The CFPB is funded independently through the Federal Reserve, but the CFPB director has the power to determine how much money ...

Members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) moved into the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on ...

On January 31, 2025, the CFPB announced President Donald Trump had appointed Scott Bessent as Acting Director of the CFPB. In ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk signaled on Friday that he could seek to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as he ...

Elon Musk sent a somewhat cryptic message on X hours after Wired reported that his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) entered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where DOGE staffers were ...

Some banks and credit unions will get a reprieve from complying with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s small ...

Time will tell what Trump has in store for the CFPB. For now, consumers can still access the bureau’s many educational ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in the crosshairs of the Republican group that is widely attempting to dismantle ...

A bill to limit the interest rate on credit cards has been introduced in Congress. The banking industry says capping rates ...

On January 30, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced  that it had entered into a consent order with an ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, now led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, agreed to temporarily halt enforcement ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent belatedly slipped a protection for Big Tech firms, and in particular Elon Musk’s X, into his ...