The Federal Trade Commission, charged with enforcing consumer protections, is seizing on an opening as the Trump ...

New financial products that conceal their true costs and terms.  For help with those problems, millions of consumers in the U ...

Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion dominate headlines, but dozens of lesser-known firms are steadily compiling detailed profiles of consumers for everything from job applications to apartment rentals.

NEW YORK (AP) — The lights are on at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau across the street from the White House, and employees still get paid. But in practice, the bureau has been mostly ...

As of July 2025, a federal judge abolished proposed federal rules to remove medical debt from consumer credit reports.

Critics argue Trump wants to end the agency, not just streamline it. A federal judge wants to hear directly from one of the top officials at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau to learn if the ...

Sensitive personal information belonging to 4.4 million customers, including names and Social Security numbers, was exposed in a data breach on credit bureau TransUnion, in what is believed to be the ...

Since 2011, the CFPB has defended Americans’ economic security, handling complaints to ensure customers are treated fairly by banks and other corporations. Consumers’ Top Watchdog: The CFPB’s Vital ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing reducing supervision of all but the largest nonbanks in four key markets: auto financing, consumer credit reporting, debt collection and ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it intends to revise an Open Banking Rule finalized during the Biden administration, which would have given consumers more control over their financial ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The lights are on at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau across the street from the White House, and employees still get paid. But, in practice, the bureau has been mostly ...