In a decisive first action as the newly appointed acting head of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), ...

Trump has also given the unelected billionaire control of a Treasury Department unit that carries out 90 percent of all ...

CFPB staff was told to refrain from issuing public communications, halt activities including rules and settlements and ...

Staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed by email to cease much of their work. Bessent, a wealthy ...

World Liberty Financial, a Trump-backed decentralized finance protocol, has transferred the majority of its crypto assets, ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has moved to temporarily halt the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's work investigating ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a consumer watchdog agency formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Elon ...

A Congressional committee is moving to overturn a new rule that caps overdraft fees. On Friday, the House Financial Services ...

Under Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the CFPB was closer to a progressive vigilante shakedown shop than a government regulator.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has halted most of its activity after President Donald Trump named the newly confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ... acting director of the CFPB on ...

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has paused much of its enforcement, litigation and communications activities, ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is halting its operations amid Scott Bessent's takeover, according to reports.