Lifestyle and Budget

New free tool may help you deal with debt collectors

Consumers hounded by shady collection agencies can get some high-tech help from Debt Lookup, a free, online service I viewed today at Finovate Fall, the financial technology conference held each ...

Get free FICO scores for auto and student loans

Four more creditors–Hyundai, Kia, Pentagon Federal Credit Union, and Sallie Mae–have joined the FICO Open Access program, which gives borrowers free regular access to the credit score that their ...

A remote control for your credit card

If your smart phone is loaded with apps that sounded nifty when you loaded them but that you seldom actually use, here's a new one that might make you a repeat customer.

Support builds for new Glass-Steagall Act

The revival of a defunct, Depression-era law that split banks' commercial and investment-banking functions is getting support from many advocacy groups that contend the divide is needed again to ...