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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In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra said he has no plans to resign ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, suggesting he will wait to be fired instead.
December 11 -
Americans for Financial Reform wants investigations into the directors and executives of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank released before the Jan. 20 inauguration.
December 9 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may face an existential threat if former President Trump is reelected, while the agency could be emboldened if Vice President Harris wins.
October 28 -
California's Department of Financial Protection and Innovation is requiring registration by mid-February of debt settlement firms, earned wage access providers, private secondary education financing and student debt relief services.
October 24 -
JPMorgan Chase and bank trade groups criticized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's open banking rule for not providing enough data security.
October 22 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau expanded the scope of the 1033 rule to include payment apps, provides for some secondary uses of data, and extends the timeline for compliance.
October 22 -
The Federal Housing Finance Agency issued a proposed rule for the Federal Home Loan Bank System that allows the FHFA director to set "reasonable" board compensation.
October 21 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's nonbank registry to address repeat corporate offenders goes live this week, but some experts have raised concerns about redundancy and costs for nonbanks.
October 16 -
Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said his tenure at the agency could be characterized as simply reading statutes rather than finding novel ways to enforce regulations.
October 16 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Department of Justice issued a consent order against Wisconsin-based nonbank mortgage originator Fairway Independent Mortgage over redlining allegations. Fairway is the country's fifth-largest mortgage originator by volume.
October 15
