The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau helps protect consumers in a variety of ways, but its future is uncertain. You can file a complaint against a bank using an online CFPB complaint form.

Buy now, pay later protections enacted by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are at risk as the agency loses its regulatory power. BNPL lenders may revert to practices like predatory fees ...

Top officials at the embattled U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have not allowed staff to resume supervising financial companies despite committing to engage in all legally-required ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday dropped a series of enforcement actions against financial services companies accused of wrongdoing under the prior administration, including a ...

Americans will no longer have to decide what's more important: Their health or their credit score. Finalized on January 7, a ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it is in discussions with bank trade groups to settle a lawsuit challenging the bureau's $8 credit card late fee rule. The CFPB was granted 30 days by ...

Ben Gran is a freelance contributor for Forbes Advisor on banking. He also writes for The Ascent (a Motley Fool service), where he covers insurance, credit cards, personal finance and investing.

After a nuclear disaster, it is said rats and roaches are the only survivors. And maybe the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency, known in DC and in banking circles by its acronym, was ...

The cancellation of nearly three-dozen cybersecurity contracts at the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau endangers the security of sensitive data maintained by the federal watchdog, a former ...

May I have your attention, please? I know you’re upset about the price of eggs. The stock market is showing signs of chaos fatigue, pulling down the returns you expect and hope to be there for ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Trump-appointed leadership plans to fire nearly all its 1,700 employees while “winding down” the agency, according to testimony from employees.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a federal agency that helps protect consumers from bad actors in the financial services industry. In February 2025, the Trump administration halted work ...