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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a warning to consumers this past week stating that funds held in popular online payment apps, such as Paypal, Cash App, and Venmo, lack FDIC insurance and should be transferred to "insured banks and credit unions." What is the "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau"? Why are they issuing this warning, which could obviously have a serious negative impact on these payment apps if many consumers take their advice and start...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued only 20 enforcement actions in 2022, but some observers say the enforcement numbers belie the results that director Rohit Chopra is getting from other ways of holding companies accountable.

The FDIC encouraged banks to review disclosures and account agreements to make sure that their actual practices are accurately and clearly disclosed but, importantly, even accurately disclosing fees to be charged on APSN transactions will not mitigate the UDAP risk

Barron's magazine and its reporter, Jacob Adelman, have admitted to using the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) public disclosure of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data to identify individual Americans and investigate them.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that payment apps like Venmo, PayPal, and Cash App saw transactions of about $893 billion last year.

After an appeals court sided with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in February, the CFPB and PayPal filed a round of legal arguments in late May to resolve remaining claims from a lawsuit PayPal first filed in 2019.

The ill-conceived proposed rule would increase costs for a significant majority of credit card customers.

With billions of dollars at stake, financial institutions weighed in on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's proposal to cut credit card late fees to $8, claiming, in part, that small banks and credit unions will suffer economic harm if the plan goes into effect as proposed. 

An analysis shows how much money consumers are losing by not comparing offers from different lenders.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleged in 2020 that Citizens failed to investigate certain fraud claims and billing disputes. A key allegation was that the bank required customers to provide a notarized affidavit to support a fraud claim.