CFPB to Close Office After Vought Tells Staff to Halt All Supervision
The acting director is closing the financial regulator’s headquarters and has ordered staff to halt all supervisory efforts.
Donald Trump halts CFPB operations: What it means for consumers
The Trump administration has halted the CFPB’s activities, suspending consumer protections like overdraft fee caps and ...
2 top CFPB officials resign after Trump, Musk target U.S. consumer protection agency
Two top officials in the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resigned Tuesday as the Trump administration takes aim the ...
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Two top CFPB officials resign after being ordered to stop all work
The directors of supervision and enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stepped down, citing the stop work ...
Trump wants to shut the CFPB. So what does this consumer agency do?
President Trump and other critics of the agency say it needs to be shut down. Supporters of the agency point to its record of ...
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CFPB ordered to pause work and congressional Democrats react
On January 31, the CFPB announced Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as the Acting Director. As previously covered by InfoBytes, Bessent sent an ...
DOGE takes on CFPB
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What CFPB Shutdown Means for Junk Fees
The halt of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's activities leaves CFPB rules targeting junk fees in a state of uncertainty.
Warren: Reported effort to shutter CFPB ‘another scam’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday slammed the Trump administration’s reported efforts to shutter the Consumer ...
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New Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Acting Director Expands Freeze to All CFPB Activities; CFPB Office Closes
We previously reported that Treasury Secretary Bessent was named as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection ...
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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Will the State Attorneys General and Other Stage Agencies Fill the Void Left by the CFPB?
Today’s podcast show is a repurposing of the second half of a webinar we produced on January 17, 2025. That webinar was Part 3 of our webinar ...
Should You Be Worried About the CFPB Halt? Here's What It Means for Banking
Should You Be Worried About the CFPB Halt? The Trump administration has effectively shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect ...