Mick Mulvaney

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Not a penny of the $1 billion fine against Wells Fargo will end up in the hands of customers harmed by practices flagged by regulators.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is asking the CFPB’s top ethics official if the agency has taken steps to ensure its acting director, Mick Mulvaney, is excluded from matters involving banks and other firms that contributed to his campaign when he was a congressman.

Readers weigh in on the action at Wells Fargo’s annual meeting, debate the idea of changing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s name, chime in on a postal banking proposal and more.

The details about political donations to over a dozen lawmakers raise fresh questions about the payday lending sector's influence in Washington.

Critics of the acting CFPB director have a new line of attack as he takes fire for remarks made at an industry conference earlier this week.

If President Trump doesn't name a director before the midterm elections, he could lose his best shot at reshaping the bureau long term.

The acting director’s effort to rename the agency is about more than rearranging a few words.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is asking acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney to clarify his philosophy on enforcement, provide details on the high pay for political appointees and answer other questions.

Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney announced a trio of significant changes to the CFPB.

The agency's acting chief said hundreds of data breaches justified a halt on collecting information from firms, but experts question that logic.

If President Trump doesn't name a director before the midterm elections, he could lose his best shot at reshaping the bureau long term.

Readers weigh in on the use of blockchain in property records, Mulvaney's efforts heading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the need for financial standards in banking and more.

Regulators should revise existing rules to encourage banks to offer short-term loans to customers who run into financial emergencies.

Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney took heat from Democrats on whether he planned to take the agency's consumer complaint portal private while responding to Republican fears that its data collection activities pose a data security risk.

Opting out of doing business with the firearms industry is "troubling" behavior from banking institutions, said Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, during a hearing on Thursday.

A panel of judges remained skeptical of claims by Leandra English, deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, that she is the rightful head of the agency. But they didn’t sound convinced that current acting Director Mick Mulvaney is, either.

In his first of two Capitol Hill hearings this week, Democrats hammered the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for ignoring what they view as the agency's core purpose.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday asked for public input on the way it receives and processes complaints from consumers in what the agency said was a preliminary step toward making improvements.

The acting director wants to gut the agency, which would harm both consumers and entrepreneurs.