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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A list of upcoming cases published by the high court did not include a challenge to the bureau's constitutionality, but the justices could still decide to review it at a later date.
By Kate BerryOctober 15 -
CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger announced the creation of a task force to research and identify potential conflicts in consumer finance law.
By Kate BerryOctober 11 -
Institutions that offer fewer than 500 open-end lines of credit will get another two-year exemption from reporting requirements under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.
By Kate BerryOctober 10 -
The two Democrats waded into a court battle over the president's ability to fire a director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
By Kate BerryOctober 8 -
The industry had welcomed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plan allowing debt collectors to use electronic communication, but some worry about the effect of a court decision concerning email correspondence.
By Kate BerryOctober 7 -
Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat said that unconscious bias has contributed to inequality in the workplace despite a decades-long effort by many companies to promote women.
By Kate BerryOctober 3 -
By declaring that she has too much statutory power, the agency’s director has potentially opened a floodgate of litigation.
By Kate BerryOctober 1 -
If the court agrees to hear the case, its conservative majority could make it easier for a president to fire a CFPB director, though other outcomes are possible.
By Kate BerrySeptember 23 -
Sandy Pierce wanted to better understand how to help colleagues further their careers, so she came up with four questions that are now used in talent reviews at the $108 billion-asset Huntington.
By Kate BerrySeptember 22 -
There were signs Kathy Kraninger would continue a rollback of consent orders and investigations, but many observers see an aggressive approach reminiscent of the Obama era.
By Kate BerrySeptember 18 -
Linda Lacewell, New York’s superintendent of financial services, said the CFPB's debt collection proposal does not go far enough to protect consumers.
By Kate BerrySeptember 18 -
The agency put to rest speculation that it might take the database offline, yet new disclosure statements are meant to combat the notion that a complaint proves a company’s guilt.
By Kate BerrySeptember 18 -
The agency put to rest speculation that it might take the database offline, yet new disclosure statements are meant to combat the notion that a complaint proves a company’s guilt.
By Kate BerrySeptember 18 -
The agency's director told congressional leaders and staff that she backs a Supreme Court challenge to the bureau's leadership structure.
By Kate BerrySeptember 17 -
The Supreme Court may be closer to examining a key restraint on a president's ability to change CFPB leadership.
By Kate BerrySeptember 12 -
The bureau issued three policies removing the threat of legal liability for approved companies that test new products.
By Kate BerrySeptember 10 -
The event is the bureau's second in a series on consumer protection policy. The first dealt with the agency's authority to penalize firms for unfair, deceptive or abusive acts and practices.
By Kate BerrySeptember 6 -
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Directors Kathy Kraninger is under pressure to ask a federal judge to lift a stay that has kept the agency's short-term-lending rule from going into effect.
By Kate BerrySeptember 3 -
Asset Recovery Associates told borrowers that it could sue them, garnish their wages and place liens against their homes, according to a consent order by the consumer bureau.
By Kate BerryAugust 28 -
The CFPB ordered Texas money transmitter Maxi to pay a $500,000 fine for allegedly deceiving consumers by saying the company is not responsible for errors made by agents.
By Kate BerryAugust 28

















