May 18, 2013

Why So Few Mega-Credit Card Class Action Settlements?

JPMorgan Chase and Class Counsel have received preliminary approval of a $100 million class … [Read more...]

Credit Card Data

The CFPB released a beta version of its complaint database on June 19th. Right now, one can only … [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...]

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...]

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Warns Financial Industry RE Third-Party Vendors (LPS) and Foreclosure Mills

“Last year, Lender Processing Services Inc. which handles technology and other outside … [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...]

Cordray: Say, what this CFPB needs is more power

Tool time. When Senate Republicans blocked the confirmation of Richard Cordray to run the Consumer … [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...]

Payday Loans are First Target of New Consumer Protection Chief

Richard Cordray’s first CFPB hearing will be held today and will focus on the practices of payday … [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...]

Obamateurism of the Day

Phantom obstructions? When Barack Obama issued his recess appointments of Richard Cordray as head of … [Read more...]

Obama Defies Republicans, Plans to Bypass Congress and Install Richard Cordray as Head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

Obama defies Republicans with consumer agency pick (Reuters) – President Barack Obama plans to … [Read more...]

Breaking: National Journal reports Obama to use recess appointment for Cordray

Boom. Exactly one week ago, I warned that Barack Obama would not feel himself constrained from … [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...]

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