Kate Berry

A Texas judge dealt the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a setback that has changed the bureau's calculus for furthering its near-term agenda. But an ambitious Supreme Court could also call all of the bureau's final rules into question.

Two bank trade groups have asked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to relieve all banks from complying with its small-business lending rule until after the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether the bureau's funding is constitutional.

A federal judge has temporarily stopped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from implementing its small-business data collection rule until after the Supreme Court rules next year on whether the bureau's funding is constitutional.

Bankers say it isn't a crazy notion for a bank to charge multiple NSF fees on the same transaction because merchants often resubmit transactions for payment a second time, and the bank has no way of knowing if or when that happens.

Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, weighed in on credit card late fees, an upcoming open banking rulemaking and the chaos that could result if the Supreme Court defunds the agency.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau celebrates its 12th anniversary on Friday, prompting Director Rohit Chopra to discuss the agency's work including a proposal to set credit card late fees at $8 and the upcoming Supreme Court case that could defund the bureau.

After graduating from Kalamazoo College, Aidis Suever landed a job at Ally Financial in 2009 and has worked at the $196 billion-asset Detroit bank ever since.

Alli Yttreness started in domestic anti-money laundering oversight at U.S. Bank and moved up quickly to a senior vice president and senior director of financial crimes, fraud and compliance. 

Before joining the $211 billion-asset Cincinnati bank, Jessica Faris had been practicing family law.

Republicans have urged the Supreme Court to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by tying its funding to appropriations. But regulatory experts say that a ruling against the CFPB would threaten the funding of other similarly structured agencies including the Federal Reserve Board, the Farm Credit System and other regulators that are funded through fees or assessments.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered Bank of America to repay $100 million to customers who were charged multiple penalty fees when their accounts did not have enough money to cover payments, as well as those who did not receive the credit card rewards they were promised. The bank was also fined for opening a small number of accounts without customers' authorization.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to wipe out $9 billion a year in consumer costs by cutting credit card late fees to just $8. But consumer complaints about late fees remain low, and experts say that's because many first-time late fees are forgiven.

Banks and credit unions are often at odds, but when it comes to fighting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's proposed $8 late fee cap and changes to interchange fees, they have put their differences aside.

A former employee of The Change Company, which is the largest non-traditional mortgage lender in the U.S., claims in a new lawsuit that the firm mischaracterized the race, ethnicity and income of its borrowers. The company says the allegations, which relate to the representations it makes to be certified as a community development financial institution, are meritless.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued two reports analyzing banking and consumer credit trends in the South, where many rural areas are considered "banking deserts."

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to issue a larger participant rule that would allow the agency to examine consumer payment markets. The rule will allow the CFPB to examine and supervise Big Tech companies such as Apple, Alphabet's Google, PayPal and Square.

Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee blasted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra as an 'extortionist' and labeled his efforts to rein in discrimination as 'McCarthyism' during a four-hour hearing Wednesday.

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, lambasted the Federal Reserve for increasing the dominance of "too big to fail" banks and failing to rein in systemic risk. He asked whether the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a better regulator than the Fed.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra faces tough questions next week testifying before the Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee.

Chatbots may provide inaccurate information, may run afoul of consumer financial protection laws and may force consumers into "repetitive loops of unhelpful jargon," the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned.