Effective immediately, Fannie and Freddie will allow mortgage lenders to use VantageScore credit ratings to assess ...

Congress should not have created the CFPB. Multiple federal agencies already existed to enforce consumer protection laws. The ...

A tax and spending package Trump signed July 4 nearly halves the watchdog's annual funding. Resources may be stretched to police consumer financial laws.

Services that split up payments into installments are increasingly popular, especially among young and low-to-middle income ...

Experian launched a new full-scale brand campaign that illustrates the evolution of the company as more than a credit bureau.

The latest changes to hit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau prove corporate interests are paramount.

President Trump's administration is drastically shrinking the size and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, part of a months-long gambit to scale back the financial regulator ...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered an immediate halt to the planned firings of nearly 1,500 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been reduced to a skeleton crew of about 200 employees.

The president of the nonprofit Center for Responsible Lending writes that the gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a boon to scam artists, shady lenders and financial crooks acros… ...

The housing crisis and subsequent financial crisis in 2008 was caused in large part by politicizing loan eligibility criteria, advancing social justice objectives over sound economics ...