By Aaron Nicodemus2022-10-25T12:30:00
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created by the Dodd-Frank Act with provisions to shield its director and funding mechanism against political headwinds, has found those safeguards to be ineffective against unsympathetic courts.
Under Dodd-Frank, the CFPB was structured to be funded through the Federal Reserve, not Congress. Agency executive directors were appointed to five-year terms, in part to prevent them from being targeted for dismissal when the presidency changed hands.
On Oct. 19, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans found the CFPB’s funding mechanism to be unconstitutional. That decision favored a payday lender, but it could affect all lawsuits filed against the CFPB in the Fifth Circuit, legal experts said.
2022-12-20T18:44:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Wells Fargo will pay a total of $3.7 billion to address “widespread mismanagement” of auto loans, mortgages, and deposit accounts as part of a settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
2022-12-13T14:59:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule that would require certain nonbank financial firms to register consumer protection orders filed against them by other federal agencies, courts, or states into a new, publicly accessible registry.
2022-10-28T20:25:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau initiated rulemaking that would require banks and other financial institutions to make a consumer’s personal financial data available to them upon request.
2025-10-08T20:08:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Private companies that are keen to trade their shares but do not wish to become listed have gained another way to trade their shares. The U.K. government completed its initial review and published rules for the system in June.
2025-10-03T21:24:00Z By Adrianne Appel
While the Trump administration may have shifted away from pursuing small, white-collar, financial crimes, its focus on health care fraud cases is as hot as ever.
2025-10-01T21:10:00Z By Neil Hodge
The U.K’.s financial regulator has given a strong indication that financial firms’ use of unauthorized devices and apps is under scrutiny and that policies around off-channel communications need to be tightened up.
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