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A federal watchdog is suing a tech boot camp, accusing it of loading students up with 'predatory'...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 11 months agoRohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, at Senate committee hearing...
How an Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling Could Benefit Alito Patron
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA billionaire benefactor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has a significant financial stake in...
Buy Now, Pay Later: As Regulators Step In, Should Investors Still Buy Block and Affirm?
Motley Fool· 2 years agoOn Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its hotly anticipated report...
With medical debt burdening millions, a financial regulator steps in to help
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 3 months agoWhen President Barack Obama signed legislation in 2010 to create the Consumer Financial Protection...
Why Delaware must fight for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 8 months ago“The purse & the sword ought never to get into the same hands.” – George Mason, Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 More than 12 years ago, American consumers gained some crucial safeguards ...
Payday lenders aim to evade federal probes as borrowers plead for help
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 7 months agoPowerful financial firms that offer high-cost, short-term loans to poor Americans have blocked at...
Victims of Think Finance loan repayment scam to get $384 million
CBS News via Yahoo Finance· 4 weeks agoConsumers allegedly scammed by Think Finance into repaying loans they did not owe are being refunded...
Fraud and scams cost consumers a record $10 billion in 2023, according to FTC
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo Finance· 4 months agoFraud added up to a more than $10 billion problem for consumers last year, according to the latest...
Buy now, pay later: How to overspend in the holiday moment
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn ivory sequin minidress might be a holiday showstopper. But its $230 price tag will no doubt leave...
It’s hard to reverse scams on peer-to-peer payment apps like Venmo, PayPal, Zelle
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo Finance· 4 months agoConsumers often view their money in the bank as being safe, but they're increasingly losing big...