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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Outlines Bank Supervision Approach

News release: “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today outlined the agency’s approach to supervising large depository institutions to ensure compliance with federal consumer financial protection laws – a supervisory process that will begin on July 21, 2011. “The new consumer agency is here to make sure that markets work for American families, and our… Continue Reading

Consumer Finance Protection Bureau – Defining Larger Nonbank Participants

News release: “The Dodd-Frank Act, signed into law last year, gives the CFPB the job of supervising large banks, as well as some other types of financial companies, for compliance with federal consumer financial protection laws. While banks, thrifts, and credit unions have been subject to examinations by various federal regulators in the past, other… Continue Reading

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Launches Website

“The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the launch of a ‘beta’ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) website, ConsumerFinance.gov, a critical link to the American public for soliciting ideas on the bureau’s creation and priorities and for answering questions on its work. “We have the opportunity to create a brand new consumer agency from the… Continue Reading