You can still report badly behaving banks to the CFPB
Trump officials halted work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the agency's public portal for reporting ...
What is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and why is it a Trump target?
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established to root out corporate wrongdoing after the 2008 crash. The Trump ...
Trump officials plan to fire 95% of CFPB staff, cancel its lease, union lawsuit says
The Trump administration is planning to hollow out the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by firing 95% of its staff ...
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Is the CFPB Being Eliminated? What Could That Mean for You?
What could that mean for consumers? "In the short term, the CFPB has a mechanism for submitting complaints about financial products or services, and companies would typically respond in 15 days ...
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Should You Be Worried About the CFPB Halt? Here's What It Means for Banking
One of the CFPB's roles was resolving customer complaints against financial institutions through a consumer complaint database. Without the CFPB, institutions may be less likely to respond to ...
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What CFPB ‘stand down' means for consumers
Federal employees that oversee financial services, like credit cards or loans, have been told to “stand down”. In an email, obtained by NBC News, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s ...
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The CFPB Work Freeze Is Putting Big Tech Regulations ‘On Ice’
These investigations involve processing complaints sent to the CFPB, interviewing corporate executives, and obtaining internal documents through civil investigative demands, which is similar to a ...
As Musk, Trump administration target CFPB, Democrats defend consumer watchdog's impact
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to safeguard ...