This Week in Wall Street Reform
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This Week in Wall Street Reform
Click here to view this week’s highlights and lowlights in Wall Street Reform – February 18, 2012 – February 24, 2012.
AFR Press Statement: CFPB Inquiry into Overdraft Practices a Welcome Step
AFR welcomes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s newly announced inquiry into overdraft fees, their impact on consumers, and in particular the Bureau’s focus on check re-ordering, and misleading or confusing marketing of so-called “standard” overdraft protection, a product deemed so abusive that regulators now require a consumer’s affirmative consent or “opt-in”.
AFR Press Statement: CFPB Makes Progress Towards Supervision of Debt Collectors and Consumer Reporting Agencies
“In issuing its proposed rule defining ‘larger participants ‘in the debt collection and consumer credit reporting markets the CFPB took an important step towards more accountability and fairness in the consumer financial marketplace.”
This Week in Wall Street Reform
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This Week in Wall Street Reform
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AFR Letter: Don’t Cripple the CFPB, Reject HR 1355 & 2081
AFR sent a letter to members of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit asking that they reject HR 2081 and HR 1355, two bills that would cripple the CFPB.
This Week in Wall Street Reform
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Sign On Letter: AFR Supports a Public Credit Card Complaints Database
AFR signed onto a comment letter to the CFPB with 21 organizations recommending that they expand their excellent proposal to create a public database for credit card complaints to include actual complaint narratives, and suggestions to make it easier for researchers and the public to access the data as a pre-purchase tool to avoid problems and to help identify where troubling trends lie.
(Comments drafted by Consumer Action)
This Week in Wall Street Reform
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