Tag Archives: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

With housing affordability remaining an issue nationwide, the CFPB's Making Ends Meet report—an annual survey of consumer financial health—shows many downtrends in consumers’ ability to repay their debts.

In the Bureau’s Semi-Annual Report, Director Rohit Chopra detailed the work the CFPB has accomplished, including securing $275 million in total consumer redress and $270 million in civil money penalties.

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the design of the CFPB violated the Constitution, as it has received funding through the Federal Reserve, rather than appropriations legislation passed by Congress.

The SEC chairmanship has been vacant since Jay Clayton's resignation last month.

The Taskforce was chartered in January 2020 to study the existing legal and regulatory environment facing consumers and financial services providers.

The Bureau announced a new Deputy Chief of Staff, as well as nearly a half-dozen other new additions. Click through to learn all the details.

While prior reports by LendingTree have found single women own homes at higher rates than men, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) reports that women have less knowledge ...

Following the CFPB’s calls for 12 different RFIs last year, one mortgage industry group released an entire new “roadmap for the future” of the regulator.

In its most recent supervisory report, the CFPB identified four main problem areas at mortgage servicers as well as servicers’ solutions.

CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney’s tenure at the head of the regulatory organization has been defined by a reexamination of the Bureau’s priorities and purpose. That trend continued ...