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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees — most of whom are on administrative leave — were asked in an email to list what they accomplished last week. National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 335 said workers should list all the tasks they were told not to perform.

DOGE's erratic approach may jeopardize efforts to weaken the agency, anonymous sources warned. The Musk team's unpredictable actions could face legal challenges—potentially paving the way for a resilient CFPB to endure.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is the latest federal banking agency to let go of probationary employees.

The state's insurance commissioner made the change following analysis of title industry profits and expenses in Texas provided by its stakeholders.

Trump's housing policies risk destabilizing multifamily markets by cutting HUD and GSE support, writes the chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday night disbanding of three bank and credit union advisory groups.

Potential policy changes, a growing product niche, new thinking about whether to outsource and technology innovations are transforming the industry.

Calabria left the free-market think tank Cato Institute and is said to be at the Office of Management and Budget, reviewing multiple agencies.

A White House order peeling back agency independence would curtail bank regulation in the near term, but could set the stage for long-term uncertainty and volatility.

Howard Lutnick's influence in housing today is primarily tied to tariffs but his firm also had a storied past in mortgages and was hit hard by the 9/11 attacks.