By Credit and Collection News Staff More than one in seven Irish residential electricity customers were behind on their bills through July, highlighting a worsening affordability challenge that could deepen as suppliers impose new price increases ahead of winter. The ...

On August 20, the District of Columbia’s Medical Debt Mitigation Amendment Act of 2026 became effective after being enacted without Mayor Muriel Bowser’s signature. The law establishes new requirements governing medical debt collection, credit reporting, financial assistance, payment plans, and ...

By John L. Culhane, Jr. & Alan S. Kaplinsky on September 8, 2026 POSTED IN EARNED WAGE ACCESS, REGULATION Z, STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL, STATE REGULATION Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser and Uniform Consumer Credit Code Administrator Martha Fulford have sued ...

By Robert C. Azarow Brendan M. Clegg Christopher DeCresce David F. Freeman, Jr. Amber A. Hay Anthony Raglani Kevin M. Toomey Richard M. Alexander Christopher L. Allen Erik Walsh On August 27, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the ...

By Credit and Collection News Staff TransUnion is introducing a next-generation consumer credit score in the United Kingdom that expands the familiar 0-to-710 scale to 0-to-999 and adds trended credit-behavior data to the calculation. The rollout, set to begin in ...

WASHINGTON — House Republicans and financial-services industry leaders are advancing a broad proposal to reshape the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, arguing that clearer statutory limits, more transparent rulemaking and less reliance on enforcement actions would produce a more durable consumer-protection ...

By Credit and Collection News Staff Ant International is teaming with Visa and Mastercard to develop common standards for payments initiated by artificial-intelligence agents, a move aimed at building stronger identity, authorization and risk controls as AI systems begin making ...

The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection has launched a new process intended to give businesses, trade groups and other stakeholders a formal avenue to flag unclear, conflicting or otherwise significant issues in FTC rules. For the credit and ...

FCC draft would replace the “revoke-all” approach with category-specific consent revocation and permit clearly disclosed exclusive opt-out channels. The Federal Communications Commission has circulated a draft order that would significantly reshape its Telephone Consumer Protection Act consent-revocation framework, advancing changes ...