Alternative options if you're the victim of unfair and abusive practices as the consumer watchdog 'winds down.' ...

President Trump and Elon Musk probably would not have put Rohit Chopra and his CFPB on their hit list had he run it with ...

On February 20, several business groups and trade associations filed a motion for summary judgment in the U.S. District Court for the ...

The Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) structure and authority has become a central ... staff to access sensitive ...

Fortunately, the agency’s unaccountable structure is also its Achilles ... Economist EJ Antoni points out that since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is supposed to be funded by Fed ...

New York has joined over 20 other states in supporting two lawsuits against the shuttering of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. New York State Attorney General Letitia James and attorneys ...

Fortunately, the CFPB’s unaccountable structure is also its Achilles’ heel. In 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that the provision saying the president can’t fire the CFPB director is ...

The CFPB, under the Biden administration, took issue with SoLo’s “tip” structure, which obscured the total cost of loans, since borrowers are prompted to tip lenders and make “donations” to SoLo. The ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and peer-to-peer lending platform SoLo Funds agreed to put an end to the agency’s lawsuit against the company amid a broader halt to enforcement actions ...

U.S. consumers are at greater risk of being exploited by tech giants and financial firms after President Donald Trump fired a team of technologists from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

In the waning months of the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, released a flurry of new consumer protection rules, targeting everything from bank overdraft ...

Updated Feb. 27. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dropped at least four lawsuits brought against financial services companies by the previous director, according to news reports on Feb. 27.