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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Purported revisions to House Republicans' Dodd-Frank rollback bill raised immediate questions about the GOP's strategy, since the provisions — which were more extreme than when the bill was unveiled last year — promptly sparked Democratic opposition.
February 9 -
A House plan to provide regulatory relief will be more far-reaching when it is reintroduced soon by rendering the consumer protection agency toothless and providing banks with extra incentives to opt into a deregulatory plan.
February 9 -
Some experts say President Trump is being advised to hold off on firing CFPB Director Richard Cordray to get the Supreme Court to rule on the extent of the president's executive powers.
February 8 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the New York attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a New Jersey law firm and its owner for allegedly luring 9/11 first responders and football players with brain injuries into taking out loans with high interest rates as advances on settlements.
February 7 -
A federal appeals court on Thursday denied efforts by 16 Democratic attorneys general, several consumer groups and two Democratic lawmakers to defend the CFPB in a critical case.
February 2 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday ordered Mastercard and the prepaid debit card company UniRush to pay $13 million in restitution and fines for a service breakdown in October 2015 that left thousands of customers without access to their accounts.
February 1 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hit Prospect Mortgage with a $3.5 million fine for illegally paying kickbacks to two real estate brokers and a mortgage servicer.
January 31 -
Democrats boycotted the Senate Finance Committee's planned vote Tuesday on the nomination of Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin, temporarily preventing it from moving forward.
January 31 -
PHH Corp. is opposing an attempt by Democratic attorneys general in 16 states and the District of Columbia to intervene in an appeals court case that found the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutional.
January 30 -
The CFPB sued the attorneys and law firm that worked with now-bankrupt debt relief firm Morgan Drexen, alleging they continued a scam that charged millions in fees to thousands of consumers seeking debt relief.
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