Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010

Ford School dean Michael Barr is President Joe Biden’s intended nominee for vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve, the White House announced Friday. Barr is the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Ford School, the Frank Murphy Collegiate...

The Center on Finance, Law and Policy co-hosted a day-long conference with the Brookings Institution on June 30 to mark the Dodd-Frank Act 10th Anniversary. Former Senator Chris Dodd and former Representative Barney Frank participated, as did...

Political and policy leaders will examine the impact one decade later of the Dodd-Frank Act, the legislation that aimed to reform Wall Street and protect consumers in the wake of the Great Recession. The Federal Reserve’s latest stress tests, one of...

The fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is currently at the discretion of the Supreme Court. Hearing the case and a subsequent ruling would have big ramifications for consumers (i.e. all Americans), and likely on Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s...

Only 10 years out of the Great Recession in which hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their jobs, homes, and savings, the Trump Administration’s deregulatory stance sounds alarms for many in the finance sector. Among the concerned is Michael...

In a Fortune op-ed, “How the CFPB fight is a sign of the next financial crisis,” Michael Barr and Joe Valenti (director of consumer finance at the Center for American Progress) describe how the current legal battle over who is the rightful director...