A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plans to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection ...

With consumer protection agencies scaling back, consumers can take steps to protect their financial well-being.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects consumers from financial fraud, is being dismantled, leaving Americans vulnerable to predatory practices. Consumers should contact their ...

Once a powerful watchdog for financial wrongdoing, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has seen its enforcement efforts ...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 60 Minutes He said it would be obvious if he was doing something that would benefit one of his companies. However, it's not obvious or transparent to many.

Established in the wake of the Great Recession, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a government agency intended to do exactly what its name states: protect consumers financially by ...

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 ...

The CFPB was created in 2010 in response to the financial crisis that triggered the Great Recession. Since Congress established the bureau, it would take an act of Congress to fully dissolve it.

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday dropped a series of enforcement actions against financial services companies accused of wrongdoing under the prior administration ...

Fifteen years later we can judge the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by its results. The number of banks in America, according to the FDIC, has plummeted from 7,500 to 4,500, with regulatory ...

The Trump administration moved to eliminate nearly 90% of staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Legal challenges have prevented the Trump administration from shutting down the agency.