The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was launched in 2011 in response to the 2008 banking crisis, which destabilized millions of Americans. This new U.S. government agency' ...

In 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cited Citibank for discriminating against Armenian Americans. The recent ...

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According to the Government of Canada’s insolvency statistics for the second quarter of 2024, insolvencies — which include ...

Republican lawmakers are moving to eliminate a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule barring medical debt from ...

As the Trump administration looks to neuter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, advocates urge borrowers to step up ...

Consumers reported losing more money to scams where they paid with bank transfers or cryptocurrency than all other payment ...

For National Consumer Protection Week 2025, CoPIRG Foundation has created consumer protection tips and tools for some of the ...

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A debt collector typically can't garnish all of your income to collect on a debt, but they can take some of it.

In the same way people don’t think about their plumbing until a deathly stench rises from their shower drain, most of us have ...

A lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to kneecap the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau exposed top ...