Complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have skyrocketed in the first half of 2025, due in part to an increase ...

Consumer Financial Protection Circulars are advisory policy statements the Bureau issues under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 553(b).Circulars provide background on an applicable law ...

At least one political appointee at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is raising concerns about fees JPMorgan Chase & ...

Credit and consumer reporting have consistently topped the CFPB’s list of complaints for years and accounted for nearly 60% of all complaints last year, up from 44% in 2019. A significant portion of ...

On June 4, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued a Consumer Financial Protection Circular 2024-03 (“Circular”) warning that the use of unlawful or unenforceable ...

The three most common issues reported to the CFPB related to credit reporting were incorrect information on credit reports (30.8% of complaints), improper use of credit reports (27.6%), and ...

Established in the wake of the Great Recession, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a government agency intended to do exactly what its name states: protect consumers financially by ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has seen its enforcement efforts grind to a halt under the Trump administration.

Since the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened its doors in 2011, the watchdog has been at the center of legal fights over mortgage regulations, student loans, forced arbitration and ...

Before the CFPB, federal consumer protection laws were enforced by a variety of federal regulators — an “unusual patchwork system” that proved not only inefficient but ineffective, says ...

The U.S. government on Tuesday issued new rules to remove roughly $49 billion in unpaid medical debts from Americans’ credit reports, even as debt collectors and incoming Republican leaders have ...