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- Banks Hope to Scuttle Plan for New Consumer Watchdog
- Puzzling story today in American Banker, which writes that the U.S. banking industry "refuses to engage" with lawmakers on Capitol Hill writing legislation to establish a so-called Consumer Financial Protection Agency registration required. Yet the same piece offers this quote from Scott Talbott, the chief lobbyist for...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Should Bank CEOs Direct Employees to Scuttle Consumer Protection Agency?
- It's no secret that the American Bankers Association wants to torpedo the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Now the group also wants bank leaders to dragoon employees into opposing it. Says the ABA, the industry's leading trade organization, in an August 21 entry in the "What's News" section of...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Why We Need a New Agency to Protect Consumers
- Harvard Law professor and TARP overseer Elizabeth Warren explains why Obama's proposed new watchdog would help bankers as much as consumers. Unlike many other consumer crusaders, Warren had the clout to get her ideas taken seriously. The head of the congressional panel overseeing ...
- Articles 2009-07-10
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- John Pattow on the CFPA and Small Banks
- http://rortybomb.wordpress.com submits: University of Michigan Law Professor John Pattow, who specializes in Bankruptcy and Commercial Law, talks about the effects of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) on small banks: Leaving aside the irony of the ABA’s new-found populism, the real objection to this argument is that...
- External links 2009-09-13
- Why Obama's Bank Shakeup Won't Save Consumers
- The White House would have been better off giving broader powers to existing regulatory agencies and focusing more on efforts to educate investors. As part of his planned overhaul of the entire...
- Articles 2009-06-23
- Danger & Opportunity: Healthcare, Financial Service Reform Making Headway
- Two of the Obama Administration's top priorities to accomplish by year-end—healthcare and financial services reform—are well on their way to fruition.The Senate Finance Committee passed October 13 its version of healthcare reform, and at press time White House and Congressional leaders were busy trying to meld provisions of five House...
- News items 2009-10-30
- IFSCC Congress is set for October in Orlando
- Sept. 20-22: Emulsion-Suspension Technology, New Brunswick, NJ. More info: Center for Professional Advancement, (732) 238-1600; Email: info@cfpa.com; Website: www.cfpa.com. Sept. 20-22: Microencapsulation and Particle Coating, Chicago, IL. More info: Center for Professional Advancement, (732) 238-1600; Email: info@cfpa.com; Website: www.cfpa.com. Sept. 23: Women in Flavor and Fragrance Commerce WFFC,...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
- Small Banks Fear Consumer Agency Will put Them in Deep Freeze
- Would the federal government's proposed Consumer Financial Products Agency hurt America's small banks by requiring them to offer "plain-vanilla" financial products? Community bankers fear that would limit their ability to provide the kinds of mortgage loans, credit cards and other offerings customers want and to differentiate themselves...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- PaintIndia is set for next month
- Sept. 4-5: Report 2006: International Coatings Exhibition and Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina. More info: www.report.sater.org.ar; E-mail: sater@sater.org. Sept. 5-6: North African Coatings Congress NACC, Casablanca, Morocco. More info: dmg world media, E-mail: jennifermoore@uk.dmgworldmedia.com; www.coatingsgroup.com. Sept. 13-15: Additives for Coatings, course no. 664, East Brunswick, NJ. More info: The...
- Research articles 2006-08-01
- Fast Food Restaurants Help the Environment and Our Children's Future by Using Processed Chlorine Free Products
- This article informs that fast food restaurants like McDonalds, Wendy's and Burger King are using environmentally friendly, processed chlorine free food service products from Processed Chlorine Free PCF certified Huhtamaki USA. The PCF certification is part of CFPA's Sustainable Manufacturing & Marketing Initiative SMMI, which measures manufacturers' performance on social,...
- White papers 2004-09-13
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- SUSTAINABILITY IN ACTION Neenah Paper is adding two environmentally friendly papers to its Classic brands. Recycled Bright White and Recycled Natural White are both available as FSC-certified and Processed Chlorine Free PCF. "Neenah is the first mill in the world to watermark the FSC symbol and chain of...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Regulation Week: What Do Consumers Need Protection From?
- http://rortybomb.wordpress.com submits: Sigh. So much for a Justice League of financial regulators. It looks far more like the Articles Of Confederation. Felix Salmon has the scoop: ” FOSC = NBS + FDIC + NCUA + SEC + CFTC + FHFA + FOMC + CFPA...
- External links 2009-06-17
- We Need Less Regulation, Not More
- Justin, the problem with saying that 'some' regulation is good is that it is very ambiguous, because in today's regulated environment, it could mean doubling, or halving, the number of regulations and bureaucrats meddling in finance. I'm more on the halving side. I...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- CFPA and Non-Bank Lenders
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak Elizabeth Warren has a new op-ed at New Deal 2.0 arguing for, surprise, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, but this time with a different emphasis – non-bank lenders. by The Baseline Scenario
- External links 2009-09-07
- Regulatory Reform: The Political Calculus
- Tom Armistead submits: Obama's address to Wall Street was poorly received – a smattering of applause for the announcement of the CFPA, but otherwise a deafening silence, followed afterward by commentary that sees little probability of meaningful reform of financial regulation. Most denizens of Wall Street have missed the point....
- External links 2009-09-17
- Who Should Protect Consumers?
- Remember "states' rights?" Back when the federal government was a strong regulator of consumer products and services, including banks, airlines, brokerages, cable TV and drugs, pro-business factions screamed bloody murder. According to them, federal regulation usurped states' rights to enforce their own laws, which, they argued, would...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- The Many Faces of Michael Oxley
- Remember Michael Oxley? He's the former Republican congressman from Ohio who joined forces with ex-Sen. Paul Sarbanes to co-author the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, which sought to halt the kind of supersized corporate fraud that sank Enron and WorldCom, among many others. For an encore, Oxley...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Will Merchants and Consumers Get Relief From Soaring Credit Card Fees?
- Kathy and Warren Miller run a mom-and-pop grocery store in tiny Elmore, Vt. pictured at left, and soaring credit card fees are strangling it. In congressional testimony on Thursday, she said they make only two cents whenever a customer pays for a 99 cent bag of potato...
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- FDIC's Bair Sees Consensus on "too Big to Fail"
- CHICAGO (Reuters) - Key officials and lawmakers are reaching a "growing consensus" on the need for a strong mechanism that would allow the government to dismantle troubled financial giants, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said on Monday.Sheila Bair said administration officials, top bank regulators and lawmakers all...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Regulation and Breaking Up the Biggest Banks Likely Biggest Issues of 2010
- http://rortybomb.wordpress.com submits: So we’ve spent a fair amount of time on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA); I need to move over and start blogging about all the other parts of the financial reform which I should have been doing all along. A lot of this battle is still...
- External links 2009-11-01
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