The acting director is closing the financial regulator’s headquarters and has ordered staff to halt all supervisory efforts.

Two top officials in the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resigned Tuesday as the Trump administration takes aim the ...

The directors of supervision and enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stepped down, citing the stop work ...

President Trump and other critics of the agency say it needs to be shut down. Supporters of the agency point to its record of ...

On January 31, the CFPB announced Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as the Acting Director. As previously covered by InfoBytes, Bessent sent an ...

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The halt of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's activities leaves CFPB rules targeting junk fees in a state of uncertainty.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday slammed the Trump administration’s reported efforts to shutter the Consumer ...

We previously reported that Treasury Secretary Bessent was named as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection ...

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 ...

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 ...

The edict comes as Russell Vought takes over at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Vought has ordered work to halt at ...