At least one political appointee at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is raising concerns about fees JPMorgan Chase & ...

Banks and their lobbyists must put appropriate pressure on the Trump administration to avoid any further gutting of the CFPB — for their own sake. A robust consumer protection regime ensures that ...

Advocates that pressed for the creation of the CFPB in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis designed its funding mechanism to insulate the agency from political pressure and provide it with a ...

High Noon for the CFPB at the Supreme Court The Justices have a chance to tell Congress it can’t shirk its duty by creating regulators insulated from political accountability. By ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been a focal point for both regulatory oversight and political debate arguably since its inception. Created in 2010 as a response to the ...

But the CFPB, which was developed after the 2008 financial crisis and modeled on a proposal from Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, has evolved into less of a political football than it was in 2017.

Certainly, individuals in the Armenian community are both Republicans and Democrats, so this is not a political issue for us, it's a right and wrong issue," Melkonian said. "Agencies such as the CFPB, ...

Each year the CFPB director simply requests funding from the Fed, which must transfer the money as long as it doesn’t exceed 12% of the central bank’s operating expenses.

The government agency formed in the wake of the Great Recession acts to regulate financial products, like credit cards & mortgages. But, conservatives have never liked the CFPB, and its new acting ...