Topic: Consumer Financial Protection Agency
The Harvard law professor, who is coordinating the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, sets her sights on simplified forms for credit cards and mortgages.The Harvard law professor, who is coordinating the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, sets her ...
The proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, or CFPA, will be mixed. Prior to having the CFPA, he would be burdended with so much paperwork that it makes doing your personal income taxes look easy. Now though, because the CFPA has mandated such ...
Congress passed the final version of financial reform legislation on July 15, and President Barack Obama will sign the bill within days. The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a significantly scaled-down version of President Barack Obama's initial proposal. The design of ...
As written, the new financial regulatory framework will do relatively little to reduce systemic risk or cut industry profits, Oxford Analytica argues in this guest post.. Congress passed the final version of financial reform legislation on July 15, and President Barack Obama ...
The Senate approved a massive financial reform program yesterday. You can expect a few changes related to bank accounts: FDIC insurance was permanently raised to $250,000 per depositor, and the increased limit will be retroactive to 2008 Retailers can set dollar limits ...
Other industries that escaped the scrutiny of the consumer financial protection bureauAuto dealers and community banks are central to consumer finance. Millions of Americans will be affected because they escaped oversight by the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.But they're not the only ...
I find it really depressing and exhausting to follow this bill through to the end. The vote that got an auto dealer exemption into the House Bill features, with video, at the beginning of Ryan Grim and Arthur Delaney's The Cash Committee, ...
On July 21, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank bank reform bill. The bill sets up a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to be under the Federal Reserve. The bill includes a clearinghouse measure, which allows the SEC to recommend ways to revamp the ...
The Federal Reserve Board this week posted a new Web page providing succinct information for consumers on what gift-card issuers can and can't do. The Fed's defenders, and those who fear the creation of an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency, argue that ...
Tim Fernholz writes about the Department of Defense working towards building a Consumer Financial Protection Agency with Treasury (my bold): Representative Geoff Davis (R-KY) proposed most of the reforms in his Military Personnel Financial Services Protection Act and Representative Sam Graves (R ...
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