Chris Willis, a co-leader of Troutman Pepper Locke’s Consumer Financial Services Regulatory Practice Group, was quoted in the September 5, 2025 American Banker article, “CFPB’s Deregulatory Agenda Aims to Rewrite Biden-era Rules.”

  • “Even fully-staffed, the CFPB never had this much on its agenda,” said Christopher Willis, a partner at the law firm Troutman Pepper Locke. “It’s obviously very large in its level of ambition, and when you have the [Trump] administration saying they want to cut the staff by 80% to 90%, doing all of this seems like it would require a lot of people — or take forever.”