Consumers deserve a fair-minded federal consumer financial regulator with the resources and talent to solve the biggest problems they face. At the same time, that agency must heed its statutory ...

Consumer protection laws in the U.S. include various federal and state laws, each of which governs a particular area of the economy. The government oversees consumer protection through the Federal ...

Senate Republicans have moved to cut the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by roughly half, as part of ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s fate hangs in the balance, and with it the extent of the government’s oversight of Americans’ savings and $18 trillion in household debt. Consumer ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James today applauded the passage of legislation to protect consumers and small businesses.

Before the CFPB, federal consumer protection laws were enforced by a variety of federal regulators — an “unusual patchwork system” that proved not only inefficient but ineffective, says ...

In the waning months of the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, released a flurry of new consumer protection rules, targeting everything from bank overdraft ...

Many other states ban "unfair" or "abusive" business practices. Democrats are seeking to make New York one of them.

Attorney General Letitia James said New York "cannot rely on the federal consumer protection laws." Credit: Sipa USA via AP/Anthony Behar By Michael Gormley [email protected] ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s fate hangs in the balance, and with it the extent of the government’s oversight of Americans’ savings and $18 trillion in household debt. Consumer ...