The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a government agency tasked with financial regulation and oversight. Read more about this agency inside.

A Justice Department office argued the Fed has no money to fund the bureau. But the CFPB’s acting director hasn’t asked the central bank for money anyway. The week’s boldest CFPB-related move, though, ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a long-anticipated Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) revising its data collection rule under Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act. The move ...

The Trump administration has declared the CFPB's funding from the Federal Reserve unlawful, sparking another legal battle over the agency's operations. The CFPB expects to function until the end of ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to propose in the coming days narrowing a key part of civil-rights era fair-lending regulations as Republican ...

The Department of Justice told a court that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cannot legally request funding from the Federal Reserve System because the central bank technically has no profits.

The Trump administration has declared that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding mechanism is illegal, which could force the agency to close in the coming months when it runs out of cash, ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a notice Oct. 28 clarifying that the Fair Credit Reporting Act preempts state laws on credit reporting, including those regarding medical debt. As a ...