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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Federal Trade Commission (FTC) member Rohit Chopra to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), according to two people familiar with ...

Debt collection generates more fraud reports to the FTC than any other industry, according to the agency. But even legitimate ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has announced job openings for attorney-advisors to represent the agency in ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday that Rebecca Kelly Slaughter had been designated the acting chair of the ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is changing course under new leadership, rolling back policies that were ...

Chris Mufarrige, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, speaking at the NAD annual conference in Washington, DC on Sept. 17, 2025. (Photo: Brian O ...

In a related trend, state courts are seeing a spike in debt collection lawsuits. Court filings surged in 2023 and 2024, according to a Sept. 2 report from the Pew Charitable Trusts, based on data from ...

Federal government shuts down after budget impasse• Consumer advocates warn of sweeping risks to housing, food, finance, and ...

The yearning for a king's paternal guidance suffuses the conservative justices' push to affirm the "unitary executive" theory and empower Donald Trump.

The FTC accused Amazon in 2023 of enrolling tens of millions of customers into Prime using “sophisticated subscription traps designed to manipulate consumers into enrolling in Prime” ...