She carved a national profile in her advocacy for the creation of a new, independent federal financial consumer protection agency.
The American Bankers Association in 2011 asked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to apply consumer financial protection laws uniformly across the financial sector regardless of whether an entity is a traditional bank or one of the evolving nonbank payment providers.
Today seven different regulators have some responsibility for consumer financial protection, but none is focused on consumer protection as their priority.
Fresh off her failed nomination to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, consumer advocate and Democrat Elizabeth Warren has announced her plan to run for the Senate in Massachusetts, challenging incumbent Republican Scott Brown.
In conjunction with the enforcement action, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released two Consumer Advisories.
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The special interests and their agents in Congress claim that reforms like the Consumer Financial Protection Agency will stifle consumer choice and that updated rules and oversight will frustrate innovation in the financial markets.
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In the wake of the financial crisis, Congress established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which began operating in 2011.
And they would consolidate the consumer protection functions currently spread across half a dozen agencies and vest them in a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
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The industry's financial "advice" is one area that the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, if it's ever established, should examine very closely.
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In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, Warren brainstormed what would become the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a way of protecting consumers against the predatory financial services industry and was brought to Washington D.
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The financial crisis has demonstrated beyond any question that our current approach to consumer financial protection has failed.
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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Among other things, it sets up a Financial Stability Oversight Council to oversee systemic risk in the economy, creates an independent consumer financial protection bureau housed within the Federal Reserve and establishes exchanges for the trading of over-the-counter derivatives.
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There are 14 major players in the servicing business that have come under attack by all fifty of our States Attorneys General, the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, dozens of class action lawyers, and a host of other consumer friendly advocates.
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The controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced its first enforcement action today against Capital One Bank.
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It is the third public enforcement action taken by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
On Wednesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau outlined a set of options designed to encourage such refinancings.
Democrats proposed to house a consumer financial protection agency inside the Federal Reserve, but with independent authority.
You can also file a complaint with your state attorney general and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Or, why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency, should protect your business as well as consumers.
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Inquiries or complaints on credit or mortgage products should be directed to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Obama also re-nominated Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created after the financial meltdown.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is entering 2013 poised to flex its muscles more vigorously than ever before.
One of the main elements of the legislation is a new consumer financial protection bureau within the Federal Reserve.
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One of them, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), opened its doors recently.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is an important element of Wall Street reform.
Among worrisome signs is its proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009.
They want the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to change the Credit CARD Act.
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