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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau expanded the nation’s largest public database of federal consumer financial complaints on Wednesday. The Consumer Complaint Database now has more than 90,000…

President Obama made two notable personnel announcements on Thursday. First, Mary Jo White, a New York prosecutor that took down John Gotti, will be nominated to be…

The Department of Defense, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission announced the development of a new database to combat consumer financial fraud directed at…

On the same day President Obama announced the nomination of Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB Special Advisor to the Secretary of the…

President Obama announced today he will nominate Richard Cordray as the first director of the newly established Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that officially opens for business this Thursday.…