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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By a 2-1 vote, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the CFPB's union did not have a reviewable claim under the Administrative Procedure Act. The union is expected to appeal to the full D.C. Circuit.
August 15 -
Bank trade groups have asked a federal court to halt enforcement and extend compliance dates for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's open banking rule that was enacted during the Biden administration. The move comes as the lobbying fight over how the rule will be rewritten intensifies.
August 14 -
New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges that Zelle's parent company, Early Warning Services, failed to adopt basic safeguards to combat fraud. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dismissed a similar lawsuit in March without an explanation.
August 13 -
The bank teller, Khalila Cooper, embezzled $34,000 over a six-month period. She has been banned from the banking industry for her "personal dishonesty," the Fed said.
August 12 -
A headline-grabbing 2022 lawsuit alleging racial bias by home appraisers has been quietly dismissed for lack of evidence. At the same time, the Trump administration is rolling back many of the policy changes involving home appraisals that the Biden administration put in place.
August 12 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed reducing supervision of all but the largest nonbanks in four key markets: auto financing, consumer credit reporting, debt collection and international money transfers.
August 8 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office last week criticizing a probe into the bureau's funding request for 2025, insisting that acting CFPB Director Russell Vought has "sole discretion'' to determine funding and staffing levels.
August 4 -
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. withheld bonuses from former FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg and four senior officials, whose names were redacted from the report, as part of "corrective action" for allegations of misconduct.
July 31 -
Bankers are concerned about stablecoins gaining traction due to the passage of the GENIUS Act, and also continue to sound the alarm about the failure to resolve check fraud disputes, according to the latest quarterly survey from IntraFi.
July 30 -
A coalition of consumer groups sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and acting Director Russell Vought for refusing to implement a statutorily mandated small-business data collection rule that is already tied up in litigation.
July 24 -
Complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have skyrocketed in the first half of 2025, due in part to an increase in payment scams generated by social media that target peer-to-peer payment platforms such as Zelle, Venmo and other apps.
July 23 -
The Department of Justice has filed a notice that it will appeal a D.C. District Court ruling that reinstated two democratic members of the National Credit Union Administration who had been fired by President Trump earlier this year.
July 23 -
Supreme Court rulings and provisions in the recently passed budget bill are bolstering the legality of the administration's effort to fire more than 1,000 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
July 16 -
In a surprise settlement, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered the Texas lender to pay a penalty and compensate for overcharging service members on more than 45,000 loans.
July 14 -
A federal judge in Texas dismissed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's medical debt rule and prohibited states from passing their own laws prohibiting medical debt on credit reports.
July 11 -
The union representing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in their suit against mass firings at the agency said the Supreme Court's ruling allowing President Trump to proceed with mass reductions-in-force elsewhere does not impact the union's lawsuit.
July 9 -
A district court judge this week has denied allowing four groups — the American Fintech Council, Financial Data and Technology Association, Financial Health Network and Public Citizen — to file legal briefs in support of a rule on financial data rights.
July 8 -
Navy Federal Credit Union will not pay a $15 million fine or $80 million in restitution to service members who were illegally charged surprise overdraft fees when their accounts had sufficient funds.
July 2 -
The National Credit Union Administration, operating with just one board member, has liquidated two credit unions that were recently put into conservatorship. The failures are the first credit union failures since Democrats on the board were fired, leaving Republican Chair Kyle Hauptman.
July 1 -
The Financial Technology Association — which had been granted the right to defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's open banking rule after the bureau declined to defend it — filed a motion Sunday to preserve the rule.
June 30
