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5 May 2011, 6:49 pm
In a letter to President Obama, Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Banking Committee Ranking Member Richard Shelby said that they would not consider confirming any person to be Director for the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection until until the structure of the organization is changed. [read post]
5 May 2011, 9:30 am
This morning, the Diane Rehm show on NPR hosted a roundtable discussion on "The Future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau," featuring Travis Plunkett of the Consumer Federation of America; Maya Jackson Randall, a financial reporter for Dow Jones Newswires; and Mark Calabria, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute. [read post]
5 May 2011, 5:00 am
Over at the Baseline Scenario, Simon Johnson was kind enough to mention The Hellhound of Wall Street in his call for President Obama to nominate Elizabeth Warren for the top spot at the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [read post]
4 May 2011, 3:17 pm
This is where Elizabeth Warren, head of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, comes in. [read post]
4 May 2011, 1:58 pm
Concepcion (waiver of class actions in arbitrations) Attempts to bust up public employee unions (and attacks on unions in general, such as the failure of Card Check legislation) Citizens United (corporate speech rights) Attempts to retain the current corrupt swipe fee system (failure of antitrust) Attacks on public health insurance (prohibition on Medicare bargaining over prescription drug prices and the death of the public option) Attempts to first kill off and now to maim the Consumer… [read post]
4 May 2011, 8:06 am
Starting on Wednesday, the committee’s majority is expected to pass bills to cripple the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, one of the most important innovations in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law. [read post]
4 May 2011, 7:26 am
Following up on our earlier post on today's House votes on legislation that would undermine the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, today's Washington Post has this story on the topic. [read post]
4 May 2011, 5:11 am
In a letter to the House Financial Services Committee, the American Bankers Association expressed support for H.R. 1121, the Responsible Consumer Financial Protection Regulations Act, introduced by Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) that would replace the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection with a five person Commission. [read post]
4 May 2011, 4:00 am
The House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit is scheduled to consider a number of bills today that would gut the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [read post]
3 May 2011, 1:26 pm
Now, word comes via our friends at the CL&P Blog that the American Bankers Association is backing her candidacy to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [read post]
3 May 2011, 1:03 pm
Breaking news from the American Banker: Frank Keating, the head of the American Bankers Association, said Tuesday he would back Elizabeth Warren as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, if nominated by the president. [read post]
3 May 2011, 12:23 pm
On the Daily Show last week, before the big news from Pakistan sucked up all the media oxygen, Elizabeth Warren told Jon Stewart that opponents of financial reform were attempting to “stick a knife in the ribs” of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [read post]
2 May 2011, 6:17 am
… Another path could be rules put forward by the new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [read post]
2 May 2011, 5:00 am
Joe Consumer of The Pop Tort takes solace that the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a statutory mandate to study the use of arbitration clauses in consumer financial contracts. [read post]
30 Apr 2011, 1:49 pm
Many commentators have worried that consumer prot [read post]
30 Apr 2011, 1:49 pm
wave of standardized insurance policies.Many commentators have worried that consumer protection has been a neglected goal of bank and insurance regulators, whose prima [read post]
30 Apr 2011, 6:25 am
The new Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has announced that it will begin testing a new standard mortgage foreclosure form beginning in May. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 8:28 am
Sony will likely face staggering legal bills, not to mention that they will likely want to start placating consumers financially, even before the suit is settled or tried (Clark). [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 7:47 am
While many agencies has consumer protection responsibilities, until now there has never been a single agency that has concentrated solely on consumer financial protection. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 9:01 am
Daniel Fischer for Forbes wrote this: Contained within the sprawling law regulating the financial industry is Section 1028 ordering the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to study such arbitration agreements with an eye toward banning provisions it deems "anti-consumer. [read post]
