The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s interim director Mick Mulvaney recently announced his intent to shut down a public complaint database, but more than a dozen attorneys general urged him ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission approved creation of a database for consumer complaints, ending two years of wrangling with manufacturers and business groups over the project.

But Esses has joined parents, consumer groups and lawmakers to push for an Internet database where consumers could post complaints and search for comments about potentially dangerous products ...

A first-ever public database of consumer product safety complaints, which had been targeted for extinction by Republican lawmakers, emerged unscathed from budget negotiations this week.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Wednesday the controversial public Consumer Complaint Database is here to stay. The CFPB announced that it will continue the publication of ...

Consumers have until Monday to voice their opinion on keeping the CFPB's Consumer Complaint Database public.

Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, says he has not decided how publicly accessible it will remain.

The financial industry and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are on a collision course over proposed changes to a database that would allow consumers to air their grievances in public ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau views the database as a tool to bring consumers and companies together, not to arbitrate their disputes.

The future of the bureau’s complaint database, once called by Mick Mulvaney as a ‘Yelp’ for financial services, remains unclear as leadership changes at the agency loom.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will continue to publish its database of consumer complaints about financial companies, ending — for now — a battle over public access to one of the ...