The new Trump administration has brought deregulation and staff cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, leaving ...

Consumer watchdog groups warned that withdrawing the rule leaves Americans more vulnerable to fraud and identity theft.

The reversal comes as a surprise to many, especially given growing concerns over how personal data is collected and sold in the U.S. With the rise of digital technologies, data brokers have amassed ...

On May 12, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced the withdrawal of various guidance, interpretive ...

Effective May 12, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) formally revoked 67 different guidance documents by publishing a notice in ...

The Trump administration has taken aggressive steps to dismantle the CFPB, initially proposing to shut it down completely. It later suggested the agency could operate with just 10% of its current ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has rescinded 39 guidance documents that had provided insight into the regulator's ...

The agency also yanked proposals that sought to extend consumer protections to the use of new digital payment technologies including cryptocurrency, and that would have prohibited certain terms in the ...

India's smartphone manufacturing gets a boost. HCL and Foxconn are partnering for a semiconductor assembly and test unit. The plant will be in Uttar Pradesh. It will produce display driver chips. This ...