richard cordray
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- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is fighting to protect 99 percent of Americans from predatory products and services. Yet the 1 percent of Wall Street elites who are running our government are trying to put the agency out of business. Don't let them; we can't afford to lose the agency that is fighting for us.
- A federal financial oversight agency sued a Maryland-based financial firm on Monday, alleging it created an illegal scheme to deceive victims of lead paint poisoning from collecting court-approved settlements.
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- Sprint and Verizon Wireless will pay $158 million in penalties and refunds to consumers in Maryland and elsewhere under a nationwide settlement over allegations of mobile cramming, Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced Tuesday.
- Maryland will receive about $86 million for principal reduction, the sixth-highest amount, or 4.3 percent of the relief available, according to Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler. There are also 2,461 loans eligible for cash payments, with disbursements expected to be more than $1,000 each.
- A deal to avoid the 'nuclear option' and secure Senate votes for President Barack Obama's nominees is welcome, but the filibuster still needs reform.
- Senate leaders struck a deal Tuesday to avoid a showdown over the use of filibusters, ending a political drama and clearing the way for Marylander Thomas E. Perez to win confirmation as head of the Labor Department.
- Thomas E. Perez, the Marylander nominated by President Barack Obama to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, is set to face a critical vote in the Senate this week that puts his confirmation in the middle of a blistering battle over the use of the filibuster.
- CFPB says it's difficult for consumers to understand and avoid overdraft fees
- Consumer advocates welcomed a federal effort aiming to prevent predatory mortgage lending at a town hall in Baltimore on Thursday, but expressed worries that new rules would not halt discrimination.
- Richard Cordray, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is expected to announce the adoption of a pioneering federal rule Thursday that is intended to prevent a repeat performance of the risky mortgage lending that led to the mid-2000s housing boom and bust.
- Consumer agency CFPB to discuss mortgage policy in Baltimore
- CFPB orders Capital One to return tens of millions of dollars to consumers
- Large credit bureaus to come under CFPB oversight in late September
- 10 universities promise to make financial aid transparent to students
- CFPB takes step to begin regulating prepaid debit cards
- CFPB issues new rule on money transfers
- Fair housing: New consumer watchdog agency means that for the first time in decades, fair housing laws can be effectively enforced
- With President Obama's recess appointment done, it's time to allow the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to do its job
- Open letter to Richard Cordray on consumer issues needing to be addressed
- Jonah Goldberg says the Senate leader, who once railed against recess appointments, supports President Obama in the worst recess appointment of all
- Sen. McConnell's threat to make Obama a 'one-term president' was mean-spirited and lacking in dignity
- The interim appointment of Richard Cordray over GOP objections gives Mr. Obama a chance to stand up for ordinary consumers
- Obama to appoint CFPB director over Senate Republican objections
- Attorney General Douglas Gansler is outraged that Republicans who lost the fight to create a consumer financial protection agency are now blocking the president's outstanding nominee to run it
