OLYMPIA, Wash. — After a stellar career as a social worker and mental health program manager for the state of Washington, 73-year-old Barb Putnam, of Olympia, has lost the majority of her life savings ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest U.S. government agency to have its work halted by the Trump ...

Unclear how middle class benefits by shuttering agency that provides protection against financial abuse by big banks 4 the Record broadcast6, 2025 ...

The ruling from a federal court in Washington, D.C., is a reprieve for CFPB staff who had been bracing for mass layoffs as early as Friday.

The agency—an unelected regulator with a blank check—has spent much of its short life making things harder for the consumers ...

Lawyers representing the acting director of the CFPB reached an agreement during a court conference Friday to temporarily ...

With a big tech-powered magnifying glass on federal websites, spending contracts, and government payment systems, Elon Musk’s ...

The bureau terminated roughly 70 to 100 term employees Thursday. An amended complaint asserts there's more to come — and that ...

Randell Leach is the CEO of Beneficial State Bank, a regional community bank based in Oakland, CA. He and I conducted via ...

With the CFPB shut down, banks and lenders now face no federal oversight, putting homeowners and consumers at risk of foreclosure, fraud, and debt collection abuse. Petroff Amshen LLP is stepping in ...

What is the CFPB? And what would potentially eliminating it mean for American consumers? MIT's Jon Gruber weighs in.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon scorned calls from some employees to soften the bank's five-day return-to-office policy.