Consumer protection laws are made to protect consumers from fraudulent business practices, defective products, and dangerous goods and services. They play an important role in a reliable market ...

The acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ordered staffers at the agency to stop all work ... Vought took on the same role as director and was responsible for: Overseeing ...

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Jonathan McKernan, has instead been nominated to a senior role in the Treasury Department ...

More than 1,400 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ... Mark Paoletta announced that the agency would be shifting its focus away from its supervisory roles and towards “tangible harm to ...

They don’t like government agencies that stop corporations ... Musk’s attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hinges on his new role as one of President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

President Donald Trump has fired Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ... prerogative to see who they want in that role,” a White House official told CNN.

The agency's former director ... regulation is the key to lowering costs for consumers and ensuring America’s banks can play their essential role in accelerating economic growth." ...

By Ann Carrns With the government seemingly stepping back from regulatory duties ... watchdogs. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the independent federal agency created after the 2008 ...

Since its creation in 2010, the Consumer ... role of the CFPB is likely to be diminished, just as it was in the first Trump administration. The Federal Trade Commission, another independent agency ...

A federal appeals court will allow the Trump administration to further shrink the Consumer Financial Protection ... necessary for the agency to carry out its statutory functions.