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Consumer agency urges standards for financial advisors to seniors
WASHINGTON — Older Americans can be confused by dozens of special designations for financial advisors for seniors, and government officials should set strict standards for training and conduct to prevent abuses, according to a new federal report....Tags: U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumers, Financial and Business Services, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Personal Finance
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Agency wants more rules governing financial advisors for seniors
WASHINGTON -- Older Americans can be confused by dozens of special designations for financial advisors for seniors, and government officials should set strict standards for training and conduct to prevent abuses, according to a federal report released...
Tags: U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumers, Financial and Business Services, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Personal Finance
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Regulators probing alleged mortgage insurance kickback scheme
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are conducting an extensive investigation into an alleged mortgage insurance kickback scheme that pushed up costs for home buyers dating from the mid-1990s. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in disclosing...
Tags: Bribery, Real Estate, Mortgages, Consumers, Punishment
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Feds fine four mortgage insurers $15 million for alleged kickbacks
WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators hit four national private mortgage insurance companies Thursday with a combined $15.4 million in fines to settle allegations of making improper kickbacks to lenders to steer consumer business to them. The fines, which...
Tags: Bribery, Mortgages, Consumers, Ottawa Senators, Punishment
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Political stalemate continues on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Watchdog with Paul MuschickThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a director only because the president went around Congress and seated Richard Cordray through a recess appointment. Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general, was up for nomination again today, and the... -
Senate panel approves Obama nominees to head SEC, consumer bureau
WASHINGTON — A Senate committee on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Mary Jo White's nomination to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, clearing the way for the former federal prosecutor to be confirmed soon as Wall Street's top watchdog....
Tags: Politics, Consumers, Mike Crapo, Mary Schapiro, Mary Jo White
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Top House lawmaker questions validity of consumer bureau funding
WASHINGTON -- A top House lawmaker is questioning the validity of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding, arguing that a recent court decision invalidating some of President Obama's recess appointments could make it unlawful for the agency's...
Tags: Politics, Consumers, Barack Obama, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice
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The Fed's not-so-golden rule
RICHMOND, Va. -- A display case in the lobby of the Federal Reserve Bank here might express humility. The case holds a 99.9 percent pure gold bar weighing 401.75 troy ounces. Minted in 1952, when the price of gold was $35 an ounce, the bar was worth about...Tags: Politics, Labor Markets, Barack Obama, Metal and Mineral, Economy, Business and Finance
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Column: The Fed's not-so-golden rule
A display case in the lobby of the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond might express humility. The case holds a 99.9 percent pure gold bar weighing 401.75 troy ounces. Minted in 1952, when the price of gold was $35 an ounce, the bar was worth about $14,000....Tags: Politics, Labor Markets, The Washington Post, Barack Obama, Metal and Mineral
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Elizabeth Warren's first grilling of regulators is a YouTube hit
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a darling of liberals who has been mentioned as a potential 2016 presidential contender, had kept a deliberately low profile since her election in November. In less than five minutes last week,...
Tags: Scott P. Brown, Trials, Politics, Barack Obama, $700 Billion Bank Bailout (2008)
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Senate Democrats are united against GOP push to weaken consumer bureau
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats said Thursday they were united in opposing Republican efforts to weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and told President Obama they supported the renomination of Richard Cordray to head the agency. "It is...
Tags: Mitch McConnell, Politics, Consumers, Barack Obama, Career and Workplace
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Senate Republicans vow to block consumer bureau chief's nomination
WASHINGTON -- Nearly all Senate Republicans have pledged to block the confirmation of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, adding to the uncertainty about the agency's leadership after a recent court ruling threatening his...Tags: U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Politics, Mitch McConnell, Republican Party, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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