The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is meant to protect us from predatory finance. That’s why Trump wants it gone.

The Trump administration's ongoing efforts to deregulate banking could have profound implications for U.S. consumers, with ...

Only Congress can eliminate the CFPB, and some of Trump's efforts to shut it down have been halted by the courts. Even a less ...

The Trump administration is well on its way to abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while state officials and ...

On March 13, in a response to a court’s request for additional briefing, the CFPB requested a federal judge to levy $43 million in fines ...

The CFPB headquarters is still closed. Some reinstated employees still need to get their access to the systems and even ...

On March 12, the CFPB and its Acting Director, Russell Vought, filed a status report in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ...

The pause and reversal publishing a key mortgage rate is seen as a roadblock against recent moves to scale back or close the CFPB.

Consumer advocates warn that weakening the CFPB leaves Americans vulnerable to financial industry abuses. Created after the ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reinstated all probationary and most term employees it had terminated, after a ...

The CFPB’s short history tells a broader story about government bureaucracy that officials at the Department of Government Efficiency ought to keep in mind: Regulatory regimes do not emerge out of ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was launched in 2011 in response to the 2008 banking crisis, which destabilized millions of Americans. This new U.S. government agency' ...