SAN FRANCISCO (Private Equity Week) - With consumer loans increasingly difficult to obtain, Americans are putting more effort into attracting lenders by monitoring and improving their credit scores.

Hawaii consumers have decreased their credit card debt by 13 percent since the beginning of 2010, and it is one of only seven states to have paid down credit card debt by more than 10 percent so far, ...

Hawaii consumers decreased credit card debt by 8 percent in August, according to the credit advocate Creditkarma.com. In its monthly U.S. Credit Score Climate Report released Monday, Creditkarma.com ...

A year after offering free credit monitoring to all Americans on account of its massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 148 million people, Equifax now says it has chosen ...