At the latest hearing focused on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, things got heated even before Director Rohit Chopra uttered a word. At the Wednesday...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) undertook enforcement actions around automobile purchasing and financing, payday lending, and credit repair and debt relief in 2022. The agency highlighted...
America’s consumer protection watchdog says it’s monitoring the banking sector’s use of AI-powered chatbots. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said Tuesday (June 6) that...
Banks’ and FinTechs’ pursuit of collaboration in recent years is an especially positive development, given that United States regulation around open banking likely will make...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has advised consumers to transfer money stored on payment apps to insured banks and credit unions. “Your money is at greater...
Overdraft fees have been a hot button issue in financial services. But they’re less of a revenue source for banks — significantly less — than...
OneMain Financial, a nonbank personal loan installment lender, has been slapped with $20 million in redress and penalties by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)...
America’s consumer watchdog is among the many organizations beefing up its artificial intelligence (AI) safeguards. In an interview with The Associated Press on Friday (May 26),...
From Australia, the land that invented buy now, pay later (BNPL) as we now know it, comes news this week that laws are changing to...