The acronym UDAAP refers to unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices by those who offer financial products or services to consumers.

While Ari Cabot-Booras was a young soldier serving his country in Iraq, his auto lender was busy ripping him off. The company misled him about the cost of the loan, which was loaded with junk fees and ...

Established in the wake of the Great Recession, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a government agency intended to do exactly what its name states: protect consumers financially by ...

The remnants of a federal consumer protection watchdog has asked the court to vacate its own regulation barring medical debt from credit scores. In a joint motion, the Consumer Financial Protection ...

Killing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is an ill-advised move. — -- Just beyond the Trump swelter of the hour, lawmakers have been busy concocting plans to dismantle key achievements of ...

If you’ve ever felt scammed by a mortgage company, auto lender, credit reporting agency or other financial institution, you might have turned to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for help. In ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Navy Federal Credit Union will no longer have to refund $80 million to servicemen and women for illegally charging them overdraft fees on their accounts, after the Consumer Financial ...

This marks one of the first major policy positions taken by the new director. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Wednesday took the first steps to roll back regulations on payday lenders by ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was one of the early targets of the Trump administration's attempts to dramatically reduce government spending. The bureau's work was first suspended in early ...