In the weeks since President Trump's return to office, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, long a target of conservatives, landed in the crosshairs of Elon Musk's DOGE, or Department of ...

This past week the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) stopped operations and halted funding to the agency. Born out of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer ...

Russell Vought’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is putting the public at risk in areas ranging from auto loans and digital payments to credit cards and credit reports. Two ...

The Trump administration moved to eliminate nearly 90% of staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Legal challenges have prevented the Trump administration from shutting down the agency.

The agency, which has returned $21 billion to consumers since its inception, could lose 1,500 of its 1,700 employees, a union warned. By Stacy Cowley The Trump administration sent layoff notices on ...

CFPB ensures financial markets fairness, focusing on rule enforcement and consumer education. Established post-2008 crisis, CFPB centralizes oversight of banking/lending practices. Investors benefit ...

Debt collectors don’t always play by the rules, and with scams on the rise, it’s important to take precautions to protect ...

A federal appeals court will allow the Trump administration to further shrink the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but not dismantle it entirely. The Friday evening order from the US DC Circuit ...

The fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, is uncertain as the agency and its workers have faced a tumultuous month of February so far, possibly leaving consumers with more ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been quiet since the early days of the second Trump presidency, when the administration stopped work at the agency and told staffers to stay home. But ...

NEW YORK — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress established to monitor credit card companies, mortgage providers, debt collectors and other segments of the consumer finance ...