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 lawmakers are questioning the agency about its oversight of student loan servicers involved in a federal loan forgiveness program.
April 5 -
The lawmakers are questioning the agency about its oversight of student loan servicers involved in a federal loan forgiveness program.
April 5 -
A discussion on how to modernize policies to combat housing discrimination quickly turned into a sharp critique of the social media giant's advertising practices.
April 2 -
The proposed rollback of underwriting requirements for small-dollar lenders could redefine a legal doctrine that governs rules affecting other companies as well.
March 29 -
Assemblywoman Monique Limon is in the “early stages” of exploring how to create a state-level Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as part of a broader push for more consumer protection for state residents.
March 27 -
Letters to eight bank CEOs from the Idaho senator were a rebuttal to calls by some Democrats for financial institutions to cut ties with firearms manufacturers, prison companies and others.
March 27 -
The bureau had already proposed removing the underwriting portion of the rule, but a judge in Texas has indefinitely delayed the other key component as well.
March 22 -
The changes will expand the role of the Consumer Advisory Board and other panels, but stopped short of reversing the downsizing ordered last year by former acting Director Mick Mulvaney.
March 21 -
The state's financial regulator says Fast Money Loan charged consumers interest rates and fees above the state's usury cap, and operated unlicensed storefronts.
March 19 -
The bank was fined $25 million for what the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said was an inability to provide the discounts to all who were eligible.
March 19
