The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established to root out corporate wrongdoing after the 2008 crash. The Trump administration has moved to weaken it.

A federal judge in Texas ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is overstepping its bounds in its attempts to check whether banks and other financial firms are discriminating against ...

It was created to "increase accountability in government by consolidating consumer financial protection authorities that had existed across seven different federal agencies into one," according to ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—the small federal agency with a big mission to help consumers navigate the financial marketplace—could effectively be shutting down for the next four ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has taken steps to place Google under formal federal supervision, a move that could subject the company to the same inspections the government ...

President Donald Trump is drastically shrinking the workforce and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, eviscerating an agency created after the Great Recession with the goal of ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will be shut down for a week, according to multiple reports. The CFPB’s Chief Operating Officer Adam Martinez said in a Sunday email that there ...

Following the 2008 financial crisis which led to the Great Recession, Congress created the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and gave it broad powers to combat “unfair, deceptive, or abusive” ...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra testified on a semi-annual report of his agency before the House Financial Services Committee. Several members of the Republican majority ...