President Donald Trump’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Russell Vought has taken a mallet to the agency, according to reports over the weekend. The capper seems to be ...

Financial services companies may feel relief from the aggressive federal oversight and regulation that defined the past decade. However, regulatory risk has not disappeared—it has shifted. State ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was one of the early targets of the Trump administration's attempts to dramatically reduce government spending. The bureau's work was first suspended in early ...

Welcome to 2026! As we begin another year in the fast-evolving world of consumer financial services regulation, we're here ...

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is taking a toll on consumers looking for help. The Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, offers free credit reports and maintains the "Do Not Call" ...

Here’s what the agency has been doing for U.S. consumers since it was created in 2011—and what could change if the current administration continues to scale back its budget, staff, and mission By ...

NEW YORK — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress established to monitor credit card companies, mortgage providers, debt collectors and other segments of the consumer finance ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's HQ was shut down on Sunday. Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency, wants to eliminate the agency. The first director of CFPB told BI ...

This past week the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) stopped operations and halted funding to the agency. Born out of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer ...