<div id="subtitle">Loophole in FICO Enrages Lenders</div><div><p>The all-important three-digit number known asyour credit score has become the central pivot on which the financial industry moves. </p><p>Borrowers are repeatedly told to demonstrate good financial behavior not just for its own sake, but ...

<div id="subtitle">Measure leaves homeowners worse off, they charge</div><div><p>A bill designed to address abuses in the lending market would leave consumers worse off than if Congress did nothing at all, a group of national and local consumer and poverty law organizations told lawmakers yesterday.</p&gt ...