Learn about the role of a co-borrower in loan agreements, how they differ from co-signers, and their impact on obtaining a ...

Student loan borrowers notched two major court victories this week, paving the way for automatic discharges of federal student loans.

According to the loan discharge program, borrowers may be eligible to have their loans canceled if their school engaged in misconduct. Borrowers may qualify if their school engaged in practices such ...

About 160,000 borrowers will soon be notified that they are eligible for automatic student debt discharge through the borrower defense program.

Homeowners are currently sitting on an unprecedented amount of equity, resulting in higher demand for home equity loans and lines of credit. And with interest rates expected to decline, refinancing ...

A co-borrower has a legal claim over loan funds and the purchased asset, while a cosigner does not have any legal claims to the money or property. When you’re going through the mortgage process, ...

Most student loan borrowers can get the assistance they need for free from servicers or at studentaid.gov. This page includes information about these cards, currently unavailable on NerdWallet. The ...

Student loan debt is an important issue for many people, and relief has been hard to come by. There is a program that can assist students who may have been misled by their school. It’s called Borrower ...

Kiah Treece is a former attorney, small business owner and personal finance coach with extensive experience in real estate and financing. Her focus is on demystifying debt to help consumers and ...

As of February 2025, nearly 40,000 class action members have pending borrower defense applications. Borrower defense claims through the U.S. Department of Education have resulted in billions of ...

Vertyx introduced a Borrower Relationship Management feature to help mortgage servicers and investors identify retention opportunities and monitor portfolio performance using AI analytics. AI Summary ...

New household loans per borrower in the fourth quarter of 2025 fell to the lowest level in about two years amid the government's tightened regulations to cool the overheated housing market, the ...