The Department of Labor fiduciary rule had raised the legal bar for brokers, insurance agents, financial advisors and others who advised investors to roll over assets from a 401(k) plan to an ...

It was one of the most popular consumer protection rules — and also one of the shortest surviving. The "Click to Cancel" rule was finalized by the Federal Trade Commission to great acclaim on October ...

Q: Over the past decade or so, the DOT has adopted a series of consumer-protection regulations, such as the full-price rule, the codeshare rule and, most recently, the rule requiring automatic refunds ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) may rescind proposed rules treating Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services like credit cards, citing resource constraints and other regulatory priorities.

In the waning months of the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, released a flurry of new consumer protection rules, targeting everything from bank overdraft fees ...

Q: In your July 21 column, "The fate of consumer-protection rules," you wrote, "It will be a year until the president's immediate-repeal directive can take effect, and it will probably be another year ...

The Trump administration is rolling back two major Biden-era consumer protection efforts: one affecting air travel and the other impacting millions of American workers. Labor Economist Aaron Sojourner ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Department said on Monday that it will not enforce key provisions of a rule issued in December by former President Joe Biden's administration that ...