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In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the September 2025 webinar. Bite 16: CFPB Publishes "Making Ends Meet" Survey Data On August 20, 2025, the CFPB published ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The lights are on at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau across the street from the White House, and employees still get paid. But, in practice, the bureau has been mostly ...

In December, the Democratic Attorneys General Association, or DAGA, announced that it hired Rohit Chopra to lead its new Consumer Protection and Affordability Working Group. In this role, the ...

Last week I participated in the radio show On Point to discuss the legacy of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It turned out to be something a debate with Richard Cordray, the first director ...

"That's it!" the girl exclaimed. "That's what happened! That's what my family’s big secret was!" In Economics class, my seniors were learning about the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau no longer has an effective cybersecurity program, according to the agency's government watchdog, which found deterioration of the agency's capabilities during ...

For a good while, hardship-loan activity has served as an early indicator of stress. This has been powered by increased consumer financial strain and borrowers with weaker credit side-stepping ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The lights are on at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau across the street from the White House, and employees still get paid. But in practice, the bureau has been mostly ...