President Trump and other critics of the agency say it needs to be shut down. Supporters of the agency point to its record of protecting consumers.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest U.S. government agency to have its work halted by the Trump administration.

A group of 191 House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of ...

Jonathan McKernan has been nominated to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has been in turmoil for days and has fired a number of probationary employees.

The White House also plans to nominate Jonathan Gould as head of the OCC, and Brian Quintenz as chairman of the Commodity ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the so-called cop on the beat protecting Americans from financial abuse, is now under strict orders to do nothing.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a go-to financial agency for dealing with bad practices. Trump ...

"If the FDIC is dismantled, all money in our banks would be at risk," Steele said. However, experts point out that for now, ...

With the government's consumer watchdog agency off the job on the orders of President Donald Trump, Democratic lawmakers are ...

The White House plans to nominate Jonathan McKernan, a former member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as ...

The CFPB, created in the wake of the 2008 banking crisis, has been targeted for possible elimination. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

While Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan called the recent regulatory shift “classic re-engineering,” one peer exec said the ...