Mick Mulvaney

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.