The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday released a new online tool it's testing to help families compare the costs of attending different colleges and universities.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Tuesday that it's considering new rules aimed at mortgage servicers to help protect consumers against "costly surprises."
The new consumer bureau said Wednesday that it plans to target a kind of bank fee that makes customers see red: Overdraft protection penalty fees on checking accounts.
The country's new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking aim at big financial firms and small print, while itself enduring fire inside the Beltway.
A big business group opposed to the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday it won't file suit challenging the bureau's powers -- for now.
Watch the Republican primaries, and you can feel: the American political system is working. The GOP is discarding the unqualified and irresponsible candidates and rapidly converging on the person in the race who could actually do the job of president.
Republicans say President Obama's four agency recess appointments are unconstitutional. Anderson Cooper reports.
President Obama gave a pep talk Friday to the staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- including the new director he controversially appointed this week.
With President Obama's recess appointment of a new chief to run the consumer bureau, the agency can flex new powers regulating financial products from non-banks -- including student loan providers, debt collectors, payday lenders, and mortgage originators and servicers.
In a move that has angered Republicans, President Obama on Wednesday announced he's making a recess appointment of Richard Cordray to be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, sidestepping the Senate confirmation process.
Five months after it opened its doors, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is poised to begin the year without a Senate-confirmed director.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham defended his vote to block confirmation of a director to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by comparing it to something out of the reign of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
The Obama Administration is renewing its push for the Senate to confirm a director to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Figuring out how much college is going to cost you is about to get much easier.
President Obama is pretty much doomed to a director-less Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through next year.
A controversial new government agency has its sight set on a consumer bugaboo: checking overdraft fees.
President Obama's nominee to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau got a hearing on Tuesday, but that may be all he gets.
It's time for Elizabeth Warren to say goodbye to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer agency she spent nearly a year creating.
The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is having a tough time reaching the very people it is aiming to protect -- consumers.
While President Barack Obama battles with Republicans and Democrats over raising the debt ceiling, Americans should be preparing themselves to take on the shady special interests and the members of Congress who carry their water in their effort to scuttle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
President Obama appoints Richard Cordray as Consumer Protection Bureau chief.
Federal regulators on Thursday updated senators on the progress of financial system reforms that went into law a year ago, and they defended against criticisms about the pace at which reforms are being implemented.
A year after Congress enacted the most sweeping changes in financial regulation since the 1930s, Wall Street is still waiting for the full impact.
The credit score you get from an agency might be quite different from the credit score your lender gets, according to a new study released Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
President Obama nominated Richard Cordray on Monday to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency set to launch on Thursday.
Elizabeth Warren faced another round of tough questioning about the consumer financial protection bureau at a House hearing on Thursday, her third trip to Capitol Hill this year.
With a week to go before the new consumer bureau takes off, the White House has yet to appoint its director -- an omission bound to attract criticism when House Republicans grill Elizabeth Warren at a Thursday hearing.
House Democrats are calling on President Obama to appoint Elizabeth Warren to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau during the next Senate recess.
White House adviser Elizabeth Warren's reward for dealing with a cantankerous House committee last week: Another even longer day with many of the same congressmen.
White House adviser Elizabeth Warren returns to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to defend the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against Republicans who want to curb and control the agency's powers.
How do you know if the mortgage you're eyeing is a rip-off? You'll soon be able to find out by looking at the first -- and only -- page of your mortgage disclosure.
A Senate Republican vow to block any nominee to lead the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gives President Obama no choice but to appoint a head of that agency during congressional recess, a top House Democrat said Wednesday.
For the first time in more than three years, consumers say they are happier with their banks.
Elizabeth Warren is not standing down as she fights for her pet project, the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to live on as a fledgling governmental agency.
House Republicans on Wednesday detailed a new barrage of legislative measures they plan to pursue that would dilute, delay and curtail powers of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
House Republicans got their first chance Wednesday to grill White House adviser Elizabeth Warren about the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), taking a first step in a campaign aimed at gutting, curbing or controlling the new agency.
House Republicans calling for smaller government and less spending have a big new target: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Holly Petraeus, the wife of the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, was named Thursday to a key position in the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
CNN's Candy Crowley asks Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) for views on the financial reform bill.
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