Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the ...

Uncle Sam's consumer watchdog has scrapped plans to implement Biden-era rules that would've treated certain data brokers as ...

Arising from the ashes of the 2007–2009 financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was designed to ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has withdrawn a proposed rule to limit how data brokers collect and sell sensitive ...

The decision to reverse course comes after an industry lobby group called for the rule change to be withdrawn.

While the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cites policy shifts and legal concerns, critics argue the move undermines ...

The reversal comes as a surprise to many, especially given growing concerns over how personal data is collected and sold in the U.S. With the rise of digital technologies, data brokers have amassed ...

During a House Financial Services Committee markup, Rep. Ayanna Pressley speaks out in support of continued funding to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), as it serves as the everyday ...

An American surveillance society that fully stitched together the data the government already possesses would require ...

The neobank filed for an initial public offering on Tuesday shortly after announcing a new office lease in New York City.

Randall Countryman, 55, of Bonita, California, says a Biden administration proposal to forgive some student debt didn’t ...