While the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seeks to cap overdraft fees, banks and credit unions are fighting the effort. Nuances that don't fit either side's narrative can get lost in the rhetoric.

Letters hint at more oversight of the banking agencies, as well as the Treasury Department, the CFPB and the Securities and Exchange Commission, under the Republican-controlled Senate.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a final rule that would allow banks to either charge $5 for overdraft fees. Alternatively they can charge a courtesy fee to cover costs, or charge higher fees but send annual percentage rate disclosures to the consumer. Bank trade groups sued the bureau to stop the rule.

The company said the P2P payment service the bureau seeks to supervise presents no risk to consumers because it is no longer offered in the U.S.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said that, although the Google Pay app has been discontinued, the bureau can make the determination based on past behavior, and that the tech giant could decide to reenter the person-to-person payment space.

The Dallas-based bank has a growing list of legal and regulatory issues — some of them connected to its role in a U.S. government benefits program, and others not.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has asked a Texas court to halt Comerica Bank's practices.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has long been a target for conservative ire, but dismantling it would require Congress' cooperation.

"Delete CFPB. There are too many duplicative regulatory agencies," Musk wrote in a post on X. 

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has significantly raised the transaction threshold for its larger participant rule — which defines which firms will be affected — from 5 million annual payments to 50 million.

The fintech's Cash Out product charges the equivalent of 300% interest, the Attorney General alleged.

Banks solved the issue of consumer data sharing years ago. Why is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stepping in now, with a rule that could make sharing data less safe and secure?

Enforcement actions from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau still fresh in the mind of financial leaders have renewed hopes that a second Trump administration will favorably alter the agency's future.

The bureau suggested this week that states should remove the exemptions banks enjoy from data privacy laws. California is a prime candidate to act.

The Dallas-based bank is accusing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of "pursuing an aggressive and overreaching investigation" into its role in a Treasury Department prepaid card program.

President-elect Donald Trump beat banker predictions to surpass Vice President Kamala Harris on his way back to the White House, leaving many surprised but hopeful for a relaxed regulatory environment.

By exempting small banks from compliance with its open banking rule, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is relegating them to the dustbin of history. That cannot be allowed to happen.

The Vienna, Virginia-based credit union will pay tens of millions of dollars in penalties over what the agency said was "junk fees" charged to Navy Federal's customers.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will soon have to defend its interpretive buy now/pay later rule in court following an industry advocacy group lawsuit. Here's what's at stake.

It is nonsensical for the government to sue one of the leading lenders in an underserved minority community as a means of encouraging more lending in that community.