When you apply for a loan, you expect the lender to pull your credit report. After all, you’re borrowing money. It makes ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the independent federal agency created after the 2008 financial crisis, has been muzzled, at least temporarily.

The agency protects consumers from being cheated by financial entities. Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, slammed the new House Republicans’ ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a federal agency that, up until a few weeks ago, policed some of the ...

The consumer bureau being defunded by the Trump Administration has dismissed its lawsuit against a Draper-based company selling rent-to-own agreements.

What is a chattel mortgage? A chattel mortgage is a loan used to buy movable property, like manufactured and mobile homes, rather than fixed real estate. They are sometimes referred to interchangeably ...

On Thursday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that aims to limit legal challenges to his administration’s ...

The beneficiaries of a weakened CFPB are clear: big banks, payday lenders, debt collectors, and financial institutions that ...

The Senate request is one of the first signs of scrutiny on Visa after a late January announcement that it had agreed to provide services to X.

The U.S. economy added 151,000 jobs in February, slightly lower than expected but up from the downwardly revised figure of ...