It's Time To Shutter The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Created at the behest of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has the ostensible goal of protecting people from bad actors and practices in the financial ...
Cruz to revive push to abolish government consumer protection agency
Senate Republicans backed a Wednesday effort from Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...
Ted Cruz Leads Republican Charge to Defund Consumer-Protection Agency
The CFPB—tasked to protect consumers from unfair banking practices—was created by Democrats in the wake of the 2008 financial ...
Is the CFPB Helping or Harming Consumers?
Readers consider the bureau’s policies under Rohit Chopra.
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Ousting the CFPB’s Chopra wasn’t a ‘day one’ priority
The Trump administration has issued dozens of executive orders, but change to banking regulations and agency leaders isn’t ...
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CFPB Rule Would Help Medical Debtholders: Who Are They?
People in this impacted group could see their credit scores jump by 20 points, according to the CFPB. With this new ruling, the CFPB hopes to remove the economic barriers that medical debt creates ...
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Capital One sued by CFPB for allegedly cheating customers out of $2 billion
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is suing Capital One, alleging the bank illegally misled customers by not notifying them of account options that paid higher interest rates.
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Capital One sued by CFPB for allegedly cheating customers out of $2 billion
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is suing Capital One, alleging the bank illegally misled customers by not notifying them of account options that paid higher interest rates. The federal ...