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 ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission's controversial complaint database that launched to the public last month is once again being questioned by lawmakers who argue the agency's site may be more ...

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 database was designed to hold financial firms accountable. For example, if someone refinances their house and has a bad experience with a bank, they can go online and file a complaint that is ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has delivered on a promise to mount an online database that gives the public a view of individual-level consumer complaints against credit card companies.

“The database is here to stay,” Kathleen Kraninger, the bureau’s director, said Wednesday at a consumer conference in Rosemont, Ill., outside Chicago.

When a complaint is filed by a consumer, the CFPB alerts financial institutions to the complaint and the company must provide a response to the consumer through the database, usually within 15 days.

What: Database of consumer complaints about harmful or dangerous products submitted to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Where: www.SaferProducts.gov Availability: Beginning March 11, 2011 ...

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 ...

Eight of the 10 companies with the most registered complaints in the CFPB’s consumer complaint database made financial contributions to Mulvaney when he was a House lawmaker, according to a ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s much-maligned consumer complaint database is about to reach 1 million total complaints, CFPB Director Richard Cordray said Tuesday. And, as it turns ...

Eight of the 10 companies with the most registered complaints in the CFPB’s consumer complaint database made financial contributions to Mulvaney when he was a House lawmaker, according to a ...