President Barack Obama tapped Warren to set up the new Consumer Protection Finance Bureau, but Republicans blocked efforts to make her its first director.
So some of you know we created this new Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.
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And Congress has ordered the new Consumer Finance Protection Bureau to determine whether arbitration clauses will be allowed at all.
And there may be more limitations on the way as the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau recently launched an inquiry asking banks for data about their overdraft practices.
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This week the Financial Supervision Agency took over the job of supervising the country's banks from the Finance Ministry's banking bureau.
But privatising the postal savings and insurance business was seen as the best way to wrestle these vast funds away from the finance ministry's Trust Fund Bureau.
It would be able to borrow money, with a government guarantee, either from the Bank of Japan or from the finance ministry's trust-fund bureau, which manages postal-savings money.
Our money coach, personal finance expert Alvin Hall, joined us from our New York bureau.
Since 1980, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of people employed in finance, broadly defined, has shot up from roughly five million to more than seven and a half million.
Contributions to Japan's partly funded system go into a special account at the finance ministry, to be managed by the ministry's trust-fund bureau.
Congress also gave the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau the authority to decide whether class waivers should be banned in consumer finance contracts.
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According to my calculations on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Federal Reserve, employment in business management and finance during the past 20 years correlated negatively at a moderate magnitude with changes in the interbank interest rate.
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Lambuth, who was taken off the project in July 1998, has provided an affidavit to Burton's committee that states some of the e-mails contained information regarding various matters under investigation either by Congress or the Justice Department, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation background files controversy, Lewinsky, trade mission information and campaign finance matters.
Dr. Edmans is a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute.
Entrants to the consumer-finance business are soon expected to gain access to valuable data when Terranet, a new industry-run credit bureau, is set up next month (assuming blocking efforts by Takefuji, the industry leader, which claims that it might be illegal to disclose some data, fail).
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