Kate Berry has covered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for American Banker since 2016. She joined the publication in 2006 covering mortgage lending and the financial crisis. Berry also has covered big banks including Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. She has won five awards from the Society of American Business Writers and Editors, and has worked at several news organizations including the Orange County Register, the Los Angeles Business Journal and the Associated Press. Berry began her career as a clerk at the New York Times.
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The industry and GOP lawmakers face short time frames and other challenges in trying to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's arbitration rule.
By Kate BerryJuly 13 -
With the ink barely dry on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's final arbitration rule, defenders and critics of the rule were already girding for a congressional fight over its ultimate fate.
By Kate BerryJuly 10 -
With the ink barely dry on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's final arbitration rule, defenders and critics of the rule were already girding for a congressional fight over its ultimate fate.
By Kate BerryJuly 10 -
Federal Reserve Board Gov. Jerome Powell stopped short of endorsing any single housing finance reform plan, but called on lawmakers to resolve what he described as the biggest unfinished business of the crisis.
By John HeltmanJuly 6 -
The renewed debate on reforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is focused on how small and midsize banks would be affected.
By Kate BerryJuly 5 -
The Main Street GSE Reform Coalition offered three principles: creating a capital buffer for Fannie and Freddie, continuing with reforms by their regulator and ending the conservatorship that began in 2008.
By Kate BerryJune 28 -
Executives at four former credit repair companies agree to pay $2 million for charging consumers millions in illegal advance fees.
By Kate BerryJune 27 -
A federal appeals court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in August in a decade-old case against the San Francisco bank that could cost it hundreds of millions in penalties and restitution.
By Kate BerryJune 26 -
For Democrats, the scandal is a prominent symbol of big-bank misbehavior, while Republicans want to use it to show the shortcomings of the CFPB.
By Kate BerryJune 21 -
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., asked Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Monday to remove 12 Wells Fargo board members because of the fake-accounts scandal.
By Kate BerryJune 19