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- 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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- 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
- House panel OKâ??s consumer protection agency
- WASHINGTON - The House Financial Services Committee voted Thursday to create a federal agency devoted to protecting U.S. consumers from predatory lending, abusive overdraft fees and unfair rate hikes. Democrats are hailing the 39-29 vote as a win for the average American. It is a major step forward in enacting...
- News items 2009-10-22
- US sees big banks largely funding consumer agency
- Reuters WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is proposing to fund the enhanced policing of financial firms by levying fees on the largest banks, while sparing community banks from increased costs, a Treasury official has said. The biggest banks and financial firms that do not fall under direct federal supervision will...
- News items 2009-08-14
- 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
- Federal Reserve: Cut down on gift card fees
- The U.S. Federal Reserve stepped up its consumer protection efforts for the second time in less than a week on Monday, proposing to limit the ability of gift card issuers to impose excessive fees. The Fed proposed banning any fees for the first year, and limiting gift card issuers to...
- News items 2009-11-16
- -FTC: Defendant in "U.S. Consumer Protection Agency" case agrees to settle charges.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 December 1998-FTC: Defendant in "U.S. Consumer Protection Agency" case agrees to settle charges C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:011298 Robert M. Oliver, who promoted a business opportunity through material posted on an Internet site that promised potential purchasers that...
- Research articles 1998-12-02
- Bank Watchdog Agency Needed - Obama
- By Steve HollandWASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - U.S. President Barack Obama defended on Saturday a consumer watchdog agency the financial industry wants to weaken or strip from legislation that would strengthen the regulation of Wall Street.The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives on Friday approved the biggest changes in financial regulation since the...
- News items 2009-12-17
- EPA seeks comment on drinking water notification rules.(the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to make it mandatory that public water systems send annual customer notifications regarding the quality of the drinking water being distributed)(Brief
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed new rules to implement requirements in the 1996 Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act that require public water systems to notify their customers annually about the quality of the drinking water distributed by the system (see Federal Register, Vol....
- Research articles 1998-02-23
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Small Business Resource Guide 2002; Federal Government.(Directory)
- Federal Trade Commission 55 E. Monroe St., Suite 1830 Chicago 60603 Phone: (877) 382-4357 Web site: www.ftc.gov, www.consumer.gov Serves as nation's principal consumer protection agency, dealing with deceptive and fraudulent practices. S Federal...
- Research articles 2002-03-11
- US House closes in on financial reforms passage
- QUICK SUMMARY | FULL STORY By Kevin Drawbaugh of Reuters WASHINGTON - The US House of Representatives was expected to approve the biggest changes in financial regulation since the Great Depression, marking a win for the Obama administration. With the Senate due to debate reforms well into next year, the...
- News items 2009-12-11
- Fed Meddles With Credit Card Issuers
- The Federal Reserve's plan to clamp down on credit card issuers represents a funny about-turn on its previous hands-off economic stance. Only a little while ago, you might remember, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan mulled a similar sort of effort over subprime lenders, but concluded ultimately that it would "require...
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Obama Warns Wall Street is Returning to Past Errors
- President Obama warned Monday that some in the financial industry have failed to learn from last year's failure of Lehman Brothers and the financial meltdown that followed. He pledged to make it harder for financial firms to be too big to fail. Obama travelled to Wall Street...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- House Approves Sweeping Financial Reforms
- By Kevin DrawbaughWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives approved the biggest changes in financial regulation since the Great Depression on Friday, marking a win for the Obama administration and top Democrats in Congress.The sweeping bill, which will have to be reconciled with any measure the slower-moving Senate might eventually...
- News items 2009-12-16
- Financial Reforms Grind Forward in Congress
- By Kevin DrawbaughWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress edged closer on Wednesday to creating new government powers to break up giant financial firms, which Europe is already doing, while a U.S. derivatives market crackdown got more complicated.More than a year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and massive government bailouts...
- News items 2009-11-19
- U.S. House Approves Financial Regulation Overhaul
- By Kevin DrawbaughWASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved the biggest changes in financial regulation since the Great Depression on Friday, marking a win for the Obama administration and congressional Democrats.With the Senate due to debate similar reforms well into next year, the House voted 223-202 to...
- News items 2009-12-17
- Alaska Consumer Protection Agency Settles with Mortgage Firm's Former Owner.
- By Sarana Schell, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 26--The state consumer protection office has settled unfair business practice and fraud claims against Jim Crawford, former owner of City Mortgage, an Anchorage company shuttered by federal Bankruptcy Court...
- Research articles 2003-12-26
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