The CFPB: How It Impacts Your Bank

Created by the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) represented a seismic shift in federal regulation of the financial sector, an entirely new federal agency created just to protect consumers dealing with financial products. Coming along in the wake of the financial crisis, the CFPB’s mission was to provide a level of protection for individuals in the marketplace that critics felt was missing. The primary banking regulators, sometimes known as prudential regulators, such as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Reserve, focus on the...