CHICAGO, Dec. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TransUnion (TRU) today released its 2026 Consumer Credit Forecast, projecting credit card balances to grow 2.3% year over year (YoY)—the smallest annual ...

Midway through the first quarter of 2026, American households are carrying record-breaking credit card debt. Once a quick and easy fix for simple expenses, it has had to turn into a financial lifeline ...

CHICAGO, Dec. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Following four years of increases in credit card balances and delinquencies, a new TransUnion (TRU) consumer credit forecast projects a slowdown in growth ...

The average credit card balance is now $6,360, an all-time high, a new report by TransUnion found. Total credit card debt also reached a record $1.13 trillion in the latest quarter, the Federal ...

Americans entered 2024 on a high note. Inflation cooled down, January saw the highest consumer sentiment ranking since 2021 as citizens felt more optimistic about their incomes, and a year of robust ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Transunion lied to you. That’s the word from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB says in tens of thousands of cases, consumers locked or froze their accounts, but ...

Credit card debt in the U.S. surged 13% over the past year to a record $1.05 trillion; and in the past quarter, American consumers opened some 20.1 million new credit cards, according to TransUnion’s ...

The title of a project TransUnion released on Thursday at its 2024 Financial Services Summit (attended by nearly 300 global financial services executives) might have given some frightening flashbacks ...

Credit card interest rates remain near historic highs, averaging roughly 22% to 24%, according to industry data. At the same ...

TransUnion is trying to help the financial services industry clean up the proliferation of credit washing that’s impacting auto finance and beyond. To combat credit washing — the practice of removing ...