President Donald Trump has chosen Kathy Kraninger, a little-known White House budget aide, as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an administration official said.

Kathy Kraninger, an obscure official at the Office of Management and Budget, is President Trump's leading candidate to become director of CFPB, according to sources.

From a major CFPB deadline to a long-anticipated fintech report, there's a lot to watch for in the days to come.

From a major CFPB deadline to a long-anticipated fintech report, there's a lot to watch for in the days to come.

The new chair of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors argues that state regulators will keep protecting consumers if the CFPB curtails oversight.

Readers respond to a bill designed to modernize the anti-money-laundering rules, applaud the acting head of the CFPB’s decision to fire the members of the bureau’s advisory councils, opine on when a bank ought to communicate it has been hacked and more.

Marc Dann, a former Ohio attorney general, has a plan to publicly maintain the CFPB's consumer complaint database if acting Director Mick Mulvaney shuts it down.

Security Group was fined $5 million for abusive collection tactics; the Dutch payments company is now valued at nearly $16 billion.

The CFPB ordered Security Group Inc. to pay $5 million for making illegal threats, including that consumers could go to jail.

The agency will have to rework its strategy for amending its payday lending rule after a federal court rebuffed efforts to stop the rule from going into effect.

Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney had sided with two industry trade groups that sued the CFPB in April to invalidate the tough restrictions.

Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican lawmaker from California, is among the candidates who have been discussed as President Trump gets closer to naming someone to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to people familiar with the matter.

Almost half of systemically important financial institutions are trading in bear territory; bank is accused of overcharging customers for mortgage-backed securities.

Mick Mulvaney is gutting the consumer watchdog, and it bodes poorly for hardworking Americans.

Groups representing banks, credit unions, the housing industry and others argue in favor of a bill requiring the CFPB to issue timely guidance on its rules.

Though Mick Mulvaney has restarted the agency's data collection process, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Mark Warner said collecting more information was the key to writing better rules.

Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney held a roundtable with credit union leaders from the plains states, including discussions of how the bureau would seek input form CUs now that its advisory boards have been shuttered.

The OCC finds that Wells Fargo was not alone in its sales abuse practices (though it's not naming names); Fifth Third's Tim Spence is our Digital Banker of the Year; the CFPB acting director wipes out the agency's Consumer Advisory Board; and more from this week's most-read stories.

The acting director cited the size of advisory boards and some members’ reticence among reasons for his decision.

Months after a group of Democrats helped propel Dodd-Frank reforms forward, the opposition party’s identity crisis on banking policy is still on full display.