Report finds flaws at consumer financial bureau
Julian Hattem writes at The Hill’s RegWatch blog: A centrist think tank report has mixed praised for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). While the Bipartisan Policy Center analysis found...
View ArticleThe CFPB’s Staggering Claim
Ammon Simon writes at National Review Online’s Bench Memos: I’ve previously written about CEI’s constitutional challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is currently on appeal to the...
View ArticleRegulatory Burdens: The Impact of Dodd-Frank on Community Banking
Hester Peirce, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform earlier this year: Chairman Jordan, Ranking Member Cartwright, and...
View ArticleCFPB tweaks mortgage-lending rules
Ben Goad writes at the Hill’s RegWatch blog: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is making changes to the forthcoming mortgage-lending regulations as it seeks to protect the country from another...
View ArticleIndustry groups fret over expansion of discrimination rules
Julian Hattem writes at The Hill‘s RegWatch blog: Business groups warn that some regulations aiming to combat discrimination are counterproductive and could end up hurting the very people they were...
View ArticleFinal draft for Volcker Rule
Ben Goad writes at The Hill’s RegWatch blog: As soon as this week, regulators will begin to review a final draft of the highly anticipated Volcker Rule, the Dodd-Frank provision barring banks that get...
View ArticleIs the Volcker Rule the Next Train Wreck in Washington, D.C.?
Tom Quaadman writes at Free Enterprise: Remember the Addams Family, when Gomez Addams would gleefully watch his toy trains go around the tracks and intentionally crash or blow-up them up? Well, we have...
View ArticleSEC official says final Volcker rule ‘significantly different’
Eva Taylor and Sakari Suoninen write for Reuters via Yahoo news: (Reuters) – The final version of the Volcker rule to ban banks from gambling with their own money is “significantly different” from the...
View ArticleMatt Miller: New Volcker Rule is too complicated to work
Matt Miller writes in the Washington Post: The Volcker Rule, meant to end risky proprietary trading at deposit-taking, taxpayer- protected banks, weighed in upon approval Tuesday at around 1,000 pages...
View ArticleFederal consumer bureau data-mining hundreds of millions of consumer credit...
Richard Pollock reports for the Washington Examiner: Officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are conducting a massive, NSA-esque data-mining project collecting account information on an...
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