Chris Willis, a co-leader of Troutman Pepper Locke’s Consumer Financial Services Regulatory Practice Group, was quoted in the September 18, 2025 American Banker article, “How the Trump Administration Has Neutralized the CFPB.”

  • “I haven’t seen or heard much in the way of supervisory exams or new enforcement investigations since the administration changed hands in February,” said Chris Willis, a partner at the law firm Troutman Pepper Locke. “Vought has been effective at neutralizing the agency.”