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

Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened in 2011 with a mandate to regulate financial institutions, its detractors have tried to eliminate it. They have questioned its ...

Your best course of action remains the same, whether the CFPB returns or not. Establish a strong credit history by treating all of your accounts responsibly. This way, you’ll not only keep the ...

CFPB staffers have stopped signing off on redress plans from ... He applied for the store's credit card and was denied — an outcome that surprised him, given his solid credit history and his ability ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ March 9 The Washington Post says Americans need the CFPB Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened in 2011 with a ...

Last spring and summer, The Fulcrum published a 30-part series on Project 2025. Now that Donald Trump's second term The Fulcrum has started Part 2 of the series has commenced. Project 2025, the ...

Agencies from Social Security to the IRS store sensitive data on millions of Americans. Here's what the government knows ...

Among them are Mark McArdle, an assistant CFPB director who led the mortgage markets team for seven years, and David Bleicken, the operations chief of supervision who spent nearly 14 years at the ...

During a lengthy court hearing on Monday, CFPB's Chief Operating Officer Adam Martinez gave a full sworn account of the chaos and confusion that has consumed the federal agency that was set up to ...

For years, American financial companies have fought the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the courts and the media. Now, with the CFPB on life support after the Trump administration issued a ...

A top official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) gave an inside account of the “chaos” and “confusion” that overtook the agency when the Department of Government ...