In a decisive first action as the newly appointed acting head of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has moved to temporarily halt the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's work investigating ...

The halt means the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will cease crafting regulations or enforcing any rules or ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has come to a screeching halt under its new acting head, Scott Bessent.

In an email sent from acting director Scott Bessent, employees were told to pause all work related to issuing rules, ...

President Donald Trump designated Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as the bureau’s acting chief, according to a statement ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who took over on Monday as President Donald Trump's new acting consumer finance ...

The secretary replaces Rohit Chopra, who had aggressively sought to expand the bureau’s authority over banks and other ...

In a familiar move, President Donald Trump has designated the current head of another executive agency, this time newly sworn ...

In his first official action as acting director of the CFPB, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ordered staffers to stop ...

The staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was instructed by email to cease much of its work. Bessent, a wealthy ...

Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, has been tapped by President Trump to be acting director of the Consumer Financial ...