Jake Pearson, Joel Jacobs and Byard Duncan If you’ve ever felt scammed by a mortgage company, auto lender, credit reporting agency or other financial institution, you might have turned to the Consumer ...
No matter how much money you have—even if you have not suffered from fraud or deceptive practices—it’s important to understand the mission of the CFPB and learn more about how this agency ...
Last week, the CFPB dropped a case against the online lender Solo Funds, which the agency had said deceived borrowers about loan costs. Likewise, the CFPB dropped cases against the Berkshire ...
After a nuclear disaster, it is said rats and roaches are the only survivors. And maybe the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency, known in DC and in banking circles by its acronym, was ...
“The predicate to running a ‘more streamlined and efficient bureau’ is that there will continue to be a CFPB,” consumer bureau Acting Director Russ Vought said in a motion filed late ...
The apparent decision to keep supervision inert could run counter to claims the CFPB has made in court that it remains committed to meeting its legal obligations. The agency has denied in ...
Letitia James advanced newly proposed legislation to better protect consumers and small businesses from unfair, deceptive, ...
Jonathan McKernan, who has been tapped by President Donald Trump to become the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, promised lawmakers Thursday he would not preside over ...
Last month, workers at the CFPB were told to stop working, effectively shutting down the agency, though that order has since been challenged by a federal judge. Although the CFPB, which is tasked ...
In voluntary dismissals filed on Thursday, the CFPB dropped lawsuits it had brought against Capital One, Rocket Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire ...