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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

How much protection for consumers?

by Ryan Kailath
Apr 11, 2018
Mick Mulvaney is set to testify before Congress on April 11 about how he’s managing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It might be hard to tell, but, the CFPB still there. Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 
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Mick Mulvaney doesn’t think the CFPB needs more money

by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry
Jan 18, 2018
The acting director requested $0 for the bureau’s funding.
Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's pick for acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, walks back to the White House from the CFPB building after he showed up for his first day of work on November 27, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Trump has "no authority" to appoint interim CFPB boss

by David Brancaccio
Nov 28, 2017
The Massachusetts senator who helped set up the bureau says the president has "created a cloud" over it.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during a Democratic Policy and Communications Committee hearing in the Capitol building on July 19, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
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How much could a new leader reshape the CFPB?

by Tracey Samuelson
Nov 27, 2017
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created in the wake of the financial crisis, is locked in a leadership struggle after its first director stepped down last week.
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's pick for acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, walks back to the White House from the CFPB building after he showed up for his first day of work today in Washington, D.C.
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The lawyer representing the CFPB lawsuit explains why he's fighting for this case

by David Brancaccio
Nov 27, 2017
President Donald Trump and the outgoing director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have each chosen different leaders to oversee the watchdog agency. So Leandra English, the current head's pick, has filed a lawsuit.
Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's pick for acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, walks back to the White House from the CFPB building after he showed up for his first day of work on November 27, 2017 in Washington, D.C. 
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Suit seeks to stop Trump from naming acting director of CFPB

by Marketplace Contributor
Nov 27, 2017
Leandra English, who was named interim director of the CFPB by its outgoing director, filed a lawsuit Sunday night.
President Donald Trump arrives for a meeting with House Republicans at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 16.
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Head of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will step down

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Nov 15, 2017
Richard Cordray announced today that he’s leaving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by the end of the month. President Donald Trump will get to appoint Cordray’s successor, giving him yet another way to reshape U.S. financial regulation. We take a look…
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Senate GOP votes to repeal consumer rule

by Marketplace Contributor
Oct 25, 2017
The rule that would have allowed consumers to join together to sue their bank or credit card company to resolve financial disputes.
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How GOP will target Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

by Marielle Segarra
Nov 21, 2016
The consumer agency has been a long-time foe of the party and of banks.
Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Richard Cordray waits for the beginning of a hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee earlier this year on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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Wells Fargo to pay $185 million following false accounts scandal

by Lewis Wallace
Sep 9, 2016
Some bank employees, under quota pressure, opened accounts in customers’ names without their permission.
The fine is the largest penalty in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's history.
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