On May 12, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a sweeping withdrawal of 67 guidance documents issued since the CFPB’s inception, signaling a marked shift in its regulatory ...

If CFPB goes unfunded, what would happen is the country would basically end up in the same spot where it was before the ...

On November 21, the CFPB announced changes to how its Supervision Division will conduct examinations, including a new “Humility Pledge” that examiners must read to supervised entities at the start of ...

Perhaps compliance departments at auto lenders and other companies involved in financial services had something extra to be thankful for last week. Just ahead of Thanksgiving, the Consumer Financial ...

Jake Safane has nearly 15 years of journalism and marketing experience on topics ranging from local entrepreneurship to international banking. He has written for publications such as The Economist, LA ...

In an exclusive interview with SubPrime Auto Finance News, Hudson Cook partner and former assistant director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Rick Hackett offered quick-hitting analysis of ...

Consumer advocates led by Rise Economy have sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for the second time for failing to implement the small-business data collection rule mandated by Congress 15 ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's leadership, appointed by President Donald Trump, to halt its campaign to hobble the agency. Berman ordered Vought to ...

Russell Vought’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is putting the public at risk in areas ranging from auto loans and digital payments to credit cards and credit reports. Two ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will serve as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the agency announced on Monday. "I look forward to working with the CFPB to ...

Although this news has certainly garnered headlines — just as Bessent did a week earlier in telling CFPB employees to halt bureau activities — enforcement experts believe the skipping of a funding ...

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