Republicans have long targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for elimination. It survives, for now, but has ...

In this special joint episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast and Payments Pros, Chris Willis, co-leader of Troutman Pepper Locke's Consumer ...

In a win for credit bureaus and debt collectors, medical debt will be allowed to stay on your credit report after all.

Once a powerful watchdog for financial wrongdoing, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has seen its enforcement efforts ...

A tax and spending package Trump signed July 4 nearly halves the watchdog's annual funding. Resources may be stretched to police consumer financial laws.

It's unclear what this means for the CFPB case. "People aren't expecting anything big regulatory-wise coming out of the CFPB for the next few years," Moran said.

New law cuts Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding cap by 46%, saving $2 billion, Republicans say. GOP argues the ...

Consumers’ Top Watchdog: The CFPB’s Vital Role Amid Legal Challenges The exterior of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters is seen on February 10, 2025, in Washington.

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin co-led a coalition of 23 attorneys general on Friday in filing a legal brief aimed at stopping what they describe as the unlawful ...

An 11-point memo directs the agency’s staff to bring redress directly to affected consumers, “rather than imposing penalties on companies in order to simply fill the Bureau’s penalty fund,” the CFPB’s ...

CFPB is poised to abandon interpretive rule that would have subjected BNPL "pay-in-four" lenders to same regulatory framework as credit cards.

Chaos Consumes CFPB, Causing Uncertainty As leadership changes at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, banks are left waiting to see what rules might be undone.