CFPB's General Counsel Who Pushed Muscular Agency Set to Depart
Seth Frotman, the top lawyer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is set to depart after leading the agency through a ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Is Being Told to Stop Its Work. 5 Ways That Could Impact Consumers Like You.
In its 14 years, the CFPB has created rules limiting credit card late fees and overdraft penalties, protected consumers from ...
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Breaking: Treasury Secretary Bessent Heads Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Immediately Orders Freeze of CFPB Activities
On Saturday, February 1, 2025, it was announced that President Donald Trump had removed Rohit Chopra as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In a statement from the CFPB on ...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ordered To Stop Work After Trump Says Treasury’s Bessent Now In Charge
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was told to cease operations on Monday shortly after President Donald Trump appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to serve a ...
Tech’s Trump Backers—Zuckerberg, Musk—Hate CFPB. It’s Now Been Paused.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to halt work Monday, following months of ...
Bessent Takes Helm of Consumer Finance Watchdog, Orders Halt to Work
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is ordering a freeze to work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after being named ...
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Dark patterns: Ministry of Consumer Protection sees urgent need for action
Federal Consumer Protection Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) is appealing to the EU Commission to take tougher action against manipulative or addictive designs ("dark patterns"). The Federal ...
American Banker14d
Mufarrige to lead FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection
In this week's banking news roundup: Christopher Mufarrige is named acting director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection; TD Bank promotes Andrew Stewart, Nadir Johnes and Jo Jagadish; PayPal's ...
Sydney Morning Herald19d
Consumer spending
Melbourne and Brisbane tippers were the most generous and Sydneysiders among the most frugal as Australians tipped more in 2024. The website has failed to compete with the likes of Amazon, Shein ...
Kiplinger20d
The Best Financial Stocks to Buy
financial services, consumer finance, capital markets and insurance activities. It also includes financial exchanges & data and mortgage REITs." (That last industry is mortgage real estate ...
ConsumerAffairs21d
Consumer Protection and Legal Actions
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has imposed a $15 million fine on Equifax, a consumer reporting agency, for failing to adequately investigate consumer disputes regarding credit reports.
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US CFPB fines Cash App-parent Block over insufficient fraud protection
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday ordered payments firm Block (SQ.N), opens new tab to pay a penalty, citing fraud and weak security protocols on its mobile payment service Cash ...