The CFP also prosecutes companies that it says fail to protect consumers. In December, it filed a lawsuit against the ...

Founded in 2011 after the 2008 financial crisis, the CFPB is tasked with regulating consumer finance, including overseeing ...

Courts might stop the Trump administration from completely eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but many of ...

The Biden administration issued a rule that would bar medical debt from being included on credit reports. Consumer advocates ...

On Thursday, the CFPB agreed to put the medical debt rule on hold for 90 days and hold off on litigation for three months. The bureau did not oppose a preliminary injunction granted by the U.S.

And the CFPB's plan to wipe medical debt could actually hurt the very people it is meant to help. From a purely economic perspective, the rule makes little sense. As former Congressional Budget ...

On February 6, the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas issued a 90-day stay of the upcoming March 17 effective date of the ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the so-called cop on the beat protecting Americans from financial abuse, is now ...

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

This case, which challenges the CFPB’s Final Rule on the prohibition of medical debt information in consumer reports, has been temporarily halted as the Bureau undergoes significant leadership ...

Along with the halted rules to cap overdraft fees and remove medical debt from credit reports, the CFPB also recently took action against a mortgage lender over accusations of discriminatory ...

The fate of a Biden-era rule that would keep medical debt from consumers’ credit reports is up in the air amid reported stoppages within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB ...