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24 Apr 2010, 5:01 am by Rebecca Tushnet
But remember that antitrust is separate from the Bureau of Consumer Protection. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 8:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Felix, Director of the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing. [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 9:09 pm by Rich Cassidy
In addition, some ABA state delegations, including my own from the Vermont Bar Association, urged the Congress to amend the Senate version of the Consumer Financial Protection Act (S. 3127) to make clear that most lawyers providing legal services to individuals do not thereby become subject to the general jurisdiction of the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 7:35 am
Federal Trade Commission (regarding consumer protection generally), and certain State Attorneys General. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 7:35 am
Federal Trade Commission (regarding consumer protection generally), and certain State Attorneys General. [read post]
18 Apr 2010, 2:14 pm by Jeff Sovern
  If the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (or Bureau) ends up in the Fed, I hope their offices are a little bit less nice. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 2:13 pm by Adam Thierer
 Financing a team of dedicated local beat reporters, investigative journalists, national desks, foreign bureaus, and all the associated production facilities and support staff is an extremely expensive undertaking.[3] And, for all that trouble and expense, hard news rarely turns a healthy profit. [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 3:06 am by Giovanni Comandé
The argument submitted by the author is therefore that protection of purchasers of financial products should focus of the nature and consequences deriving from liability triggered by reliance on negligent misstatements concerning economic information which induces investors to purchase ‘junk bonds’. [read post]
9 Apr 2010, 6:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Cuomo also established a multimillion dollar national education fund that is dedicated to educating the country's high school students and their families about the financial aid process. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 3:44 pm by admin
The agreement with Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray and OEPA director Chris Korleski, will require A&L Salvage to forfeit more than $4 million in financial-assurance bonds so the money may be used to cap the landfill’s 42-acre disposal area. [read post]
On consumer protection, the bill grants a Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, housed in and funded by the Federal Reserve, broad powers to promulgate and enforce substantive standards for persons engaged in offering or selling a “consumer financial product or service. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 6:13 pm by Adam Thierer
Finally, even if the government creates or subsidizes wonderful, civic- and culturally-enriching content, there’s no way to force people to consume it. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 6:40 pm by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern As we've noted in the past, Senator Dodd's bill subjects the proposed consumer financial protection bureau to a veto by a two-thirds vote of a Financial Stability Oversight Council. [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 7:14 am by Maxwell Kennerly
Here's what Dodd's "reform" entails... ...for consumers: What the bill actually creates is a Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection within the Federal Reserve, a move that has raised great concern among consumer advocates who note, with more accuracy, that the Fed's numerous consumer-protection failures played a large role in the recent crisis. ...for investors: What does a bill attempting to… [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 6:40 am by Jeff Sovern
by Jeff Sovern I have an op-ed in today's New York Daily News on the placement of the consumer financial protection bureau within the Fed. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 2:40 am
Fourth, the bill would create a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), charged with looking out for the interests of less sophisticated clients of financial services firms, which would have its own funding, its own rule-making authority, and its own leader chosen by the President and confirmed by the Senate. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 8:08 pm by constitutional lawblogger
Senator Chris Dodd last week introduced his financial reform bill, including his version of a consumer financial protection agency to regulate the financial services industry and "to protect consumers from abusive financial services practices. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 9:11 am by Brian Wolfman
Recent CLP posts here, here, and here have commented on the fact that Senator Dodd's financial reform bill does not create an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency but rather establishes a consumer protection bureau within the Federal Reserve whose regulations can be vetoed by a board comprised largely of bank and other financial regulators. [read post]
21 Mar 2010, 6:49 pm by Berin Szoka
In a nutshell, Dodd’s bill would transfer the FTC’s consumer financial protection functions to the newly created Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Reserve, but the FTC could also punish violations of the bill’s financial protections on its own under Section 5 of the FTC act. [read post]