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9 Sep 2016, 9:21 am
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) [official website], a federal agency entrusted with consumer protection in the financial sector, announced [press release] on Thursday a $100 million fine against banking giant Wells Fargo [corporate website] for widespread illegal sales practices. [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 3:24 pm
Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) said that he would develop legislation to bring the operating budget of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection under the traditional Congressional appropriations process. [read post]
20 May 2011, 8:29 am
H.R. 1121, the Responsible Consumer Financial Protection Regulations Act, introduced by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) would replace the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection with a five person Commission, similar to the SEC. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 12:58 pm
Some tasks that Elizabeth Warren might grapple with as the head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 11:56 am
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a government agency that helps ensure banks, financial companies, and creditors treat consumers fairly. [read post]
8 Nov 2012, 10:32 am
The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been created to enforce consumer finance regulations, to help create others for our protection, and to take on companies who deceive us with fees and marketing. [read post]
24 May 2012, 9:51 am
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today released a draft rule outlining how it plans to supervise debt collectors, consumer reporting agencies, money services companies and other small nonbanks that engage in “activities that pose risks to consumers. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 10:15 am
Angie Littwin and I will be speaking on a very timely panel about the need for a consumer financial product safety commission Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CoFiPro=Coffee Pro?) [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 10:54 am
(b) Further authority The Bureau, by regulation, may prohibit or impose conditions or limitations on the use of an agreement between a covered person and a consumer for a consumer financial product or service providing for arbitration of any future dispute between the parties, if the Bureau finds that such a prohibition or imposition of conditions or limitations is in the public interest and for the protection of consumers. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 10:54 am
(b) Further authority The Bureau, by regulation, may prohibit or impose conditions or limitations on the use of an agreement between a covered person and a consumer for a consumer financial product or service providing for arbitration of any future dispute between the parties, if the Bureau finds that such a prohibition or imposition of conditions or limitations is in the public interest and for the protection of consumers. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 8:49 am
Two veterans of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have landed senior positions at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and two other lawyers have also assumed top jobs at the new agency. [read post]
31 May 2024, 8:13 am
On May 16, 2024, in a 7-2 opinion authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court held that Congress’s funding mechanism for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “the Bureau”) does not violate the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause. [read post]
19 Mar 2017, 8:50 am
"Justice Department Fires Salvo at Consumer Watchdog; Trump administration backs legal effort to have structure of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau declared unconstitutional": Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal has this report. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 10:23 am
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today announced that it is seeking public input on consumer financial products and services tailored to servicemembers and their families. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 9:58 am
The CFPB’s Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law released its report making recommendations on how to improve consumer protection in the financial marketplace. [read post]
5 Sep 2019, 5:50 am
Nicholas Smyth, Assistant Director of the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, was our guest speaker for a webinar yesterday. [read post]
17 Apr 2011, 8:17 am
In several Massachusetts consumer blog articles, we encouraged her appointment as director of the newly established Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [read post]
17 Aug 2022, 8:19 am
The recent 2022 National Association of Attorneys General Presidential Summit marked a clear partnership between state AGs, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to accomplish Iowa AG Tom Miller’s “fight back” presidential initiative: Consumer Protection 2.0: Tech Threats and Tools. [read post]
17 May 2024, 4:42 pm
“The Supreme Court Just Handed Another Loss to Congress; Legislators have delegated too much of their decision-making to powerful agencies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau”: Law professor Stephen L. [read post]
15 Sep 2010, 3:30 pm
Professor Warren was instrumental in guiding Congress to pass the provisions of the financial overhaul bill regarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [read post]
