consumer financial products

• CFPB Releases Expanded Complaint Database: Three Biggest Credit Unions Aboard

  By Heather Anderson  |  March 28, 2013

  About 360 against big three among more than 90,000 complaints posted on website over mortgages and other loans, credit cards, services.

• Two CU Executives Named to CFPB’s Consumer Advisory Board

  By Heather Anderson  |  September 14, 2012

  Centris FCU vice president joins Hope FCU CEO on agency panel.

• CFPB’s Credit Card Complaint Database Includes Two CUs

  By Heather Anderson  |  July 16, 2012

  Navy Federal, PenFed among financial institution listed. Navy Federal says complaint was handled and member got financial relief.

• Federal Supervisory Agencies Release Memorandum of Understanding

  By Heather Anderson  |  June 4, 2012

  Document clarifies how they, including the NCUA, will coordinate their supervisory activities, consistent with the Dodd-Frank Act.

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  Guest Opinion: CFPB’s ‘Public’ Regulatory Philosophy

  By Lauren Calhoun  |  May 14, 2012

  With a long to-do list and a director in place, the folks at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are off and running. Interestingly, they are off and running on a different path than traditional federal agencies.

• Obama Doubles Down With Cordray and CFPB

  By Claude R. Marx  |  January 9, 2012

  President Obama circumvented Senate Republicans and made a recess appointment of Richard Cordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In making the appointment he explained that we “shouldn’t be weakening oversight and accountability, we should be strengthening it–especially when it comes to looking out for families."

• Elizabeth Warren Returning to Harvard

  By Claude R. Marx  |  July 27, 2011

  It may be one of the few times when a faculty position at Harvard Law School is a consolation prize

• Treasury Official Wolin Boosts Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

  By Claude R. Marx  |  April 19, 2011

  Deputy secretary says new CFPB will allow other regulators to focus on core missions, expand consumer choice and be accountable to Congress.

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  Capito Holds Forth on Interchange, Other Issues

  By Claude R. Marx  |  April 13, 2011

  Less than four months into her tenure as chairman of the House subcommittee with primary jurisdiction over credit unions and other financial institutions, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) has already tackled a wide range of issues.

• House Panel to Hold Oversight Hearing on Consumer Bureau

  By Claude R. Marx  |  March 11, 2011

  Saying it will be the “start of a robust discussion,’’ on the set up of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, House Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee Chairman Shelley Moore Capito announced an oversight hearing next Wednesday.