The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that it has ended its oversight of Google Payment, which also led to Google’s voluntary dismissal of a lawsuit against the regulatory agency. According to the parties’ joint status report, the CFPB renounced an order that initially directed the agency to oversee Google’s payment Read More
The United States House Financial Services Committee approved a bill proposed by the House Republicans to cut funding from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and to dissolve the Public Company Accounting Board into the Securities and Exchange Commission. The legislation received some backlash from Democrats along the way however, the Read More
In a decision released by a Washington D.C. Appeals Panel, the panel issued an order that effectively restored the temporary pause on mass employee firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The order allows CFPB employees remain employed despite President Trump’s plan to remove almost 90 percent of the agency. Read More
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has signaled its intention to reissue a proposed rule on small business lending data collection. This shift comes after the agency had previously defended the original rule against legal challenges while under the Biden administration. This rule—commonly referred to as Small Business Lending Under the Read More
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that it dropped its lawsuit against Zelle, Wells Fargo, and other major banks that alleged the companies of failing to protect consumers from widespread fraud. In its dropped lawsuit, the CFPB claimed that hundreds of thousands of consumers filed fraud complaints to Wells Fargo, Read More
The Senate Banking Committee voted in favor of President Donald Trump’s nomination of Jonathan McKernan to lead the Consumer Financial protection Bureau. The Senate Banking Committee voted 13-11 to advance McKernan’s nomination as Director of the CFPB, moving it to the full Senate for confirmation. McKernan would lead the beleaguered Read More
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that it dropped its lawsuit against Rocket Homes that alleged the company of offering kickbacks to brokers who referred customers to Rocket Mortgage. This lawsuit which was originally initiated under the CFPB’s previous director, Rohit Chopra was dismissed in a one page notice of Read More
Certain members of the House and Senate introduced a bill that aims to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s final rule that required banks with at least $10 billion in assets to cap overdraft fees at $5. The leaders of the proposed legislation argue that the original rule, which aimed Read More
President Donald Trump has terminated the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, and has designated Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, as Acting Director of the CFPB. Chopra was appointed as director during the Biden administration in 2021, committing himself to making the financial system more reasonable Read More
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that it has sued Bank of America, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and the operator of Zelle, Early Warning Services, for failing to protect consumers from widespread fraud. Zelle is America’s most widely available payment network. According to the lawsuit, customers of the three banks have Read More
