The CFPB is widely seen as a key ally of American consumers, but critics say it costs too much and stifles innovation.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, is a government agency that oversees the consumer finance industry, ...

Will the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) recently promulgated open banking rule survive under the new Congress and incoming ...

Eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Trump's second term appears unlikely. But observers expect the agency ...

On January 7, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) filed a complaint against a nationwide consumer reporting ...

For the “failure to conduct proper investigations of consumer disputes,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) last ...

In 2017, then-President Donald Trump appointed White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As a Republican member of Congress, Mulvaney had ...

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

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

The government’s consumer watchdog sued Capital One on Tuesday for “cheating” customers out of billions in interest payments.

A top watchdog agency for consumer finance has accused the credit rating company Experian of failing to properly investigate ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has imposed a $15 million fine on Equifax, a consumer reporting agency, for failing ...