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What Can Students Do to Protect Themselves?
Posted by on March 6, 2013 at 4:25 PM EDTThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has developed a suite of tools to help students manage college debt and improve their financial literacy.
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So, How Do I Submit A Complaint?
Posted by on March 5, 2013 at 12:03 PM EDTAs part of National Consumer Protection Week, the CFPB lays out the steps to submitting a credit card complaint.
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Helping Military Families Protect Themselves from Buyer's Remorse
Posted by on March 4, 2013 at 3:13 PM EDTThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers tips to help servicemembers avoid buyer's remorse when making big financial decisions.
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Weekly Wrap Up: Our People, Our Future
Posted by on January 25, 2013 at 6:12 PM EDTHere’s a quick glimpse at what happened this week on WhiteHouse.gov.
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President Obama: The American People Need Richard Cordray Standing Up for Them
Posted by on January 24, 2013 at 5:45 PM EDTPresident Obama renominates Richard Cordray as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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President Obama Nominates Mary Jo White to Run the SEC
Posted by on January 24, 2013 at 4:57 PM EDTAs a U.S. Attorney, White specialized in investigating and prosecuting large scale white collar crimes and complex securities and financial institution fraud, and won convinctions against the terrorists responsible for bombing the World Trade Center and American embassies in Africa.
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Assuring Consumers Have Access to Mortgages They Can Trust
Posted by on January 10, 2013 at 1:13 PM EDTThe Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau explains the new Ability-to-Repay rule for mortgages. To put it simply: lenders should not set up consumers to fail.
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Weekly Address: Protecting the American People with New Wall Street Reforms
Posted by on October 27, 2012 at 5:30 AM EDTIn this week’s address, President Obama highlights the work of the new independent consumer watchdog he fought to create.
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By the Numbers: $140 Million
Posted by on July 23, 2012 at 12:38 PM EDTAs a result of enforcement action by the CFPB, Capital One Bank must refund $140 million to 2 million customers who were pressured or misled into paying for “add-on products” such as payment protection and credit monitoring when they activated their credit cards.
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Wall Street Reform Two-Years Later: Reforming the System and Protecting American Consumers
Posted by on July 21, 2012 at 3:06 PM EDTTwo years ago today, President Obama signed into law Wall Street reform that put in place smarter, tougher, commonsense rules of the road and the strongest consumer protections in history.
