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CFPB

Consumers won a huge victory in 2010 with the passage of the Wall Street Reform law. The key provision of the bill for consumers is the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which will oversee financial products and services such as mortgages, credit cards, payday loans, check cashing, and private student loans.

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  • Young Americans Deserve Strong Consumer Financial Protections

    Young Americans Deserve a Strong Consumer Bureau to  Protect them from Unfair Financial Practices Too many young Americans have paid the price for an outdated regulatory system that has left our financial system vulnerable to collapse and our families without adequate protections.  In the summer of 2010, Congress passed and President Obama signed the Wall Continue Reading

  • Women Deserve Strong Consumer Financial Protections

    Women Deserve a Strong Consumer Bureau to  Protect them from Unfair Financial Practices Too many women have paid the price for an outdated regulatory system that has left our financial system vulnerable to collapse and our families without adequate protections.  In the summer of 2010, Congress passed and President Obama signed the Wall Street Reform Continue Reading

  • Servicemembers Deserve a Strong Consumer Bureau to Protect them from Unfair Financial Practices

    Servicemembers Deserve a Strong Consumer Bureau to Protect them from Unfair Financial Practices Too many servicemembers have paid the price for an outdated regulatory system that has left our financial system vulnerable to collapse and our families without adequate protections.  In the summer of 2010, Congress passed and President Obama signed the Wall Street Reform Continue Reading

  • Rural Americans Deserve a Strong Consumer Bureau to Protect them from Unfair Financial Practices

    Rural Americans Deserve a Strong Consumer Bureau to  Protect them from Unfair Financial Practices Too many Americans living in rural areas have paid the price for an outdated regulatory system that has left our financial system vulnerable to collapse and our families without adequate protections.  In the summer of 2010, Congress passed and President Obama Continue Reading

  • Older Americans Deserve a Strong Consumer Bureau to Protect them from Unfair Financial Practices

    Older Americans Deserve a Strong Consumer Bureau to Protect them from Unfair Financial Practices Too many older Americans have paid the price for an outdated regulatory system that has left our financial system vulnerable to collapse and our families without adequate protections.  In the summer of 2010, Congress passed and President Obama signed the Wall Continue Reading

  • Latinos Deserve a Strong Consumer Bureau to Protect them from Unfair Financial Practices

    Latinos Deserve a Strong Consumer Bureau to        Protect them from Unfair Financial Practices Too many Latinos have paid the price for an outdated regulatory system that has left our financial system vulnerable to collapse and our families without adequate protections.  In the summer of 2010, Congress passed and President Obama signed the Wall Street Continue Reading

  • African Americans Deserve a Strong Consumer Bureau to Protect them from Unfair Financial Practices

    African Americans Deserve a Strong Consumer Bureau to Protect them from Unfair Financial Practices Too many African Americans have paid the price for an outdated regulatory system that has left our financial system vulnerable to collapse and our families without adequate protections.  In the summer of 2010, Congress passed and President Obama signed the Wall Continue Reading

  • CU comments to the CFPB on which non-banks it should supervise

    Consumers Union,1 the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports®, appreciates the opportunity to comment on this Notice and Request for Comment on how the Bureau should define “larger participants” in markets for other consumer financial products and services. The Bureau’s “larger participant” rule will determine which nondepository covered persons (hereinafter “non-banks”) other than residential mortgage, private Continue Reading

  • CU comments to the OCC on proposed preemption rules for national banks

    In this comment letter, CU tells the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) to amend its proposed rules regarding preemption of State consumer financial protection laws.

    Since 2004, the OCC, which currently oversees national banks, has had broad preemption rules in place that allow national banks to evade stronger State laws that would protect consumers against predatory lending and other abuses. The Dodd-Frank Act overturned these standards and required the OCC to rewrite their rules – but the OCC’s proposed rules do little more than maintain the status quo, essentially ignoring their new responsibilities under Dodd-Frank.

  • Consumer groups call on CFPB to ensure public has easy access to complaints collected by financial watchdog

    Ms. Catherine West Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Washington, D.C. Ms. Zixta Martinez Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Washington, D.C. May 25, 2011 Ms. West and Ms. Martinez: We the undersigned consumer, civil rights, good government, and community groups, and members of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) are writing to express our firm belief that Continue Reading

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