New York lawmakers—with full support from the attorney general—are pushing a sweeping expansion of consumer protection laws that could turn routine financial transactions into the next big class ...

Financial services companies may feel relief from the aggressive federal oversight and regulation that defined the past decade. However, regulatory risk has not disappeared—it has shifted. State ...

President Donald Trump’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Russell Vought has taken a mallet to the agency, according to reports over the weekend. The capper seems to be ...

Errors on credit reports. Unexpected bank and other “junk” fees. New financial products that conceal their true costs and terms. For help with those problems, millions of consumers in the U.S. have ...

This past week the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) stopped operations and halted funding to the agency. Born out of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer ...

San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan has expressed concerns about a proposal to create a new county-level consumer protection unit, questioning whether the initiative could duplicate work ...

HIS FIRST MONTHS ON THE JOB. AND I WILL EXERCISE THE DUTIES OF MY OFFICE AFTER TAKING OFFICE LAST JANUARY, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS ATTORNEY GENERAL DAVE DID WAS MOVE THE DESK IN HIS OFFICE SO IT FACES ...