The Senate Banking Committee voted Thursday to advance Brian Johnson’s nomination to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, moving President Donald Trump’s pick one step closer to taking charge of the agency that oversees consumer-finance laws...
Seven federal agencies have withdrawn a 2022 interagency statement that encouraged creditors to consider Special Purpose Credit Programs, adding another significant change to a fair-lending framework that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had already revised...
A new CFPB director is named, New York City nuns address the affordable housing shortage, and Alec Baldwin tries once more to sell his Hamptons estate. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of June 8-12. Hit and Miss:...
President Trump has nominated Brian Johnson to become the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Johnson served as deputy director of the CFPB from 2018 to 2020 during the first Trump term. During that time, he served as the CFPB representative...
Rohit Chopra, who served as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) during the Biden administration, has been nominated by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to serve as secretary of the new Business and Consumer Services Agency (BCSA), the state’s...
Pending Home Sales Slide to Nearly Three-Year Low as Buyers Pull Back
