Many of the most senior officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission remained unaware of a 2016 hack of the agency’s computer system for months after it occurred, raising questions about how the breach was initially handled, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The SEC’s new chairman, Jay Clayton, uncovered the...

Credit card lenders are seeing delinquencies creep up again after a brief respite in the spring, the Wall Street Journal reported. Capital One Financial, Synchrony Financial and Alliance Data Systems have all seen delinquencies rise as a percentage of total loans over the past several months, after they declined slightly earlier this...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans in debt from the worst batch of student loans Wall Street ever bundled could see their balances cut under a tentative agreement the feds have struck with a little-known firm that effectively owns more than $8 billion in securitized student debt, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The tentative deal,...