Welcome to 2026! As we begin another year in the fast-evolving world of consumer financial services regulation, we're here ...

In its 14 years, the CFPB has created rules limiting credit card late fees and overdraft penalties, protected consumers from unfair lending practices, and much more. Here’s what might happen next. By ...

President Donald Trump’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Russell Vought has taken a mallet to the agency, according to reports over the weekend. The capper seems to be ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's HQ was shut down on Sunday. Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency, wants to eliminate the agency. The first director of CFPB told BI ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was one of the early targets of the Trump administration's attempts to dramatically reduce government spending. The bureau's work was first suspended in early ...

NEW YORK — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Congress established to monitor credit card companies, mortgage providers, debt collectors and other segments of the consumer finance ...

This past week the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) stopped operations and halted funding to the agency. Born out of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer ...

Big banks and credit unions that dominate the financial landscape would only be able to charge $5 for overdraft fees or face much tighter restrictions under a final rule by regulators. Under the ...

Errors on credit reports. Unexpected bank and other “junk” fees. New financial products that conceal their true costs and terms. For help with those problems, millions of consumers in the U.S. have ...

With the exponential growth of AI technologies, financial institutions must address algorithmic bias head on, as it is one of ...