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• in Politics
  Senate Reps and Dems Butt Heads Over Procedure, with Consumers’ Protection at Stake
  GOP senators began another round in the legislative showboating that is the Senate confirmation of presidential appointees.
  by nerdwallet / on May 11, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “cfpb”

 

• Democracy on trial in the Senate

  
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  Republicans seek to obstruct Obama executive, judicial nominees Nan Aron By Nan Aron President,  Alliance for Justice             With battles ahead over President Obama’s choices for Secretary of Labor, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Consumer Financial Protection ...
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• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Now Accepting Consumer Complaints

  
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  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CFPB) is now accepting complaints from consumer as part of their effort to monitor and improve consumer protection throughout the United States.  Complaints in the following areas are now being accepted: Bank Accounts / Bank Services Credit Cards Credit Reporting Money ...
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• Payday Loans in the Line of Fire: CFPB

  
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  It promised to crack down on the expensive payday loans and the companies that provide those types of services. It now appears the Consumer Financial Protection is doing just that very thing. The post Payday Loans in the Line of Fire: CFPB appeared first on MarketProSecure.com .
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• $32 Billion Overdraft Fees Paid to Banks in 2012

  
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  If theres ever been a reason for consumers to consider prepaid debit cards, the $32 billion in overdraft fees that were paid to the nations biggest banks last year is the perfect justification. Is it time for you to bail on your big bank? The " $32 Billion Overdraft Fees Paid to Banks in 2012 " is a post taken from: ...
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• Payday Lenders CFPB guidance

  
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  Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Payday and Deposit Advance Loan White Paper Gives Glimpse into Future Regulations As part of its ongoing efforts to increase and expand its supervisory role over payday and deposit advance loans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the CFPB) issued a White Paper on April 24, ...
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• Mortgage Giants to Limit Loan Purchases to ‘Qualified Mortgages’

  
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  Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will begin next year to  purchase only loans that meet new “qualified mortgage” requirements, the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced Monday. In January, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized new rules that would … Related posts: Interest-only ...
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• CFPB Makes First Criminal Referral Against Debt Settlement Company

  
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  Considering the broad scope of the CFPB, it is telling, indeed, that its first criminal referral is against a debt settlement company. The post CFPB Makes First Criminal Referral Against Debt Settlement Company appeared first on Creditinfocenter Blog .
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• CFPB Releases Final Rules for Mortgage Industry

  
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  There have been far more regulations released for the lending industry in the last few years than ever before, and that trend continued over the last week, with the federal consumer finance watchdog agency releasing three more rule summaries for laws related to the issuing  mortgages . The Consumer Financial ...
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• The Supreme Court and the CFPB: A test of executive power

  
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  The Department of Justice is asking the Supreme Court to decide a case that will have important ramifications for the validity of CFPB rules. On April 26, 2013, the Department of Justice filed a petition asking the United States Supreme Court to decide whether President Obama’s recess appointment of three members ...
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• CFPB’s First Criminal Referral Leads To U.S. Indicting Debt-Repair Firm For Defrauding 1,200

  
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  ( frankieleon ) In the first criminal referral from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the U.S. is coming out swinging against a debt-settlement company in a new indictment. The firm has been charged with defrauding more than 1,200 people struggling with credit-card debt, with prosecutors saying the ...
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• CFPB Examining Auto Lending Add-Ons

  
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  Millions of Americans have auto  loans  in their names and these products have been some of the most popular types of credit issued since the end of the recession, but it seems that some lenders issuing them may have been conducting some questionable practices as well. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ...
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• A New Approach To Compliance

  
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  Steve Van Beek, NAFCUs Director of Regulatory Compliance, has a dynamite article in the latest issue of The Federal Credit Union, that community banks, as well as credit unions, would do well to heed. In addition to noting the obvious fact that Dodd-Franks increase of regulations means increased compliance burdens ...
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• CFPB Is Collecting More of Your Data

  
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  As part of its large-scale effort to better protect consumers from deceptive and misleading practices from a wide variety of bank and nonbank financial institutions, the federal watchdog agency tasked with regulating the industry has been collecting a massive amount of data in recent months. The Consumer Financial ...
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• Community Bank Consolidation: Over-Hyped?

  
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  Ive been traveling on business this week and have missed posting the past couple of days, but I couldnt let the week end without commenting on a story in yesterdays American Banker , the tone, and much of the substance, of which, was that bank merger activity is stagnant and is not likely to improve in the near term. ...
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• 7 Epic Congressional Fails

  
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  click for comic Whoops! I forgot to post this on Monday. The nice weather is making me dumb. Besides a critique of those ever-present listicles, this is a hodgepodge of news I missed while Boston was engrossed in Marathon madness. Austerity is bunk, and its biggest advocates, Reinhart and Rogoff, are being pretty ...
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• CFPB Finds that Payday Loans Trap Consumers in Debt

  
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  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently issued a report on payday loans and deposit advance loans, finding that these financial services products “lead to a cycle of indebtedness.” No surprise there. Consumers often take payday loans as a way to bridge the gap, perhaps in order to pay for things like ...
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• HAMP Re-defaults Alarmingly High

  
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  It was designed to keep homeowners who were at or near the foreclosure level in their homes. Instead, President Obamas "cure-all", now in its fourth year, is failing miserably. The mortgage modification program, Making Home Affordable, or HAMP, was supposed to permanently reduce payment plans so that homeowners ...
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• “Enough is enough”

  
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  At least one Supreme Court Justice is ready to stop deferring to agencies The CFPB, OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve have broad authority to issue and interpret rules covering financial institutions. Courts have generally given agencies a great deal of deference when an agency explains the meaning of its own rules. In ...
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• TX Congressman Jeb Hensarling Needs to Go – NOW

  
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  It’s no secret the way politics really work in this country. There are those tell-tale signs that show even the most removed soul where the priorities are. Right or wrong, it’s what drives this country we call home. In recent years, though, there have been decisions, actions and changes that have left many simply ...
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• CFPB Clarifies Ability-to-Repay Mortgage Rule

  
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  Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFBP) issued several clarifications to its mortgage servicing rules.  The proposal concerns CFPB’s Ability-to-Repay rule , among other clarifications the bureau makes clear.  The Ability-to-Repay rule specifies that a consumer’s debt-to-income (DTI) ratio ...
  3 weeks ago

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