JPMorgan Chase and Class Counsel have received preliminary approval of a $100 million class … [Read more...]
Consumer Protection Out of the Shadows of Shadow Banking: The Role of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Protection Out of the Shadows of Shadow Banking: The Role of the Consumer Financial … [Read more...]
CHRISTOPHER L. PETERSON | What is a Bank Robber?
What is a Bank Robber? Mafia families’ use of homicide and torture is, indeed, profoundly … [Read more...]
CFPB Gets Plurality of Complaints About Mortgages
CFPB Gets Plurality of Complaints About Mortgages The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a … [Read more...]
CFPB Report | Semi-Annual Report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Semi-Annual Report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Message from Richard Cordray DIRECTOR … [Read more...]
Team Tim v. Team Neal on the Financial Crisis
Matthew Yglesias has a fantastic piece about the Barofsky-Geithner proxy debate on the financial … [Read more...]
Student-loan debt: The next bailout?
Only on the backs of private lenders. Haven’t we seen this one coming for a while? Back in … [Read more...]
Obama: When I try something that doesn’t work, I don’t try it again — except when I do
More housing-market messes. I realize I already discussed this moment in an earlier post, but there … [Read more...]
CFPB | Obama’s Consumer Watchdog Gets Sued Over Recess Appointment
Obama’s consumer watchdog gets sued A small Texas bank, together with two conservative advocacy … [Read more...]
Ranking Member Cummings Applauds CFPB on Joint Guidance to Protect Military Families from Foreclosure
Ranking Member Cummings Applauds CFPB on Joint Guidance to Protect Military Families from … [Read more...]
Glorious: Texas bank to launch constitutional challenge to Dodd-Frank
Excellent. With every fiber of my being, I detest the woefully-orchestrated, unbearably intrusive … [Read more...]
Attention Homeowners & Lawyers: AG Mortgage Settlement Launches Online Complaint Sites
Finally, there are places online where homeowners, lawyers and other advocates can go to lodge … [Read more...]
Attention Homeowners & Lawyers: AG Mortgage Settlement Launches Online Complaint Sites
Finally, there are places online where homeowners, lawyers and other advocates can go to lodge … [Read more...]
Prof Chris Peterson Joins Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
U. prof joins federal consumer financial protection unit Washington • A University of Utah law … [Read more...]
FTC Mobile Payments Conference on April 26
Here's a plug for a conference on mobile payments that the FTC is hosting next week. It will … [Read more...]
Robosigning 2.0: Coming to a Foreclosure Review Near You
Last October, I wrote a post entitled "Robosigning 2.0" that discussed some job ads for … [Read more...]
The CFPB is concerned that you don’t know how to avoid an overdraft fee
Interference. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s latest all-consuming interest is … [Read more...]
Payment Protection Plans
We have not talked a lot about payment protection plans, those great deals where the bank agrees to … [Read more...]
Jan 24, 2012 Congressional Oversight Committee CFPB Cordray Hearing (*Bonus* Congressional Bank-Puppet Ass Alert — Gowdy & McHenry)
Event: ‘How Will The CFPB Function Under Richard Cordray?’ Back in May 2011, Elizabeth … [Read more...]
Why We Need a Consumer Protection Bureau… Lender Processing Services
Why We Need a Consumer Protection Bureau More than 500 readers voted in Friday’s poll about … [Read more...]
Why We Need a Consumer Protection Bureau… Lender Processing Services
Why We Need a Consumer Protection Bureau More than 500 readers voted in Friday’s poll about … [Read more...]
The CFPB Gets a Director
The CFPB is finally getting a Director, which enables it to exercise its full range of powers. … [Read more...]
Consumer Protection Out of the Shadows of Shadow Banking: The Role of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Protection Out of the Shadows of Shadow Banking: The Role of the Consumer Financial … [Read more...]