The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a consumer watchdog agency formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Elon ...

In a letter to the Treasury secretary, the Democratic senator warned against meddling with a system that processes trillions ...

The secretary replaces Rohit Chopra, who had aggressively sought to expand the bureau’s authority over banks and other ...

CFPB staff was told to refrain from issuing public communications, halt activities including rules and settlements and ...

In an email sent from acting director Scott Bessent, employees were told to pause all work related to issuing rules, ...

President Trump has tapped Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as the acting chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is ordering a freeze to work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after being named ...

After repeatedly blasting Janet Yellen last year over her department’s strategy for issuing federal debt, it’s now up to ...

T he Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was told to cease operations on Monday shortly after President Donald Trump ...

The new Treasury secretary has criticized a borrowing strategy that helped calm markets.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has begun freezing work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after its director was ...

But the agency has since been targeted by trade groups who unsuccessfully argued that the CFPB's funding violated the U.S.