Once a powerful guardian against wrongdoing by banks and financial services companies, the Consumer Financial Protection ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plans to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection ...

The personal impact of the 2008 housing crisis on a student's family reveals why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

Charlene Crowell is a senior fellow with the Center for Responsible Lending. This week she warns that the newly passed budget ...

Since its creating in 2010 following the financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been both ambitious and divisive. Democrats and activists groups say it's a crucial fighter ...

By Derek Kravitz. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—the small federal agency with a big mission to help consumers navigate the financial marketplace—could effectively be shutting down ...

Consumer financial protection requires constant, flexible vigilance. Lawbreakers are always creative and resourceful; ...

Congress overturned a rule that would have capped overdraft fees at some banks and credit unions. Consumer Investigator ...

The CFPB was created in 2010 in response to the financial crisis that triggered the Great Recession. Since Congress established the bureau, it would take an act of Congress to fully dissolve it.

Elderly Americans lose more than $28 billion a year to financial exploitation, and the results can be devastating -- from ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest U.S. government agency to have its work halted by the Trump administration Cora Lewis Wednesday 12 February 2025 18:33 GMT ...

The demand for financial protection policies increased during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. There was a huge surge in ratios of bad debt with the inability to pay loans with job losses, salary ...