Kate Berry has covered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for American Banker since 2016. She joined the publication in 2006 covering mortgage lending and the financial crisis. Berry also has covered big banks including Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. She has won five awards from the Society of American Business Writers and Editors, and has worked at several news organizations including the Orange County Register, the Los Angeles Business Journal and the Associated Press. Berry began her career as a clerk at the New York Times.
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A federal judge has ordered a staff member of the Department of Government Efficiency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's top lawyer to appear at an evidentiary hearing next week.
April 23 -
A federal judge issued an order blocking the Trump administration from firing hundreds of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees, saying agency leadership had 'thumbed their noses' at the court's earlier injunction.
April 18 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is laying off more than 1,400 employees just days after a panel of judges said the bureau couldn't fire employees without an assessment of whether the workers are unnecessary to perform the bureau's legally mandated duties.
April 17 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Townstone Financial, a Chicago mortgage lender that it sued in 2020, jointly asked a federal court to vacate a settlement, saying the case should never have been filed.
April 16 -
Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russell Vought also directed that future guidance not use the words "shall," "must," "required" or "requirement" to direct parties outside the federal government, except when restating clear legal mandates.
April 14 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it will not enforce or supervise nonbank financial firms that miss upcoming compliance deadlines for the nonbank registry of repeat offenders.
April 11 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had accused the Dallas bank of "deliberately disconnecting 24 million customer service calls" among other "unfair" acts. But the motion to dismiss allows the CFPB to refile the case again.
April 11 -
A federal appeals court panel seemed open to accommodating the Trump administration by putting some conditions on a preliminary injunction that has blocked it from reductions in force at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
April 9 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has chosen to prosecute only a handful of cases as the Trump administration drops other investigations, claiming enforcement is not mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act.
April 7 -
The Department of Justice said in a court filing Friday that a February stop-work order from acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russell Vought did not entail stopping statutorily mandated work by the bureau, defying earlier testimony.
April 4
