When a credit card company agrees to accept less than the full amount you owe — say, $20,000 on a $30,000 balance — it’s called a debt settlement. The lender agrees to forgive the remaining $10,000, ...

For Kevin St. Pierre, the math on credit cards is pretty simple. “Generally, if the consumer has income, they pay their debts,” St. Pierre, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, said in a note to ...

American Express' (NYSE:AXP) August consumer credit card delinquency and net charge-off rates were unchanged from the prior month, the company said in a Monday filing. The U.S. consumer card ...

U.S. credit card delinquencies, or accounts where borrowers have missed payments, barely budged in August, while net charge-offs, the loans banks have to write off as uncollectible, drifted higher.

If your credit card or personal loan debt has spiraled out of control, which is the case for a lot of borrowers in today's economic climate, hearing that a creditor "wrote off" your balance might ...