The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for the consumers ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest U.S. government agency to have its work halted by the Trump administration ...

Around 20 technologists at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were fired on Thursday evening, gutting a team that ...

Many consumer protections are in limbo, including an $8 cap on credit-card late fees and a proposed rule on selling customer ...

Here’s some background on the scope of the CFPB’s activities and how the agency’s tenuous status might affect consumers: What does the CFPB regulate? The Consumer Financial ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the so-called cop on the beat protecting Americans from financial abuse, is now ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says there are "zero cops" overseeing the consumer lending market after the CFPB headquarters were ...

Credit cards can boost your credit score if used responsibly. Credit card issuers report your financial activity to the three credit bureaus, so you can build credit with a credit card by paying ...

The survey has been running since 1990, but the CFPB recently enhanced the survey to collect more details on the types of credit card plans issuers offer. According to the CFPB, larger banks offer ...

The CFPB is soliciting comments on various aspects of the credit card market, including the terms and practices of credit card issuers, the effectiveness of disclosures related to credit card ...

"Most credit card issuers add several percentage points to the prime rate to make their cards' interest rates," says Matt Schulz, chief credit analyst at LendingTree. "That means that when a card ...

These larger card issuers account for more than 95% of outstanding credit card balances, according to the CFPB, an independent federal agency that oversees banks, credit card companies ...