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- the safeguarding of consumer interests in terms of quality, price, and safety, usually within a statutory framework. The growing purchasing power of consumers and the rise in consumerism from the...
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- Financial Reform Effort in Danger of Splintering
- Sure was entertaining to see the nation's top financial regulators clashing over turf on Friday like hyenas scrapping over a bone. More seriously, it shows the cracks appearing in the Obama administration's campaign for financial reform. Testifying Friday before the House Financial Services Committee, Treasury Secretary Tim...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Fourteen of the 20 FCC staffers now handling the remaining cable rate complaints would be melded into the Cable Services Bureau's consumer protection and competition division, under a restructuring plan unveiled last week by Deborah Lathen, chief of the b
- The revamping was expected because regulation of upper-tier rates' sunset on March 31. The six other staffers who now make up the financial analysis division would be transferred to the common carrier bureau to handle "slamming" cases aga The revamping was expected because regulation...
- Research articles 1999-04-12
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- Financial Regulation and Supervision after the Crisis: The Role of the Federal Reserve
- At the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 54th Economic Conference, Chatham, MassachusettsOctober 23, 2009 The theme of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Economic Conference this year–reevaluating regulatory, supervisory, and central banking policies in the wake of the crisis–is certainly timely. Not much more than a year ago, we and...
- News items 2009-10-23
- 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
- Reverse Convertibles vs. Consumer Protection
- http://rortybomb.wordpress.com submits: Since we’ve already run new stress tests out of this webpage, I’m going to go ahead and run the Consumer Protection Agency out of the Rortybomb Blog while President Obama and team continue to get the legislation worked out. (If I keep doing Elizabeth Warren’s homework for...
- External links 2009-06-18
- THE WHITE HOUSE: The Clinton-Gore plan for financial privacy and consumer protection in the 21st century.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-5 May 1999-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- The Clinton-Gore plan for financial privacy and consumer protection in the 21st century C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:040599 DETAILED PROPOSAL SUMMARY INTRODUCTION Technology and...
- Research articles 1999-05-05
- 'National Consumer Protection Week' Feb. 1-7; UC Web Site Teaches Teens to Be Savvy Consumers.
- Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture FRESNO, Calif., Jan. 30 AScribe Newswire -- The theme of 2004 National Consumer Protection Week, Feb. 1-7, is financial literacy, a subject teenagers can investigate on the University of California Cooperative Extension Web site "Money Talks: Should...
- Research articles 2004-01-30
- THE WHITE HOUSE: Remarks by the President on financial privacy and consumer protection.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-6 May 1999-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- Remarks by the President on financial privacy and consumer protection C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:040599 2:54 p.m. Presidential Hall THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, Mari. I...
- Research articles 1999-05-06
- FTC testifies on enforcement and education initiatives to combat predatory lending practices; Asks Congress to consider legislative expansions to enhance consumer protection.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-25 May 2000-US FTC: FTC testifies on enforcement and education initiatives to combat predatory lending practices; Asks Congress to consider legislative expansions to enhance consumer protection C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:24052000 Predatory lending practices in the subprime...
- Research articles 2000-05-25
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Deal or No Deal? 8 Phony 'Bargains' and Better Alternatives
- In this economy, enticing offers abound. But a lot of so-called bargains may turn out to be raw deals. For consumers, a little...
- Articles 2009-08-04
- EC sets out retail road-map.
- Byline: Green Paper on retail financial services calls for greater consumer protection and education Overview The European Commission's Green Paper on Retail Financial Services in the Single Market has called for properly regulated open markets, greater consumer protection and better consumer...
- Research articles 2007-05-10
- 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
- Insurance weighs heavily on agenda of House Financial Services panel. (Congress).
- The House Financial Services Committee plans an aggressive insurance-related agenda during the 108th Congress, including examination of state regulation, product approval and consumer protection. The House Financial Services Committee plans an aggressive insurance-related agenda during the 108th Congress, including examination of state...
- Research articles 2003-02-10
- Bank Regulators Divided on Securitization Plan
- By Kim DixonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. bank regulators on Tuesday approved an initial proposal to jump-start the securitization market and strengthen standards to avoid abuses that helped lead to the economic crisis, but the board remained divided on what limits to impose on banks.The board of the Federal Deposit Insurance...
- News items 2009-12-16
- NETSCAPE And AOL Award EF Moody's Financial Planning Site
- Business Editors SAN LEANDRO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 29, 2000--Errold Moody authors the largest and most comprehensive independent financial planing site on the Internet (http://www.efmoody.com) with over 1,000 pages and 888 links. It is designed for consumer knowledge and protection and debunks the marketing hype of...
- Research articles 2000-02-29
- Read and shred: rule reinforces ID protection of financial customers.
- A new rule requiring financial institutions to develop appropriate measures to dispose of consumer information isn't expected to change the way these institutions have been disposing of the information. The rule was issued under the Fair and Accurate A new rule requiring financial institutions to develop...
- Research articles 2005-02-21
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