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 ...

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 ...

CFPB employees at that time “closed our laptop lids and walked away,” Pfaff said. When they returned, they found a backlog that Pfaff said would take weeks, if not months, to work through ...