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Though some lenders are still offering private student loans, "The list is shrinking," says Kevin Walker, chief executive of SimpleTuition, a website that allows borrowers to compare loan rates.

Last year, he says, SimpleTuition featured 77 lenders on its website; now, it has only 16.

Fannie and Freddie increased the fees they charge lenders for many loans, effectively bumping up interest rates for many borrowers who have marginal credit.

Eleven microfinance groups that together serve nearly twenty-six million people have agreed to publicly report their annual interest rates, a move that many hope will empower the world's poorest borrowers....

Whatever good for Main Street comes out of modifying the mortgages of borrowers who are in default on their loans, the effort looks like something that would please Wall Street.

To protect borrowers from the kind of subprime lending practices that led to the mortgage crisis, the Fed is planning new regulations.

Host Kai Ryssdal shares Chairman Ben Bernanke's remarks.

New York’s borrowers could notice a different tone in their discussions with mortgage brokers in coming months.

A raft of changes that will take effect Tuesday that will make student loans less onerous for many borrowers.

Just as Bank of America was winning approval to take ownership of Countrywide, Illinois and California filed lawsuits against the mortgage lender for allowing borrowers to take on loans beyond their means.

Jeff Tyler reports.

The Justice Department has announced indictments of hundreds of industry insiders they say defrauded borrowers.

John Dimsdale has more.

When the Senate Banking Committee passed a housing bill intended to limit foreclosures, panel Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., said he expected the measure could help 500,000 borrowers stay in their homes.