Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having ...

The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for the consumers ...

A credit-monitoring service keeps track of your accounts and notifies you of all new activity. Most of these services cost ...

Bad credit shows potential lenders a negative track record of managing credit. Meanwhile, no credit means lenders can’t tell ...

credit card network and payment processor) involved in facilitating the card payment process. All of these fees together, therefore, can add up to a decent percentage of the total sales transaction.

The CFP also prosecutes companies that it says fail to protect consumers. In December, it filed a lawsuit against the ...

The furious pace of deregulation is gutting agencies intended to protect ordinary Americans, consumer advocates say. But ...

The CFPB emerged in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis with the mission of "enforcing federal consumer financial laws and ...

The agency was established under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the aftermath of the subprime-mortgage crisis, during which reckless lending by the mortgage ...

While business groups have long lamented actions taken by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Trump and his allies want ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the so-called cop on the beat protecting Americans from financial abuse, is now ...