The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a consumer watchdog agency formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Elon ...

The staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was instructed by email to cease much of its work. Bessent, a wealthy ...

But the agency has since been targeted by trade groups who unsuccessfully argued that the CFPB's funding violated the U.S.

In his first official action as acting director of the CFPB, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ordered staffers to stop ...

President Donald Trump designated Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent as Acting Director of the Consumer Financial ...

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau faces uncertainty as acting director, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, halts activities under directives from President Trump. The move follows the ...

Trump administration pauses work of CFPB and names Scott Bessent as acting head - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ...

In a decisive first action as the newly appointed acting head of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), ...

Bessent will divest from hedge fund ... is an alumnus of Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Rep. French Hill. The CFPB’s regulation of overdraft ignores the needs of the 1 in 5 Americans who ...

Bessent has reportedly been part of a group ... era financial rules — a move that is expected to initially target the CFPB’s policies on medical debt and overdraft fees, as Eleanor also ...

Trump has nominated hedge fund manager Scott Bessent to serve as the next Treasury secretary ... Unlike the prudential regulators, the CFPB, led by Director Rohit Chopra, has issued a string of rules ...