Rohit Chopra, head of the top watchdog agency for consumer finance, submitted his resignation early Saturday after President Donald Trump fired him overnight, according to a resignation letter he ...

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The removal of the CFPB as a viable regulator has thrown the doors open to the kind of unscrupulous behavior that triggered the last major financial crisis, writes Kathleen Engel, of Suffolk ...

The new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered its employees on Monday to stay out of the office and stop all work. Meanwhile, a union representing federal employees filed two ...

Billionaire Elon Musk, tasked with slashing government costs by President-elect Donald Trump, on Wednesday called for the elimination of a federal regulatory agency charged with protecting consumers ...

WASHINGTON − Thousands of complaints submitted by Americans to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleging fraud or scams from private companies are going unanswered following President Donald ...

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 ...

Much praised by supporters and equally criticized by detractors, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced it has finalized a rule creating a watch list of nonbank financial companies ...

"That's it!" the girl exclaimed. "That's what happened! That's what my family’s big secret was!" In Economics class, my seniors were learning about the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession.