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Topic: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector
The CFPB’s Open Banking Mandate Is About to Break Rent
The CFPB’s open banking mandate, the 1033 rule, poses a critical risk to America’s rent payments.
Report: 1033 Error, Rule Not Sound
The CFPB’s open-banking mandate endangers consumers.
The Death Knell for Elizabeth Warren’s CFPB
Trump’s CFPB reset offers hope for reform, but state attorneys general are already building a fragmented and punitive new regulatory regime
A so-called “consumer protection” agency became a case study in regulatory excess and misplaced praise.
Vought Charts New Path for the CFPB
Russell Vought signals a shift toward proportional, efficient regulation after years of CFPB overreach under Rohit Chopra.
The Southwest Public Policy Institute (SPPI) has filed a formal complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regarding the loan-sharking lending practices of former State Representative Tara Jaramillo and her company, Positive Outcomes, Inc. The action follows years of inaction by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and other state agencies, despite overwhelming evidence […]
American Banker: Out of One, Many
As CFPB retreats, the new danger is a jumble of state-level mandates.
Out of One, Many
Why banks, payment networks, merchant servicers, and financial firms will face a harder four years, and what to do about it.
The CFPB’s outdated rule on small-dollar lending punishes working-class Americans by restricting access to the very credit they rely on to make ends meet.
