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Trump to Withdraw Nominee to Lead Consumer Bureau
Jonathan McKernan is expected to be tapped for a Treasury Department post instead after waiting for months for the full ...
US consumer watchdog to scrap scores of financial oversight policies issued since 2011
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a list on Friday of nearly 70 policy and regulatory guidance documents ...
Trump to shift consumer watchdog pick to senior Treasury role
U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Jonathan McKernan, has instead been ...
With CFPB, It's Buy Now, Pay Later, Enforcement Not So Much
On May 6, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced it will no longer prioritize enforcement actions taken on buy ...
US Treasury says Trump to nominate McKernan for undersecretary role
U.S. President Donald Trump intends to nominate Jonathan McKernan, who he also nominated to lead the Consumer Financial ...
House GOP shuts down Democrats’ oversight of Trump
The Trump probe-related measure passed the House Rules Committee, where Republicans hold a 9-4 edge, as the majority party ...
A DOGE aide helped fire most Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staffers. He had potential conflicts of interest.
Before he helped fire most Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staffers, DOGE’s Gavin Kliger was warned about his ...
Consumers May Have Fewer Protections When Using Buy-Now-Pay-Later Plans
Trump's CFPB will effectively stop enforcing a Biden-era rule that gave consumers the right to dispute charges on buy-now-pay ...
Banks are keeping credit card rates high even after the CFPB rule they blamed for high APRs was killed
Retail cards hit a record high average interest rate of 30.5% last year, and rates have stayed close to those levels this ...
Consumer watchdog halts Biden-era Google Payment supervision, Bloomberg News reports
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau discontinued its order designating the supervision of Alphabet's Google Payment Corp ...
Trump's CFPB drops enforcement of buy now, pay later rule in latest rollback of consumer protections
The CFPB said Tuesday it will stop enforcing a Biden-era rule treating buy now, pay later firms like credit card lenders.
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McKernan tapped for Treasury post, CFPB future unclear
The Trump administration says it will nominate Jonathan McKernan to serve as Treasury under secretary for domestic finance. McKernan has already been nominated as the next director of the Consumer ...