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CFPBWatch.org Launched, Spotlights Trump Administration’s Anti-Consumer Agenda
New Effort from Allied Progress Documents Who Is ‘Weakening the Bureau From Within,’ Exposes Administration’s Corporate Conflicts of Interest
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REPORT: Most Who Filed SCOTUS Amicus Briefs Opposing CFPB’s Constitutionality Have Financial Motive in Crippling the Bureau
The vast majority of those who filed challenges to the bureau’s for-cause removal provision – and some to the CFPB’s very existence – have financial motives in seeing the bureau stripped of its independence or struck down entirely.
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CFPB Director Kraninger Made Time For Big Bank Holiday Parties
Kraninger blocked off time to attend two separate holiday parties hosted by the Bank Policy Institute and the American Bankers Association — because it’s what friends do.
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What a Joke: Kraninger Taps a Corporate Shill to Lead New Consumer Financial ‘Taskforce’
Kraninger announced corporate consultant extraordinaire Todd Zywicki as the Chairman of her newly formed ‘Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law’ despite his record deriding the Bureau as a “tragic failure”
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A Year Later, Trump CFPB Director Kraninger Has Proven as Useful to Greedy Industries as Mulvaney
A sobering new report marks CFPB Director Kraninger’s first full year on the job. Learn how she’s systematically sold out consumers to Trump’s industry donors, especially predatory lenders.
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Trump CFPB Point Man On Gutting Debt Collection Rules To Keynote Another Swanky Debt Industry Conference
Washington D.C. (November 7th, 2019) – Today, the Trump-Kraninger CFPB’s top aide overseeing the overhaul of debt collection rules, Tom Pahl, is set to deliver the keynote address at a conference hosted by ACA International, the leading debt collection industry trade group. It will be the second ACA speaking engagement in three months for Pahl, an attorney who used to represent…
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Caught On Tape: Payday Lenders Openly Brag That Their Contributions Lead to Regulation Rollbacks
Payday Execs Pressure Supporters to Donate More to Trump Campaign to Ensure a Final CFPB Rule That Perpetuates the Payday Debt Trap Washington D.C. — As reported by the Washington Post, a video obtained by consumer watchdog groups Allied Progress and Americans for Financial Reform shows payday industry executives bluntly discussing how campaign contributions to…
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Allied Progress Analysis Finds At Least 1-in-7 CFPB Debt Rule Public Comments Came From Debt Industry Personnel
But Do Any Actual CONSUMERS Support The CFPB’s Plan to Flood Families With Unlimited, Unsolicited Texts and Emails From Debt Collectors? WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the public comment period officially ended for the CFPB’s debt collection proposal, consumer watchdog group Allied Progress released an analysis finding that at least 1,221 comments filed in support of the rule came…
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Consumers Would Have Saved Over $6B a Year Starting Today, Then Trump Happened
In payback to Trump’s predatory lending donors, the CFPB delayed a rule protecting vulnerable communities from the payday loan debt trap.
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Swamp Thing: CFPB Official Leading the Effort to Gut Debt Collection Rules to Be Toasted at Debt Industry Conference
How can CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger’s efforts to overhaul debt collection rules possibly be impartial and fair to consumers, when her top aide overseeing the effort (Tom Pahl) is speaking at a swanky debt industry summit?