A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily paused an order that blocked the Trump administration from effectively dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). A panel of three ...

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from effectively dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an early target of Elon Musk and the Department of ...

All of those breakthroughs, of course, happened before Donald Trump took office and appointed his right-wing budget director, Russell Vought, to oversee the CFPB. As The New York Times reported ...

Regardless of what happens to the CFPB, it is critical that we do not undervalue the data it collects and disseminates. Since 2011, more than 8 million complaints across more than 7,000 institutions ...

Plaintiffs' lawyers and state attorneys general are also going after some of the same alleged misconduct as the CFPB, I found in reviewing the agency’s docket, opens new tab. Sign up here.

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This is likely not the last say on the future of the CFPB, as the Trump administration plans to file an appeal and the court case moves forward. The government's banking watchdog is set to get ...

Learn more: What is redlining, and how does it affect Black communities? In a surprise move this week, however, the CFPB asked a court to undo its settlement and dismiss the case, claiming it had ...

In addition to these operational changes, Vought announced that the CFPB would not draw its next round of funding from the Federal Reserve, citing the agency's current reserves of $711.6 million ...

We don’t know what the status of the CFPB will be tomorrow. Here’s how to protect your bank accounts going forward. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising ...

Since then, the CFPB has issued 30 other orders against banks and financial services groups totaling at least $280 million in total consumer redress, according to actions tracked by American Banker.

Last month, workers at the CFPB were told to stop working, effectively shutting down the agency, though that order has since been challenged by a federal judge. Although the CFPB, which is tasked ...