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Showing the Latest Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Results
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Prepaid Perdue: Senator Pushes the Legislative Limits to Help Major Donor
Netspend has given Sen. Perdue more than $33,000. Now he’s bending over backwards to make sure it can continue to rip off Americans.
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Irony: GOP Congressman Who Hired Lobbyists as Senior Staff Presses CFPB Director on Revolving Door
Budd doesn’t seem to have a problem with hiring lobbyists for senior positions on his own staff.
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Smug GOP Congressman Falsely Implies CFPB Paid Law Firm It Actually Charged with Fraud
Emmer displayed a stunning lack of knowledge about the CFPB’s work and results.
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Group Pushing CFPB “Reform” Run by Ex-Rep. Who Took $1.43 Million from CFPB-Regulated Industries
Credit Union National Association president was friend to CFPB regulated special interests in Congress.
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Payday-Funded Group Cites Payday-Funded Poll to Argue Against CFPB’s Payday Rule
The main payday lending industry trade group contributed $385,000 to the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce from 2011-2014.
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Small Businessman Claims to be Satisfied Payday Customer, Fails to Note 80% of His Revenue Comes from Payday Lender
Author of op-ed in The Hill failed to mention he’s a contractor for payday lenders and that’s where 80% of his revenue comes from.
Sherrill Failed to Mention That 80% of His Business Revenue Is from a Payday Lender
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Payday Spokesman Who Once Labeled Industry Risky, Claims Borrowers Have Few Complaints
Study shows majority of payday consumers feel taken advantage of by payday lenders and nearly 3/4’s of borrowers support more regulation of industry.
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Florida Progressives Support CFPB’s Payday Reforms, Apparently Alcee Hastings Didn’t Get the Memo
Just last week Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Patrick Murphy abandoned their support for the “Florida model” in favor of the CFPB’s approach.
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Hensarling’s Revolving Door
How the House Financial Services Committee has become an industry revolving door with many staffers either investing in or having taken junkets from the financial industry.
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Payday Lender Whose Company Violated Laws Says ‘Don’t Compare Us with Lenders Who Break Laws’
His company has a history of violating state laws, including the laws of the very state the CFPB hearing was held in where he made his statement.