Wesley Ward, an Illinois State University alum from Bloomington-Normal, worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, is a federal agency that helps protect consumers from financial harm. For ...

The FDIC Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection investigates any consumer complaints regarding FDIC-supervised banks.

The CFPB emerged in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis with the mission of "enforcing federal consumer financial laws and ...

Open banking has long been an industry-led venture. The trendline won’t change even if the timeline does, Plaid’s head of ...

The injunction temporarily ensures the continuation of the CFPB's operations, but significant questions remain regarding the agency's future authority and structure, creating uncertainty across the ...

Cordray's original ability-to-repay underwriting standards were challenged in court by payday lenders and later rescinded in the first Trump administration by former CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger. He ...

The CFPB stepped in to clarify consumer rights and protections for BNPL products. But with the future of the CFPB in question, those protections could be weakened or disappear altogether.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Friday that it will not enforce the payday lending rule that goes into effect on Sunday and plans to narrow the scope of the rule with a future rulemaking ...

As Congress debates reforms to the agency, many student loan borrowers face uncertainty about the future of key protections. If the CFPB is shut down or stripped of its regulatory power ...

You may still be able to submit a CFPB complaint, but given the agency’s uncertain future, you can also look into other options. If you want to submit a different type of complaint in support of ...

If the CFPB is effectively shut down or severely ... Eliminating the department completely requires congressional approval, and its future is uncertain. Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Oversight ...