It was one of the most active federal agencies, sort of a contemporary Robin Hood. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

When you apply for a credit card or loan, the bank will likely pull a credit report. Those credit reports are pulled from consumer reporting agencies. The most familiar consumer reporting agencies are ...

NEW YORK — To President Trump, it’s a hotbed of “waste, fraud and abuse” whose only purpose is to “destroy people” and whose staff amounts to a “vicious group.” To Jonathon Booth, it’s simply the ...

The Trump administration's Feb. 8 order that employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau halt much of their work amounts to an existential crisis for a government agency that itself was born ...

With the government seemingly stepping back from regulatory duties, consumers may have to act as their own financial watchdogs. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the independent federal agency ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Warren, the visionary behind the idea of a consumer financial protection agency, says that it “could make a real contribution, a real difference in the lives of millions of families” by ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The consumer bureau being defunded by the Trump Administration has dismissed its lawsuit against a Draper-based company selling rent-to-own agreements. The Consumer Financial ...

Federal regulators have finalized safety standards for two dangerous products that many advocates say should never have been on the market in the first place. The CPSC also announced it is taking ...