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 ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s fate hangs in the balance, and with it the extent of the government’s oversight of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Numerous federal and state laws in the U.S. are designed to protect consumers from unscrupulous companies, ... For example, so-called "lemon ... whose expertise includes consumer protection law, ...

The CFPB cited Equifax, among other examples, as a relevant precedent. The 2017 Equifax breach resulted in the hacking of the data of "hundreds of millions" of people. The CFPB charged the firm with ...

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 ...