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/CNW/ - Climate change is having a direct impact on natural disasters, including flooding, increasing the scale, frequency, and unpredictability of these...

Canadians support climate adaptation and want to see action from governments to protect them from the natural disasters they are already experiencing, according

On October 19, in Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a three-judge panel in the Fifth Circuit unanimously found...

/CNW/ - Storms that hit Western Canada this summer are expected to result in over $300 million in insured damage, according to initial estimates from...

Commissioner Kevin Overbay says a major problem is that Medicare and Medicaid coverage from the national level is stripped out for people incarcerated in county jails.

/CNW/ - Communities and governments are working together to prepare for and adapt to impacts of climate change, helping to improve quality of life for...

The FTC settled with the operators of an online stock trading platform over allegations that the operators fraudulently marketed investment-related services that they claimed would enable consumers to make consistent profits and beat the market.

The Treasury Department’s Undersecretary for Domestic Finance, presented the report’s findings and emphasized the need for lawmakers to introduce a legal framework for stablecoins and other novel types of digital assets.

The CFPB contends that junk fees are detrimental to the market for financial services because they obscure the true price of a service by, for example, offering attractive introductory pricing, but then make up the difference by levying various back-end fees on consumers.

The CFPB released a report directed to consumers about obtaining information in their consumer reports and disputing suspected inaccuracies in these reports with companies as needed. The CFPB notes that errors in these databases can severely harm their financial lives.