U.S. consumers average about $6,519 in credit card debt, with the highest balances among those with prime credit scores. The overall amount of credit card debt in the U.S. has increased $24 billion in ...

Concerns about defaults, particularly among software companies, have spooked investors in the private credit firms that lend to them. By Maureen Farrell Private credit, an industry focused on lending ...

I recently wrote about how Treasuries have come to represent a larger share of the US bond market, prompted by heavy US government debt issuance. Only as an aside did I mention that corporate debt has ...

Sandbox escape vulnerability in vm2, used by nearly 900 NPM packages, allows attackers to bypass security protections and execute arbitrary code. A critical vulnerability has been patched in vm2, a ...

Private credit has surged in popularity since post-financial crisis regulations discouraged banks from serving riskier borrowers. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned after a pair of private ...

The Goddard Space Flight Center Library in Greenbelt, Md. reportedly closed on Friday, Jan. 2 Alamy The Trump administration has reportedly closed down NASA’s largest research library The Goddard ...

Risk concerns and falling interest rates are top of mind for many nonbank lenders as the private-credit industry looks to the year ahead. In 2025, credit-fund managers had to contend with high-profile ...

Artem Lalaiants is the Founder and CEO of RiskSeal with 10+ years in fintech and deep expertise in alternative credit risk scoring. In digital lending, the first risk decision isn’t about ...

A measure of Oracle Corp.’s credit risk climbed on Wednesday after the database company posted a jump in spending on data centers and other equipment, raising fresh doubts about how quickly it can ...

Headteacher Tom Plim said children would lose out if the library service closed [BBC] A headteacher has described a county-wide school library service that is at risk of closing as a "lifeline" for ...

A headteacher has described a county-wide school library service that is at risk of closing as a "lifeline" for children in rural towns and villages. Tom Plim from Highley Primary School in Shropshire ...

Bottom line: A key measure of credit risk linked to Oracle has climbed to its highest level in three years, and Wall Street analysts warn that pressure is likely to intensify next year unless the ...