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...Research by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau showed that more than 80 per cent of the market for credit cards is controlled by 10 of the 4,000 banks that offer them, including Capital One and Discover...
...What is noteworthy is that Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spoke and gave a set of recommendations for regulators’ future approach to payments policy....
...A proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to lower late fees for credit card payments risked raising costs for all consumers, Dimon said....
...Disney named a new chief financial officer on Monday. Five more top stories 1. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is planning to increase its oversight of technology companies....
...The point is to be a convening place that can contribute by offering “le gîte et le couvert” — “a place to eat and a place to sleep” — she added....
...The consumer price index for March rose by 5 per cent year-on-year — down from the 6 per cent recorded in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics....
...Consumers may need protection....
...In the US, in particular, consumer protections are better. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a huge plus. In the mortgage space at least, we have much more resilient homeowners....
...“Barr has spent his career protecting consumers, and during his time at Treasury, played a critical role in creating both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the position for which I am nominating...
...Financial Protection Bureau, which serves as the US consumer watchdog, over a review of bank mergers....
...The Atlanta-based company has also been criticised for its lending practices with The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau handing GreenSky a $2.5m fine in July for enabling merchants to take out loans on...
...(FT) The day ahead Confirmation hearings President Joe Biden’s choices to run the Securities and Exchange Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — Gary Gensler and Rohit Chopra, respectively...
...They’re being led there in part by rapid changes in consumer behaviour....
...The global community should be looking to rest, adjust or trim the ways things are, on a regular basis otherwise there will be imbalances allowing Trumps et al to garner support to deal with greater accrued...
...Hello from DC, where coronavirus has truly taken hold, and your FT bureau has taken to working from home like most of the city....
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...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...One investor says this round of levies, covering a range of consumer goods, will affect American shoppers: “The first two rounds of tariffs didn’t hit the consumer, but this one will.” 2....
...(FT) Dismantling the CFPB The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was intended to protect Americans following the financial crisis, but under Mick Mulvaney, now Mr Trump’s chief of staff, the agency underwent...
...In 2016, Judge Kavanaugh wrote an opinion that criticised the “massive, unchecked” power of the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency detested by the right....
...Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told staff in a memo on Wednesday that he would leave by the end of the month — eight months before his term was due to expire....
...This is the transcript of a conversation between Vladimir Putin, Russian president, Lionel Barber, Financial Times editor, and Henry Foy, the FT’s Moscow bureau chief, which took place on Wednesday 26 June...
...I have seen no data to show how Facebook and Twitter et al advance happiness or social cohesion....
...With the (temporary) exception of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Treasury, Fed and other supervisory agencies are imposing fewer new rules and being more generous in their interpretation of...
...This happy symbiosis does not describe the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the companies subject to its oversight....
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