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The 8 On Your Side team has heard from several viewers asking about checks they are receiving from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau involving a company called BrightSpeed Solutions. It was ...
Some 450,000 Americans aged 62 and older are in default on their student loans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...
Since the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened its doors in 2011, the watchdog has been at the center of legal fights over mortgage regulations, student loans, forced arbitration and ...
Reporting from Washington — Rep. Jeb Hensarling welcomed the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a fellow Republican, to a hearing this month in the same way he did the ...
Bureaucracy. The 5 Worst Things About the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established to root out corporate wrongdoing after the 2008 crash. The Trump ...
A federal judge in Texas ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is overstepping its bounds in its attempts to check whether banks and other financial firms are discriminating against ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau remains in limbo after President Donald Trump's attempt to fire nearly everyone at the agency was paused on Friday by a federal judge.
Our consumer team contacted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which confirmed the payment is legitimate. It stems from a 2015 settlement; the CFPB started distributing checks at the ...
The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, has been waiting for a phone call, letter, email, text — anything, really — from the Trump administration to say if he ...
Since its creating in 2010 following the financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been both ambitious and divisive. Democrats and activists groups say it's a crucial fighter ...
The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down the agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 ...