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The agency was created after the 2008 financial meltdown, as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. That law was passed in the wake of the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis ...

Over 190 House and Senate Democrats joined a letter vowing to protect CFPB A group of 191 House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of ...

The Supreme Court may decide as soon as Friday whether to tackle a new case that could further constrain the power of US regulators to delve into American businesses and individual lives. In recent ...

A federal judge has rejected a claim by the Trump administration that it is barred from funding a consumer watchdog agency.

The billionaire Elon Musk and the California venture capitalist Marc Andreessen have started a debate about the role of government that we should be having — but it might not go the way they would ...

Established in the wake of the Great Recession, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a government agency intended to do exactly what its name states: protect consumers financially by ...

Congress is considering whether to remedy many of the most punishing regulatory elements of the Dodd–Frank Act, including revamping the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB ...

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