The Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are suing a real estate developer over an alleged bait-and-switch land-sale scheme near Houston. The developer used TikTok and other social media sites to lure Hispanic immigrants into predatory loans, the government alleges.

Rep. Maxine Waters pressed executives from City National Bank, PNC Financial Services and Wells Fargo on opening branches in her California district and upholding promises made from recent merger agreements or consent orders.

While House Republicans and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra normally clash, Republicans offered unusual praise for Chopra's efforts around data privacy for consumers.

Banks already share consumers' transaction data with fintechs, mostly through data aggregators, and often grudgingly through screen scraping. The proposed 1033 regulation could give more control to consumers, better data access to fintechs and a competitive edge to big banks over smaller ones, some observers say.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Justice Department warned banks and other lenders that credit applicants cannot be rejected due to their immigration status.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleged in a lawsuit that the nonbank lender violated a 2019 consent order and submitted incorrect information in 2020.

The high court will hear oral arguments on Oct. 3 on whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding violates the Appropriations clause. A key issue is whether parameters can be placed around Congress' authority over the federal purse strings.

The head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau defended the agency and its mortgage rules in particular on the 15th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

The settlement resolves allegations dating to 2014 and covers 85 minority employees who alleged they were paid lower wages than their white counterparts and faced retaliation.

The government watchdog's original lawsuit was dismissed by a district court on Feb. 3, after the parties engaged in over nine months of discovery. Two months later, the agency challenged the decision.

The watchdog accuses the mortgage shop of providing illegal incentives to real estate brokers and agents, such as cash payments, paid subscription services, and catered parties, in return for purchase business.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to propose rules to require that data brokers comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act to limit data from being sold for any reason other than what Congress has specified as having a "permissible purpose," such as credit underwriting.

A Texas judge dealt the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a setback that has changed the bureau's calculus for furthering its near-term agenda. But an ambitious Supreme Court could also call all of the bureau's final rules into question.

Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, weighed in on credit card late fees, an upcoming open banking rulemaking and the chaos that could result if the Supreme Court defunds the agency.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau celebrates its 12th anniversary on Friday, prompting Director Rohit Chopra to discuss the agency's work including a proposal to set credit card late fees at $8 and the upcoming Supreme Court case that could defund the bureau.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra will engage in informal talks with Didier Reynders, the European Commission's commissioner for justice and consumer protection, on artificial intelligence, buy now/pay later and digital payments.

Some pandemic-related gains have been ceded to depositories, national numbers from last year's Home Mortgage Disclosure Act reporting confirm.

The watchdog claims that during internal testing, the company illegally processed $2.3 billion in mortgage payments.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau decided to move forward with its proposal based on feedback to an earlier request for input.

Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee blasted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra as an 'extortionist' and labeled his efforts to rein in discrimination as 'McCarthyism' during a four-hour hearing Wednesday.