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Direct Lending Fund Suspends Withdrawals After Big Loan Goes Bad
Direct Lending Investments, which had $758 million in assets in November, said it suspended withdrawals and redemptions from its funds after a borrower ...
Updated: 02/15/2019 04:10P
Watchdog blasts Education Department for sloppy oversight of loan-servicing contractors
The Education Department's Federal Student Aid office has failed to keep watch over the contractors servicing its $1.4 trillion portfolio of student loans, a lapse ...
Updated: 02/14/2019 01:53P
Loan Options to Help Pay Your Medical Bills
When medical bills pile up, personal loans or credit lines, home equity loans and 401(k) loans offer alternatives to running up credit card balances.
Updated: 02/14/2019 09:25A
Car loan delinquencies: Record 7 million Americans behind on car loan payments
Chicago — A new report on household debt finds a record 7 million Americans are at least 90 days behind on their car loan payments. Alana Frierson painfully ...
Updated: 02/13/2019 06:38P
Senator: Let's Take Student Loan Payments From Your Paycheck
This U.S. Senator wants to deduct student loan payments from your paycheck.
Updated: 02/13/2019 08:32A
NY Fed: Auto loan delinquencies at highest point since 2010
DETROIT – Borrowers are behind in their auto loan payments in numbers not seen since delinquencies peaked at the end of 2010, according to the Federal ...
Updated: 02/12/2019 05:57P
This start-up is bringing fast home equity loans to your smartphone bank app
Blend's *service* is the latest example of a tech start-up working with banks, rather than competing against them, to bring easier-to-use digital services to the ...
Updated: 02/12/2019 06:56A
Is this the way to curb student loan defaults?
Advocacy groups are debating the merits of automatic payroll deduction for student loan repayment as the Republican chair of the Senate education committee ...
Updated: 02/11/2019 04:58P
Joel Robideaux defends aide, calls article on federal loan 'misleading'
Lafayette Mayor-President Joel Robideaux on Sunday evening defended his aide, Marcus Bruno, after The Advocate reported that Bruno took a private business ...
Updated: 02/11/2019 12:46P
Commentary: Students beware: Income-based loan repayment can cost you
What goes up must come down. Except your age and college tuition. America's colleges welcomed nearly 20 million people to campus last fall. College ...
Updated: 02/10/2019 12:16P