A business has put up an Internet site that offers to help consumers with poor credit scores by adding them as authorized users of consumers with good credit scores.

Calming the waters a bit in the nation's tight credit markets, Countrywide Financial Corporation, the leading mortgage lender and servicer in the U.S., announced yesterday that it received a $2 billion strategic equity investment from Bank of America. Last week Countrywide drew down on its full $11.5 billion line of...

Toll Brothers, the nation's largest builder of luxury homes announced that its third quarter earnings were down 84%. Year-to-date earnings are down $26.5 million the company said, attributing the losses to the downturn in the luxury home market and the credit/liquidity crunch, and sales are down 21% from a year...

NCUA today issued several orders of prohibition against former credit union employees, including one from Dover New Jersey Spanish American Federal Credit Union currently under a cease and desist order from the agency.