In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to debt collection practices. Like 2023, the theme of 2024 was ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) requested and was granted a 90-day stay in the litigation involving ...

The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau risk leaving Americans’ nearly $18 ...

Richard Cordray, the first director of the CFPB, told BI that Elon Musk's call to dismantle the agency is a 'direct conflict ...

If you're behind on debt payments, your lender might send you to collections. And while the harassing phone calls and ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to safeguard ...

Because of a recent proposed settlement with the CFPB, some private student loan borrowers may see a stop to collections ...

Borrowers holding private student loans managed by the National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts (NCSLT) may soon receive a ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for a halt on most of the CFPB's work. It could impact rules on overdraft fees, ...

The CFPB has proposed a $2.25 million compensation for borrowers against the National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts for ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been kneecapped in the latest attack on a government institution by the Trump administration. The federal agency has helped curtail burdensome bank ...

The fate of a Biden-era rule that would keep medical debt from consumers’ credit reports is up in the air amid reported ...