The agency was created after the 2008 financial meltdown, as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. That law was passed in the wake of the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis ...

The Supreme Court may decide as soon as Friday whether to tackle a new case that could further constrain the power of US regulators to delve into American businesses and individual lives. In recent ...

NPR's Tamara Keith speaks with Rohit Chopra, the director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, about a Supreme Court decision that validated how the bureau is funded. We start this hour ...

Could your debt be reduced or forgiven? Take our financial relief quiz. Consumer protection laws help keep businesses honest by shielding consumers against companies that operate with unfair, ...

When President Barack Obama signed legislation in 2010 to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he said the new agency had one priority: "looking out for people, not big banks, not lenders, ...

The ruling targets a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that would have removed medical debt from 15 million credit reports. Lesley Stahl reports on President Trump’s efforts to halt the work ...

Financial exploitation in the elder population has been on the rise, with financial institutions reporting quadruple the number of such incidences from 2013 to 2017, according to the Consumer ...

Political Director and Executive Director of Politics and White House, CBS News Fin Daniel Gómez is CBS News' political director and executive director, Politics and White House. In this role, Gómez ...

Republicans have long wanted to kill the CFPB. With Musk and Russell Vought, they may finally have their chance. Elon Musk is very excited to speak during an inauguration event at Capital One Arena on ...

Elon Musk has said he wants to eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB was created after the 2008 crisis to protect consumers from financial abuses. It has recouped billions for ...

In this op-ed, five former employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reflect on being fired from the agency as part of massive reductions across the federal workforce. Authors’ note: Our ...

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