TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) released its 2026 credit originations outlook, projecting steady but tempered expansion across major lending categories. The forecast, issued alongside the Q4 2025 Credit Industry Insights Report (CIIR), highlights mortgages and unsecured personal loans as the main engines of growth amid a broader market that continues to stabilize after years of volatility.Mortgage originations—both for home purchases and refinances—are expected to extend recent gains from historically low levels.Pur ...

Private credit has grown into a $2 trillion market, but as retail investors demand more liquidity, the structure is getting stress-tested. Marc Pinto, the Global Head of Private Credit at Moodys joined Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about the scrutiny surrounding liquidity risks in private credit. ...

American Express Company (AXP), headquartered in New York, operates as an integrated payments company. With a market cap of $220 billion, the company’s principal products and services are charge and credit payment card products and travel-related services offered to consumers and businesses around the world. Companies worth $200 billion or more are generally described as “mega-cap stocks,” and AXP definitely fits that description, with its market cap exceeding this threshold, reflecting its substantial s ...

American Express Co., Deere & Co. and Johnson & Johnson have dropped diversity criteria for selecting new board directors, according to a conservative shareholder activist group.Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is considering a similar change, Bloomberg confirmed earlier this week. The moves are the latest ways that pressure from conservatives is changing corporate management and governance. American Express signed an agreement in October with the nonprofit National Legal and Policy Center, an activist shareholder ...

Mastercard Incorporated (MA), headquartered in Purchase, New York, provides transaction processing and other payment-related products and services. Valued at $442.4 billion by market cap, the company offers payment processing services for credit and debit cards, electronic cash, automated teller machines, and travelers checks. Companies worth $200 billion or more are generally described as “mega-cap stocks,” and MA definitely fits that description, with its market cap exceeding this threshold, reflecting ...

U.S. stock futures are showing signs of stabilization on Tuesday morning, February 24th, 2026, as investors attempt to recover from a bruising session that saw major indexes tumble. Premarket activity indicates a modest rebound, with futures for the S&P 500 (SPY) rising 0.34% and Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) futures gaining 0.49%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA) futures are also up approximately 127 points, or 0.2%, as market participants engage in bargain hunting following Monday’s sharp sell-off.The previous s ...

Building credit from scratch can feel like a Catch-22: You need a credit card or loan to start building up your credit scores, but you need good credit scores to get approved for credit cards and loans. So where do you start? As a financial educator and former NFCC-certified credit counselor, I've helped thousands of people answer this question. Believe it or not, there are simple steps that anyone can follow to build credit from scratch. Of course, you probably won’t achieve good credit overnight, but ...

TomCo Energy PLC (AIM:TOM, OTC:TMCGF) shares dropped 35% on Monday, falling to 0.035p, impacted by expected new equity dilution, after it announced a renewed partnership with Valkor that leaves the pair jointly controlling Greenfield Energy on a 50:50 basis, as the AIM-listed group looks to progress oil-sands opportunities in Utah’s Uinta Basin.Novo Nordisk (NYSE:NVO) attempt to reclaim the initiative in the obesity drug race has backfired, after its experimental next-generation treatment failed to prove it ...

“Shouldn’t the credit-card company have sent nonpayment notices to me?” (Photo subject is a model.) - Getty Images/iStockphoto Dear Quentin, I received a credit warning about a three-month overdue payment on a credit card held by my wife, with me listed as an authorized user. All correspondence regarding the account was sent to my wife’s email, so the credit warning was the first time I became aware of her nonpayment. The amount owed (including interest) was under $55, so that part is not the issue. My ...

Visa’s planned takeover of payment processor Prosa was turned down by Mexico’s National Antitrust Commission in the first show of strength by the country’s new competition watchdog. https://t.co/6ce6SQUyyZ ...