Arising from the ashes of the 2007–2009 financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was designed to protect consumers from being taken advantage of by financial institutions.

Consumer advocates led by Rise Economy have sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for the second time for failing to implement the small-business data collection rule mandated by Congress 15 ...

Perhaps compliance departments at auto lenders and other companies involved in financial services had something extra to be thankful for last week. Just ahead of Thanksgiving, the Consumer Financial ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's leadership, appointed by President Donald Trump, to halt its campaign to hobble the agency. Berman ordered Vought to ...

Back in March, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray referred to complaints as the agency’s “compass,” because these consumer statements “make a difference by informing our ...

Jake Safane has nearly 15 years of journalism and marketing experience on topics ranging from local entrepreneurship to international banking. He has written for publications such as The Economist, LA ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will serve as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the agency announced on Monday. "I look forward to working with the CFPB to ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is currently in a state of unbeing. The doors have been locked, the X account has been disabled, the workers have been barred from the building and told ...

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