For 15 years, I worked in financial regulation and consumer protection, most of that time at the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. My job involved bringing Republican and Democratic state ...

Critic of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau leadership was put under investigation and suspended from job ...

The best consumer protection is consumer choice. When banks, credit unions, and financial technology companies compete for Americans’ business, consumers benefit from better products, lower costs, ...

Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” ...

Why this rule now? The White House was reviewing the anticipated rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as of last week, according to reporting by Bloomberg Law. The rule would help shape ...

WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's outgoing interim consumer finance watchdog, on Wednesday sparred with congressional Democrats over his administration's ...

Let’s begin with some history. In the pre–New Deal United States, financial crashes—brought on by poor bank management or ...

Brian Johnson, President Trump’s pick for director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is testifying Thursday morning before the Senate Banking Committee. Johnson served in various ...

In his latest opinion piece published in The Economist, Gruenberg argues that Trump administration was repeating the mistakes of the past by weakening financial oversight and reducing the workforce of ...

This time won’t be different—except that institutions will be less well placed to limit the damage, reckons Martin Gruenberg ...

Demonstrators rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau headquarters in Washington DC on 10 February 2025.Photograph: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Trump administration ...