Lessons and 2025 Emerging Trends” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review.

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 ...

Trump critics are hypocrites who didn't criticize Biden power grabs. They are also ignorant of major constitutional crises ...

Past efforts to restructure bank supervision have been derailed by politics and agency turf wars. It remains to be seen whether the Trump administration is willing to spend the political capital ...

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

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened in 2011 with a mandate to regulate financial institutions, its detractors ...

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

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 ...