable labor market and carefully calibrated monetary policy kept the U.S. expansion alive after the pandemic shock—though the resilience has come with meaningful consumer-credit risks. The United States has ...

FICO's latest report highlights improving delinquency trends, strong consumer credit engagement and evolving borrowing patterns amid ongoing affordability challenges BOZEMAN, Mont., August 25, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FICO (NYSE:FICO), global analytics software leader, today released its Fall '26 edition of the FICO® Score ...

Australia is proposing a major reset of privacy law that would require organisations to show that their collection, use and disclosure of personal information is “fair and reasonable in the circumstances”—even when they have obtained consumer consent. For creditors, collection ...

Financial institutions can leverage the D&B Commercial Graph for AI-driven customer onboarding, lending, and underwriting workflows JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Dun & Bradstreet today announced AI capabilities built on Gemini Enterprise to power complex credit and risk ...

By Credit and Collection News Staff U.S. foreclosure activity edged higher in July, with filings rising 1 percent from June and 10 percent from the same month last year, according to ATTOM’s latest U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. A total of ...