Fifteen years ago last month, following the financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law. One of the most significant changes ushered in under Dodd-Frank was the creation of a new federal ...

A federal appeals court panel lifted a lower court’s order Friday that blocked the Trump administration‘s efforts to fire most employees from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A three-judge ...

The removal of the CFPB as a viable regulator has thrown the doors open to the kind of unscrupulous behavior that triggered the last major financial crisis, writes Kathleen Engel, of Suffolk ...

The CFPB hangs in the balance — as do thousands of federal jobs, after a judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked mass firings for two weeks ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer watchdog agency designed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that has been under constant Republican assault since it opened its doors in 2011, has ...

A federal appeals court heard arguments Friday about an effort to massively scale back a federal consumer protection agency’s staff that has sparked alarm among advocates who worry about what it would ...

The court seems ready to give the president extraordinary power over what had been independent worker- and consumer-protection agencies. The west façade of the Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC ...

Federal government shuts down after budget impasse• Consumer advocates warn of sweeping risks to housing, food, finance, and data privacy• Essent ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James today applauded the passage of legislation to protect consumers and small businesses. Responding to cutbacks at federal consumer protection agencies, New York ...