Created at the behest of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has the ostensible goal of protecting people from bad actors and practices in the financial ...

In December 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule to limit overdraft fees, which could impact checking account customers. The rule could cap overdraft fees for big banks ...

The CFPB—tasked to protect consumers from unfair banking practices—was created by Democrats in the wake of the 2008 financial ...

Senate Republicans backed a Wednesday effort from Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

Equifax will pay a $15 million penalty for failing to properly investigate credit report disputes.

Additionally, in November 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Carrington to pay $5.25 million in fines for supposedly violating borrowers' CARES Act rights. The CFPB claims that ...

Exorbitant fees for basic banking services like withdrawals and account maintenance have only made the financial difficulties ...

Just days before the inauguration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the CFPB) issued guidance to states in a report titled, ...

That's the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an institution so misguided in both mission and execution that it does not deserve mere reform—it should be abolished outright.

(Reuters) -The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced on Friday it had fined credit reporting bureau Equifax $15 ...

and that raises questions about what happens to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Congress established the CFPB after the Great Recession to write and enforce rules for the financial industry.

Add a new certainty for 2025: A new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Whoever the new director is (I’m willing to step in and step up, Mr. President), that person ...