Settlement with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cites failures with preauthorized electronic fund transfers, reopening closed accounts https://www.wsj.com/articles/usaa-to-pay-12-million-in-restitution-to-customers-3-5-million-fine-11546556437
Category Archives: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
Business as usual or a new direction? https://www.consumerreports.org/government-law-regulation/what-to-expect-from-the-new-head-of-the-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/20/news/companies/wells-fargo-regulators-auto-lending-fine/index.html
Agencies under President Trump’s executive discretion have taken a laid back approach to consumer protections relative to previous administrations. The Washington Post writes: “At the [CFPB], for example, enforcement actions have dropped from an average of three-to-five each month during the past four years down to zero since a Trump appointee took charge of the […]
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/consumer-protection-bureau-structure-upheld-in-blow-to-trumps-deregulation-efforts.html
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has put a full-scale probe of how Equifax (NYSE:EFX) failed to protect the personal data of some 143M Americans on ice, sources told Reuters. The effort has sputtered since Mick Mulvaney was named director in November, raising questions about how he will police a data-warehousing industry that has enormous sway […]
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/25/politics/frank-cfpb-appointment/index.html
Fox guarding the hen house. Mulvaney was one of the agency’s most vocal critics during his time in the House and voted in favor to kill the agency. http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/16/news/economy/trump-mulvaney-cfpb-appointment/index.html?iid=SF_LN