Debt collectors must provide proof that a debt is valid. Otherwise, they have to stop their collection efforts.

With President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory and upcoming inauguration, big changes appear likely for the Consumer Financial Protection ...

It’s long been an open secret that employers often review the consumer reports of job candidates when conducting background ...

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway on Monday, accusing it of ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's last-minute actions are expected to annoy the incoming Trump administration, which ...

In December, the Biden administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a rule to curb checking account ...

Californians who try to withdraw money but don’t have enough in their bank accounts won’t fall deeper into a financial hole ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently announced that it will be sending out refunds to the 4.3 million victims of ...

Marianne Lake, CEO of consumer and community banking at JPMorgan Chase, worries most about an uneven playing field, where “as ...

The root of the CFPB’s ineffectiveness is that it believes regulation is the way to fix the banking industry’s problems. To ...

“Rather than being a sign of broader distress, this increase in delinquencies is explained by a substantial increase in the ...

Starting Jan. 1, a new state law will prohibit health providers and debt collectors from reporting medical debt information to credit agencies. That means unpaid medical bills should no longer show up ...