The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, now led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, agreed to temporarily halt enforcement ...

In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to debt collection practices. Like 2023, the theme of 2024 was ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been a focal point for both regulatory oversight and political debate ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for a halt on most of the CFPB's work. It could impact rules on overdraft fees, ...

"Medical debt is not the crisis that the Biden administration and others have made it out to be," ... [+] writes health policy expert Sally Pipes. "And the CFPB's plan to wipe medical debt could ...

What Can't The CFPB Do Now? In recent years, the CFPB has cracked down on overdraft fees charged by banks and helped erase medical debt from credit ... white papers, government data, original ...

This puts the CFPB's work on capping overdraft fees and cracking down on medical bills into limbo. A promised cap on overdraft fees and a ban on including medical debt on credit reports have been ...