In July 2011, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), officially entered service as a federal agency to investigate complaints about credit cards. Since then, it has expanded to ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established to root out corporate wrongdoing after the 2008 crash. The Trump ...

President Trump and other critics of the agency say it needs to be shut down. Supporters of the agency point to its record of ...

The cease-work order at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau won’t just affect lawsuits and enforcement actions. It will ...

If President Trump is looking for a federal agency to abolish, he needs to look no further than the misnamed Consumer ...

There were 361 complaints about reverse mortgages submitted to the CFPB in 2023, a number that dropped to 298 in 2024 There were a total of 298 consumer complaints submitted to the Consumer ...

The CFPB had started work on how that proposal would be implemented. The bureau can still take complaints, but it can’t conduct exams or pursue existing investigations, according to a person ...

In 2023, the CFPB received 1.3 million complaints about more than 3,400 companies. The bureau notes that 98% of complaints receive a timely response from the company in question. The CFPB looks at ...