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CFPB takes first step toward regulating prepaid cards
Prepaid debit cards have been called the Wild West because of their rapid growth, uncontrollable fees and little regulation. That soon may change — or at least the regulation part. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking its first ...Tags: Richard Cordray, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Consumers
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Do credit bureaus have constitutional right to report negative information about customers -- forever?
Interesting case going on in a federal district court in eastern district of Pennsylvania. A woman sued General Information Services, Inc., a credit reporting agency, for reporting dismissed criminal charges against her that were more than seven years...Tags: Civil Laws, Laws
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Consumer agency to review mandatory arbitration in financial services
Finally, a spotlight will be shone on a widespread business practice that forces unhappy customers to settle disputes through binding arbitration — rather than by telling their story in court. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau now is seeking...Tags: Judges, Netherlands, Business, Trials, Vehicles
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CFPB's next target: overdraft practices
Next on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s to-do list: banks’ overdraft practices. Overdrafts occur when you spend more than you have in your bank account. The bank will cover those overdrafts for a fee that can run from $30 to $35....Tags: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Personal Income, Consumers
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GOP's anti-democratic tantrum
"Balanced." "Fair-minded." Showing "great personal integrity." These are some of the terms a bipartisan group of 37 state attorneys general used to describe former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, President Barack Obama's nominee for director of the...Tags: U.S. Senate, Civil Laws, Finance, Richard Shelby, Richard Cordray
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If you resolve to pay off credit cards this year, do it right
Many consumers will resolve to pay off their credit cards for the new year, and their intentions are in the right place. But according to a recent study, how they go about it is likely to be wrong.
Mathematically, consumers are best off eliminating the...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Finance, Finance, Credit and Debt, Personal Finance
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Psssst: CFPB wants to hear from whistleblowers
Hard as Senate Republicans try to prevent the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from fully doing its job, you got to hand it to the agency for doing what it can. The CFPB now says it wants to hear from whistleblowers with information about...Tags: U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Consumers
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Is a new credit card regulation hurting stay-at-home spouses?
An aim of the landmark credit card reform act of 2009 was to protect consumers from getting too deep into debt. One regulation that took effect in October requires that credit card issuers weigh a consumer's "independent ability to pay" — not...Tags: Federal Reserve, Finance, Credit and Debt, Litigation and Regulation, Consumers
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Feds target mortgage modification scams
The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has teamed up with the Treasury Department and — this is a mouthful — the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program — to shutter mortgage modification...Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Mortgages, Companies and Corporations
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A chance to right an old wrong
President Barack Obama's recess appointment to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Richard Cordray, wasted no time in announcing the watchdog agency's "nonbank supervision program." Bringing nonbank mortgage lenders more fully and...Tags: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Finance, Realty, Parties and Movements
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Let Consumer Financial Protection Bureau do its job
Republicans lament the action taken by our president to make a recess appointment — finally — to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a valuable government agency. I do not know the likely outcome of any challenge to this action,...Tags: Richard Cordray, Consumers, Republican Party
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The imperial hypocrisy of Harry Reid
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a man whose political success is largely attributable to the aura of befuddled incompetence he uses to disarm his adversaries, was a failed Watergate baby.
In 1974, a slew of often sanctimonious and very liberal...Tags: U.S. Senate, Harry Reid, Executive Branch, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democratic Party
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