credit reporting and debt collection. Not only will the CFPB work to get you a response from the company, it also uses consumer complaints to prioritize its initiatives. Blow the whistle ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a go-to financial agency for dealing with bad practices. Trump ...

Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here . ••• Economic and employment data told a statistical story of the Great Depression. But the human ...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) slammed the National Institutes of Health’s decision to slash billions of dollars in “indirect” ...

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Jonathan McKernan to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau brought some relief ...

But it's worth remembering that it was Director Kraninger's CFPB that issued final Regulation F, the rule interpreting the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. In short, the change in the ...

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

With the CFPB shut down, banks and lenders now face no federal oversight, putting homeowners and consumers at risk of foreclosure, fraud, and ...

The CFPB emerged in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis with the mission of "enforcing federal consumer financial laws and ...

The bureau terminated roughly 70 to 100 term employees Thursday. An amended complaint asserts there's more to come — and that ...

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 ...