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Fiduciary provision key part of financial reform
Financial professionals are waging a heated battle over a little-noticed part of the financial reform bill moving through Congress that’s all about one word: trust. For individual investors who pay professionals to help them invest… -
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Financial-reform fight draws quirky crowd of lobbyists
Wall Street banks and financial services companies are hardly the only ones fretting provisions of the financial-reform legislation now awaiting House and Senate negotiators. Indian tribes, the Envelope Manufacturers Association and hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons… -
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Key issues as Congress finalizes financial reform
From big banks’ exotic trades to the credit cards in people’s wallets, it only takes a few of the most contentious issues to upend a careful political equilibrium as lawmakers try to blend House and… -
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau closer to reality
House and Senate negotiators closed in on an agreement Tuesday that would create a new consumer protection agency, one of the main components of the sweeping rewrite of financial industry rules. In response to furious… -
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From card fees to mortgages, a new day for consumers
At last, it’s settled. After months of haggling, the terms of financial reform are set, so long as both houses of Congress vote to accept them in the coming days. While elected officials spent much… -
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Financial Reform spells a win for consumers
The U.S. House and Senate conference committee passed a final bill today that includes a bureau devoted exclusively to consumer financial protection. “Consumer Action has long supported a consumer financial watchdog that has both the… -
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Wave of new rules to protect consumers
The financial overhaul bill that has taken final shape would give the government a larger role in guarding the wallets of consumers — many of whom, it became clear in the financial crisis, did not… -
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Warren to head launch of financial protection bureau
President Obama, sidestepping a possibly heated confirmation battle, will appoint Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren as a special advisor to the Treasury Department to launch the government’s powerful new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to… -
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Some suggestions for the new consumer chief
So she got the job. What should she do with it? The appointment of Elizabeth Warren to oversee the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, announced on Friday, makes it pretty obvious how special… -
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Adviser to consumer agency had role in lending
A senior adviser to Elizabeth Warren, hired to help start the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is an investor in and, until recently, served as a director of a company that helps to arrange low-documentation loans… -
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She’s the watchdog consumers will thank
When Yahoo put out its top 10 searches in the financial category for 2010, there was no surprise to find, among the leaders, unemployment, foreclosures and the Dow Jones flash crash, the term coined for… -
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Elizabeth Warren starts shaping consumer protection agency
Elizabeth Warren, special adviser to the president, is trying to help shake things up as she puts together the nation’s first federal consumer protection agency. The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will not officially… -
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There’s a new sheriff in town to watch out for consumers
The newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau doesn’t officially open for business until July 21. But the agency is already making its presence felt. The bureau has just debuted a new website, ConsumerFinance.gov, that features… -
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Elizabeth Warren is expecting your call
The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is open to your suggestions. Officials have said they expect that the bureau will become the “cop on the beat” to enforce laws on consumer financial products and services… -
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The war on Warren
Last week, at a House hearing on financial institutions and consumer credit, Republicans lined up to grill and attack Elizabeth Warren, the law professor and bankruptcy expert who is in charge of setting up the… -
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Consumer bureau foes should look at banks
Elizabeth Warren, the Obama administration adviser assigned to set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said lawmakers looking to limit the agency’s authority should focus instead on the Wall Street “behemoths” aiming to undermine its… -
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Consumer bureau’s Richard Cordray
The tall, soft-spoken man pad ding around the fifth floor of 1801 L St. — often not wearing shoes and occasionally quoting Shakespeare — seems at first more like a college professor than a hard-charging… -
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Party like it’s 2013
Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee are having a campaign fund-raiser this week. Starting on Wednesday, the committee’s majority is expected to pass bills to cripple the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, one of the… -
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Consumer Action opposes bills to cripple consumer bureau
The House Financial Services Committee is expected to vote Thursday on bills that would damage the new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) before it even opens its doors. The Bureau is scheduled to… -
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Banks want U.S. complaint line kept private
The new U.S. consumer agency, which has yet to begin formal operations or write a rule, is already being squeezed between banks and advocacy groups over how to set up a complaint hotline. Under… -
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Access to consumer complaints keeps everyone accountable
Washington D.C. A coalition of consumer, civil rights, good government, and community groups have called on the new federal financial watchdog, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), to ensure that the public has full and… -
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Big battle brews for consumer protection agency
Didn’t we learn anything from the financial meltdown? Individual consumers cannot protect themselves from lenders that are willing to use predatory practices to boost profits. Reputable businesses cannot compete when competitors don’t play by the… -
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Wall Street’s newest cop ready for duty
Even as Congress squabbles over who will lead the new consumer watchdog, the fledgling agency is gearing up to police Wall Street. Over the last several months, Republicans have scrutinized the early moves of the… -
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Agency builder, not yet its leader
It is conventional wisdom in this town that the first director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be anyone but Elizabeth Warren. In nine months overseeing the bureau’s start-up, Elizabeth Warren has made… -
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Obama passes over creator of consumer bureau
President Obama’s nomination to lead a new financial services consumer protection bureau is notable for who he passed over. Instead of Elizabeth Warren—who proposed and developed the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—Obama went with former…
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