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Dozens of CFPB workers are fired as the agency remains shuttered
Dozens of employees at the bureau were fired by email on Tuesday night amid a stop-work order and closure of the Consumer ...
Should You Be Worried About the CFPB Halt? Here's What It Means for Banking
Should You Be Worried About the CFPB Halt? The Trump administration has effectively shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect ...
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President Trump Fires CFPB Director
The news comes just days after a Bloomberg report that Trump administration was considering tapping the Office of Management and ... of the Federal Reserve System’—in an amount not exceeding an ...
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NewsBriefs - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appointed as acting CFPB chair
Scott Bessent, the recently confirmed US Treasury Secretary, has been appointed as the acting chair of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by President Donald ... in the US in terms of ...
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Apple, Google coalition seeks to skirt payments rule
Digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay do not directly pay for goods and services and should therefore not be subject to an interpretive rule the CFPB finalized ... a professor of Information ...
New CFPB chief closes headquarters, tells all staff they must not do 'any work tasks'
The edict comes as Russell Vought takes over at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Vought has ordered work to halt at ...
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Disappearing CFPB? What’s Happened And What’s Next
Under certain state laws, the following statements may be required on this website and we have included them in order to be in full compliance with these rules. The choice of a lawyer or other ...
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DOGE-Backed Halt at CFPB Comes Amid Musk’s Plans for ‘X’ Digital Wallet
The actions began last Thursday, when four young staffers working under Musk for the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, showed up at CFPB’s Washington headquarters. At first ...
The technology team at financial regulator CFPB has been gutted
Around 20 technologists at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were fired on Thursday evening, gutting a team that ...
Consumer protection agency CFPB neutralized by Trump's new chief
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was rapidly defanged over the weekend with all activities suspended, its ...
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Musk’s team has gained access to CFPB building, data systems
They’ve been given CFPB laptops to access this information. WIRED notes that read-only access does not grant Musk’s team the ability to modify data and information in these systems.
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Warren: Reported effort to shutter CFPB ‘another scam’
Trump appointed Vought as acting CFPB director Friday, shortly after he was confirmed as director of the Office of Management and Budget. He took the place of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ...