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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
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- NTA discontinues Consumer Protection program as a result of high losses. (In the News).(National Tour Association)
- NEW YORK--At a March 29 meeting, the National Tour Association NTA Board of Directors made a decision to eliminate the NTA Consumer Protection Plan CPP program and lower annual tour operator member dues by 43 percent to $400 effective Jan. 1, 2004. The decision to eliminate ...
- Research articles 2003-04-21
- 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
- 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
- Washington State Official Protests Raid on Consumer-Protection Funding.
- By Peter Lewis, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 11--Attorney General Christine Gregoire, angered over a proposal to grab part of the state's future tobacco-windfall settlement, is further discouraged over a House plan to take away the traditional funding for one...
- Research articles 2002-03-11
- ACCC: Australia aids South African competition/consumer protection development.
- 3 M2 PRESSWIRE-10 December 1998-ACCC: Australia aids South African competition/consumer protection development C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD3 RDATE:091298 The development of an effective competition regime in South Africa was the subject of a plan of activities agreement signed...
- Research articles 1998-12-10
- O2 unveils protection plan for mobile adult content
- O2 has become the first mobile operator to announce a formal consumer protection scheme for the introduction of mobile adult content. In the next month the operator will launch a mechanism enabling mobile phones to be barred from receiving adult premium SMS. The scheme will then be extended...
- Research articles 2003-01-30
- 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
- Bankruptcy Protection for Your Accounts
- Are a debtor's retirement plan assets exempt from the individual's bankruptcy estate? Until recently, the answer to this question depended on whether or not the retirement plan holding the assets was an ERISA or a non-ERISA retirement plan. For non-ERISA retirement plans, the level of protection was determined by the...
- White papers 2006-01-30
- Nevada Utility President Says Tiered Rate Plan Is Unpopular with Customers.
- By John G. Edwards, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 7--Nevada Power Co. is proposing a rate plan that would hit the smallest residential users harder than people consuming large quantities of power, according to an analysis by the attorney general's...
- Research articles 2002-02-07
- CONSUMER ACTION PROGRAMME: EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO PROPOSE NEW THREE-YEAR PLAN
- Summary: The three-year action programme on consumer policy looks set for approval at the European Commission's weekly meeting on July 22. It will comprise only one legislative proposal, with regard to allegations on food products, and, in particular, several White Papers, which amply illustrate the...
- Research articles 1993-07-20
- Metris Adds Identity Theft Protection Plan to Fraud Alert Services
- Business Editors MINNETONKA, Minn.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 16, 2002 Metris Partners with PromiseMarkTM to Enhance Card Registration Product To answer the growing consumer demand for protection against identity theft, Metris Companies Inc. (NYSE:MXT) is offering an innovative Identity Theft Protection feature with its Fraud Alert ServicesSM card registration...
- Research articles 2002-05-16
- 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
- SEC backs plan to let brokerages sell shares
- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved a stopgap plan to let brokerages sell shares to their customers' fee-based accounts, after a court rejected a rule exempting brokers from stiff consumer-protection requirements imposed on other money managers. The SEC, at a public meeting in Washington Wednesday, passed on...
- Research articles 2007-09-20
- Master Plan Aims to Provide Roadmap to Sound Thai Financial System.
- By Parista Yuthamanop, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 29--Strengthening the domestic financial sector, expanding public access to services and bolstering consumer protection are the main goals of the financial master plan to be reviewed by the cabinet tomorrow....
- Research articles 2003-12-29
- Clinton's advisory commission and Congress work to clarify new health standards. (Bill Clinton, President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection & Quality in the Health Care Industry)(Washington Notebook)(Column)
- The over-arching focus of the health care industry, including insurers, is in preparing to deal with health plan standards -- both by the administration and by Congress. The over-arching focus of the health care industry, including insurers, is in preparing to deal with...
- Research articles 1997-09-15
- California May Dismantle Utility Consumer Protection Arm.(Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)
- SACRAMENTO, Calif.--May 31--The state Public Utilities Commission Thursday agreed on a sweeping restructuring plan that could diminish a critical voice for consumers and undermine the independence of the agency's administrative law judges. SACRAMENTO, Calif.--May 31--The state Public Utilities Commission Thursday agreed on a sweeping restructuring...
- Research articles 1996-05-31
- Judge Bars Tax Plan Marketer from Operating in Kansas.
- By Gene Meyer, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 16--A Shawnee County district judge has ordered a Topeka tax plan marketer to stop operating in Kansas because its marketing tactics violate state law. Shawnee County District Judge...
- Research articles 2001-05-16
- Labor targets GM food, mobile credit traps in consumer protection plan.
- Oct 4, 2001 (The Sydney Morning Herald Oct 4, 2001 (The Sydney Morning Herald
- Research articles 2001-10-03
- Y2K bill introduced in Congress
- With the year 2000 fast approaching, a bill was recently introduced in Congress to encourage businesses to make good-faith efforts to fix computer problems anticipated at the start of the new millennium. The bill (H.R. 192) includes a mandatory arbitration provision. Also known as the Year 2000 Consumer Protection Plan...
- Research articles 1999-05-01
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