Remember when the CFPB announced last year it would cap credit card late fees at $8? A typical late fee hovers around $32, so ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was launched in 2011 in response to the 2008 banking crisis, which destabilized millions of Americans. This new U.S. government agency' ...

S.D., has filed a Congressional Review Act resolution to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule barring ...

A credit sweep is a fraudulent credit repair tactic that disputes all negative items on a credit report at once.

The Trump administration intended to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through a mass workforce reduction, which ...

“People who get sick shouldn’t have their financial future upended,” former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in a news release. Critics of the rule include the three credit bureaus and hospital ...

The vast majority of 2023 complaints, Neumann said, targeted the three main credit reporting agencies: Equifax, Experian and ...

Some examples of those enforcement actions include: Keeping credit bureaus in check. The CFPB protects consumers from negligence that could harm their credit scores. For example, in January 2025 ...

In notices of voluntary dismissals filed on Thursday, the CFPB dropped lawsuits it had brought against Capital One, Rocket ...

On March 3, a trio of credit reporting agencies (defendants) moved to dismiss a plaintiff’s second amended complaint filed in the U.S. District ...