Ben Gran is a freelance contributor for Forbes Advisor on banking. He also writes for The Ascent (a Motley Fool service), where he covers insurance, credit cards, personal finance and investing.

An employee tasked with implementing the firings of hundreds of staffers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is allowing some offices to resume their functions, as the Trump administration faces a legal challenge over its stop work order and other efforts ...

The article below was originally published Feb. 20, after newly installed CFPB leaders halted the agency’s work. The latest updates on changes to the CFPB under the Trump administration can be ...

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson blocked the CFPB from terminating additional employees after the Trump administration this week fired dozens of agency workers, including an entire team of ...

The CFPB’s case against the Los Angeles-based fintech firm has been ongoing since May 2024. While SoLo Funds brands itself as a third-party platform that connects borrowers to lenders with no ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked the mass firing of employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Friday after an agreement was reached between the Department of Justice and ...

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) amid a larger push to effectively dismantle the agency.

The Trump administration's decision to put the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on ice has left a $100 million pot of money intended for borrowers allegedly harmed by the student loan ...

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau promised a Senate panel Thursday that he would enforce consumer protection law without overstepping the CFPB's ...

Just as the CFPB is responsible for overseeing traditional financial institutions, the agency had also sought to exert oversight over the increasingly popular peer-to-peer payment sites.

“The predicate to running a ‘more streamlined and efficient bureau’ is that there will continue to be a CFPB,” consumer bureau Acting Director Russ Vought said in a motion filed late ...