Staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed by email to cease much of their work. Bessent, a wealthy ...

Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, has been tapped by President Trump to be acting director of the Consumer Financial ...

WASHINGTON, DC -Rohit Chopra has been removed as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), ending his five ...

Republican Congressman Bryan Steil, of Janesville, said Monday he supports President Donald Trump’s firing of Consumer ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has moved to temporarily halt the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's work investigating ...

A Congressional committee is moving to overturn a new rule that caps overdraft fees. On Friday, the House Financial Services ...

The halt means the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will cease crafting regulations or enforcing any rules or ...

Under Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the CFPB was closer to a progressive vigilante shakedown shop than a government regulator.

Insufficient funds transactions occur when consumers issue a payment order (a check, some other written order or an electronic debit) against funds ...

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau stopped performing its oversight duties as soon as Trump appointed Scott Bessent as ...

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau faces uncertainty as acting director, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, halts activities under directives from President Trump. The move follows the ...