WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the U.S. consumer protection agency that was created under President Obama and congressional Democrats to protect Americans from financial scams. By a ...

Rachel Witkowski is an award-winning journalist whose 20-year career spans a wide range of topics in finance, government regulation and congressional reporting. Ms. Witkowski has spent the last decade ...

Payday loan companies had alleged the way CFPB is funded was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and how Congress decided to fund the agency ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a business-backed challenge that could have scuttled the federal agency set up to protect consumers from shady financial services practices. The ...