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

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

Key Takeaways - What Debt Protections Could Consumers Lose Without the CFPB? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was launched in 2011 in response to the 2008 banking crisis, which ...

New CFPB rules may erase $49 billion in medical debt from credit reports, boosting credit scores for 15 million Americans if enforcement proceeds.

Financial services companies may feel relief from the aggressive federal oversight and regulation that defined the past decade. However, ...

In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior months covered during the February 2025 webinar.

Late last year, the CFPB proposed a rule to expand the application of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and Regulation V to additional uses of consumer information. Data brokers would be ...

The CFPB’s proposed rule, which is open for public comment until March 3, would amend the FCRA by, among other things, altering its definitions of consumer reports and CRAs to extend its ...

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

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