December 21, 2018 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 1700 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20552 Request for Information Regarding Bureau Data Collections Docket ID CFPB-2018-0031 To whom it may concern: This letter is in response to the request issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“the CFPB”) and listed as Docket No. CFPB-2018-0031 in the Federal […]
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The student loan ombudsman at CFPB has resigned, saying the agency’s leaders have chosen to serve powerful financial companies instead of consumers.
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Quicken Loans overtakes Wells Fargo as the largest loan originator.
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Deliberate efforts to undermine the CFPB will not only prove to be a raw deal for millions of Americans but can cause lasting damage to our economy.
As the Trump administration withdraws from enforcing consumer protection and fair lending law, state attorneys general are stepping into the breach.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stripped the Office of Fair Lending of its enforcement powers. John Taylor, President and CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition said, “I am appalled to see one of the most effective offices within the CFPB stripped of responsibility to stop redlining, predatory lending, and other discriminatory behavior by financial firms.”
Court rules in favor of consumer protection and finds the CFPB’s independent structure constitutional.
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Interim Director Mick Mulvaney has stripped CFPB Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunities of its enforcement powers against redlining and predatory behavior by financial firms.
The independent structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is constitutional, an appeals court ruled Wednesday in a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to ease regulations on the financial system.
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In a memo to bureau staff made public by ProPublica, Mulvaney finally laid out his vision for the agency: a government entity that doesn’t “push the envelope.”
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Interim Director Mick Mulvaney requested zero additional funds for the CFPB in the second quarter of fiscal year 2018.
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AmericanBanker, January 17, 2018: Mulvaney launches public review of entire CFPB The CFPB said it plans to publish a series of requests for information in the Federal Register in the coming weeks asking for the public to weigh in on the agency’s enforcement, supervision, rulemaking, market monitoring and education activities. “In this New Year, and under
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Mick Mulvaney intends to make all the drama surrounding his appointment as interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau worth it.
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The Senate Banking Committee will begin its markup today of a bill that would roll back the Dodd-Frank Act. Experts see it as a dangerous step. The Center for Responsible Lending, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and the National Consumer Law Center all oppose the bill.
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