Top officials at the embattled U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have not allowed staff to resume supervising financial companies despite committing to engage in all legally-required ...

Nearly 200 contract terminations are impacting key functions for the CFPB — and they are not easily undone, according to contracting officer's legal affidavit A person who describes himself as a ...

A federal judge Friday temporarily stopped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from continuing mass firings of employees, throwing up an initial roadblock to President Donald Trump’s fast ...

He and I conducted via email the interview below about the ongoing shutdown of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and what it means for both the financial sector and consumers.

The directors of supervision and enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stepped down on Tuesday morning, with both citing the stop work orders issued in recent days by the agency’s ...

Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday dropped its lawsuit against several big banks for failing to safeguard the Zelle payments network from fraud.

The Trump administration appears to be trying to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a consumer watchdog focused on the financial sector. With the CFPB under threat of closure ...

Sources tell WIRED that the CFPB’s enforcement division was hit hard, but it’s unclear how many employees were let go. Workers were informed that they had been fired with a frenetic email ...

The consumer watchdog agency began layoffs on Thursday. Government lawyers representing the acting director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau reached an agreement during a court conference ...

Late last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—which is tasked with rooting out financial malfeasance—issued a rule that expanded its purview to include digital payment apps like ...

About two-thirds of surveyed Americans support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), according to a new poll released Wednesday. Some 67 percent of Americans said they favor the ...