Victoria Finkle

A bipartisan bill that would permit regulators to grant federal charters to nonbank consumer lenders is being met with fierce resistance.

San Bernardino County is forging ahead with deliberations on a proposal to seize delinquent mortgages, despite its largest city’s decision Tuesday night to seek bankruptcy.

Discover Financial Services is finally getting its feet wet in the mortgage origination business, but the credit card lender isn't jumping into the deep end anytime soon.

Delinquency rates in the fourth quarter of 2011 fell across all loan categories the trade group monitors, including credit cards, auto and home loans, the American Bankers Association reported.

Wells Fargo & Co. on Friday reiterated its plans to slash costs over the next year -- but executives gave themselves new wiggle room to rethink those cuts later.

Fair Isaac's (FICO) new chief executive is starting in defense mode, as the credit-score giant looks to regain the reputation and business it has lost in the wake of the financial crisis.

Former Morgan Stanley chief executive John Mack has joined the board of Lending Club, an online lending platform.

We all wish we could have just stayed in bed some days, and Bank of America officials have had more than their share of those days in the past week.

Internet scams were the top consumer fraud complaint in 2011, according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, but mortgages also earned a mention.