A future without a bulky wallet weighing you down may be closer than you think. Steve Henn reports on card-less pay options in development and takes his smartphone, tricked out with a special bankcard chip, for a spin.

Question: I've been looking for any past blog posts on secured credit cards. Do you have a list or a web site where I can select some secured CC…

Today, Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics released a list of 55 U.S. organized according to how cost effective it is to rent a home, rather than buy….

Plastic is back. And a new study shows Americans got a lot more credit card offers this year than last year. Eve Troeh explains.

The Federal Reserve today announced that it wanted to cap debit interchange fees, the money banks often charge retailers when consumers use their debit cards. The cap could cost banks billions in revenue, but as Jeff Tyler reports, they'd find other ways to make it up.

Your work becomes a big part of your life, to say the least. But what happens when your life starts reflecting your work — and your work is on a reality show about people who have accumulated too much debt? Sean Cole goes behind the scenes.

Elizabeth Warren says she's more focused on protecting consumers than securing a permanent job in her role as interim head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

This final note today: Some solace the next time you get stuck behind somebody paying by check in the grocery store. Yes, Mom, I'm talking to you….

And this final note. For all the pronouncements that we'd become better, smarter savers out of the financial crisis, looks like the wallets are out…

With plastic cards and e-banking, paper checks are going the way of the dinosaurs. Reporter Sally Herships takes a look at the rise and fall of checks.