The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was one of the first targets of President Trump’s cuts to federal spending. WSJ explains what the agency does, why it has always been controversial, and what ...

Turmoil at the agency could harm not only consumers but also small state-chartered banks, as their bigger rivals gain ...

Here's some background on the scope of the CFPB's activities and how the agency's tenuous status might affect consumers.

To President Donald Trump, it’s a hotbed of “waste, fraud and abuse” whose only purpose is to “destroy people” and whose staff amounts to a ...

President Trump supercharged his overhaul of government agencies this week that included a fresh round of a widespread ...