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The agency was created after the 2008 financial meltdown, as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. That law was passed in the wake of the 2007 subprime mortgage ...

Established in the wake of the Great Recession, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a government agency intended to do exactly what its name states: protect consumers financially by ...

Discover how the Homeowners Protection Act helps you cancel unnecessary PMI. Save money by understanding your mortgage insurance rights and equity requirements.

NPR's Tamara Keith speaks with Rohit Chopra, the director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, about a Supreme Court decision that validated how the bureau is funded. We start this hour ...

Over 190 House and Senate Democrats joined a letter vowing to protect CFPB A group of 191 House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of ...

Could your debt be reduced or forgiven? Take our financial relief quiz. Consumer protection laws help keep businesses honest by shielding consumers against companies that operate with unfair, ...

The Supreme Court may decide as soon as Friday whether to tackle a new case that could further constrain the power of US regulators to delve into American businesses and individual lives. In recent ...

Bill Doak and his wife, Linda, were preparing to buy a new house this spring when a mortgage broker made an ominous declaration after scanning their credit report: “Oh my God, you’re in trouble.” The ...