A number of fintechs emerged amid the COVID-19 pandemic as a flurry of Paycheck Protection Program loan applications inundated banks. Now, the government is alleging many of them facilitated or ...

Families on reduced-price lunches, earning less than $32,000 per year for a family of four, pay as much as 60 cents in fees ...

Cara Petersen, Enforcement Director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has announced her resignation, having ...

Consumer advocates and former CFPB officials worry that people aren't getting a timely response to their complaints against financial firms. The new administration wants to trim the agency's ...

President Trump plans to drop his nomination for Jonathan McKernan to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, leaving the agency in the hands of a temporary director as Mr. Trump’s ...

Updated at 5:20 p.m. ET April 18 A federal judge on Friday temporarily paused layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that impacted the majority of the banking regulator’s workforce.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered an immediate halt to the planned firings of nearly 1,500 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

What to know about the CFPB amid apparent DOGE efforts to shut it down 02:05. President Trump's administration is drastically shrinking the size and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection ...

The CFPB was created after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal. The CFPB has been a top target of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is drastically shrinking the workforce and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, eviscerating an agency created after the Great Recession ...

A special police member monitors a protest, while inside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) building, the day after members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE ...

Rohit Chopra, the former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was fired by the Trump administration on Feb. 1. Rocket Homes said Rohit Chopra and the CFPB brought an "empty claim ...