What Is the CFPB’s Role in Protecting Consumers?
By Gideon Weissman, U.S. PIRG The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis with one mission: to protect consumers in the financial marketplace. Consumers face a wide variety of complex problems, along with tricks and traps, when dealing with financial companies like banks, mortgage companies, consumer lenders […]