Republicans have introduced legislation that would give Congress more control over the financial consumer protection watchdog agency that has long faced opposition from Wall Street and conservatives, ...

The best consumer protection is consumer choice. When banks, credit unions, and financial technology companies compete for Americans’ business, consumers benefit from better products, lower costs, ...

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have put forward legislation to restructure an independent consumer ...

While the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in flux as the Trump administration attempts to dismantle the agency, experts say they expect oversight of financial institutions to continue, ...

The fight for consumer financial rights—protection against the abuse of your money by government and business interests—is at ...

Just days before the inauguration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the CFPB) issued guidance to states in a report titled, “Strengthening State-Level Consumer Protections: Promoting Consumer ...

The new boss at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had a jarring message for staffers Monday morning, in an internal memo leaked to Rolling Stone: “Stand down from performing any work task.” The ...

When the Dodd-Frank Act created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), it funded it directly from Federal Reserve System earnings. The CFPB’s unique funding enables it to advance partisan ...

Financial services companies may feel relief from the aggressive federal oversight and regulation that defined the past decade. However, regulatory risk has not disappeared—it has shifted. State ...

President Donald Trump’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Russell Vought has taken a mallet to the agency, according to reports over the weekend. The capper seems to be ...