Kate Berry has covered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for American Banker since 2016. She joined the publication in 2006 covering mortgage lending and the financial crisis. Berry also has covered big banks including Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. She has won five awards from the Society of American Business Writers and Editors, and has worked at several news organizations including the Orange County Register, the Los Angeles Business Journal and the Associated Press. Berry began her career as a clerk at the New York Times.
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The effort to establish rules governing consumers' access to their financial data has been effectively derailed by litigation, moves made by the Trump-era CFPB and JPMorganChase's decision to start charging data aggregators for access to customer data.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has announced job openings for attorney-advisors to represent the agency in defensive and appellate litigation.
October 10 -
An appeals court upheld a nine-figure default judgment against Nexus Services, Libre by Nexus and three individuals who scammed immigrants held in custody by ICE.
October 9 -
Top Democratic lawmakers are asking the full appeals court to hear a case about the Trump administration's efforts to fire employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
October 8 -
Friedman who became JPMorganChase's top lawyer in 2016, said it's important to separate out what's important from the daily noise swirling around.
October 7 -
Banks are scouring consumer complaints, bank accounts and loan denials to identify people and companies who they may have cut off from banking services amid a new push by the Trump administration to address allegations of political bias in debanking.
October 2 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's union is appealing an appellate panel's ruling that allows acting CFPB Director Russell Vought to fire 90% of the bureau's staff.
September 30 -
The embattled regulator has dropped more than half its Biden-era docket, including cases against Apple and U.S. Bank. But insiders at the bureau say that's just the beginning.
September 24 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received pointed pushback from banks in their public comments on a proposed rule that would slash the number of nonbanks being supervised in four key markets.
September 24 -
Former employees at First Horizon Bank and M&T Bank committed crimes by misappropriating customer data and stealing money from a customer's bank account.
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