At least one political appointee at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is raising concerns about fees JPMorgan Chase & ...

Congress should not have created the CFPB. Multiple federal agencies already existed to enforce consumer protection laws. The ...

Market reactions to potential rate cuts are often positive in the short run, though the optimism can fade quickly if ...

Banks and their lobbyists must put appropriate pressure on the Trump administration to avoid any further gutting of the CFPB — for their own sake.

New law cuts Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding cap by 46%, saving $2 billion, Republicans say. GOP argues the ...

Russell Vought suggested Jerome Powell is in violation of government building rules in the renovation of the Fed’s ...

An employee tasked with implementing the firings of hundreds of staffers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau testified in court Tuesday that she believed the plan to dismantle the agency ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a political punching bag for years, but on the eve of a new Trump administration, it might survive.

Trump Advisers Eye Bank Regulator Consolidation After Targeting CFPB© Ting Shen for WSJ Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. headquarters in Washington.© Ting Shen for WSJ Russell Vought, director of ...

With political changes ensuing, stakeholders and experts alike across the financial sector seem to be scrambling to anticipate what comes next regarding the CFPB.

The Trump administration has agreed to pause layoffs and funding cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, the federal agency responsible for cracking down on “junk” fees and ...

The government agency formed in the wake of the Great Recession acts to regulate financial products, like credit cards & mortgages. But, conservatives have never liked the CFPB, and its new acting ...