The Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are suing a real estate developer over an alleged bait-and-switch land-sale scheme near Houston. The developer used TikTok and other social media sites to lure Hispanic immigrants into predatory loans, the government alleges.

A Texas judge dealt the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a setback that has changed the bureau's calculus for furthering its near-term agenda. But an ambitious Supreme Court could also call all of the bureau's final rules into question.

Two bank trade groups have asked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to relieve all banks from complying with its small-business lending rule until after the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether the bureau's funding is constitutional.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau celebrates its 12th anniversary on Friday, prompting Director Rohit Chopra to discuss the agency's work including a proposal to set credit card late fees at $8 and the upcoming Supreme Court case that could defund the bureau.

Some pandemic-related gains have been ceded to depositories, national numbers from last year's Home Mortgage Disclosure Act reporting confirm.

The watchdog claims that during internal testing, the company illegally processed $2.3 billion in mortgage payments.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau decided to move forward with its proposal based on feedback to an earlier request for input.

Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee blasted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra as an 'extortionist' and labeled his efforts to rein in discrimination as 'McCarthyism' during a four-hour hearing Wednesday.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra warned that "powerful firms" must not dominate the new open banking landscape.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued only 20 enforcement actions in 2022, but some observers say the enforcement numbers belie the results that director Rohit Chopra is getting from other ways of holding companies accountable.

Prosecutors claim every dollar in subsidy funds from settlements equates to ten times the amount in value in home lending efforts.

During his second day of congressional testimony this week, the Federal Reserve chair faced several questions about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's embattled funding mechanism.

The closely watched case — which goes to the heart of how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau operates — could have a huge impact on consumers, the agency and the many industries it oversees and those it seeks to regulate.

Auto title lender TitleMax was ordered by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to pay a $10 million fine and $5 million in restitution for overcharging servicemembers and altering their personal information to avoid detection.

A core issue in the upcoming fight over late fees involves what data is being collected on card issuers' costs and losses associated with late payments.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's outline for upcoming regulations reflects the efforts of Director Rohit Chopra to reduce credit card late fees and overdraft fees.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the state attorney general claim Credit Acceptance Corp., an indirect auto lender, deceived thousands of borrowers by failing to disclose and include finance charges in calculating the cost of a car loan.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new unit will identify the root causes of recurring violations and find ways to hold companies accountable.

Consumer advocates urged a district court to dismiss a lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, alleging that discrimination is an "unfair," practice under the Dodd-Frank Act.

Many experts think the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding through the Federal Reserve could be the fatal flaw in the Dodd-Frank Act that created the agency, but differentiating the CFPB's structure from others may be tricky.