by Jeff Sovern Kate Berry at the American Banker reports on Mulvaney's response to questions about why he fired the advisory board members. The headline reads Mulvaney's defense of CFPB board upheaval: I'm trying to fix leaks. The headline is puzzling, because the Consumer Advisory Board never met with Mulvaney, so it's hard to know […]
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Here, by Ann Baddour, director of the Fair Financial Services Project at Texas Appleseed. Excerpt: When Mick Mulvaney and his leadership team took control of the bureau in November, we on the advisory board tried in good faith to engage with them. We have been sidelined every step of the way. The bureau canceled our scheduled meetings […]
by Jeff Sovern I have long wondered whether Wells Fargo was alone in opening unauthorized accounts or if it other banks did the same. A student reported to me that his bank–not Wells–opened an unauthorized account in his name, and I have heard isolated reports of similar behavior elsewhere. Now Kevin Wack reports in the […]
by Jeff Sovern More and more, the CFPB's acting director, Mick Mulvaney, has made clear that he is not interested in hearing from consumers or their advocates. As Allison reported earlier today, the CFPB has kicked off all the members of its advisory committees, which included industry folks as well as consumer advocates and professors. […]
by Jeff Sovern So Allison Frankel reports for Reuters in a story headlined Fitbit lawyers reveal ‘ugly truth’ about arbitration, judge threatens contempt. Here are the first three paragraphs: At a hearing Thursday in San Francisco federal court, a lawyer for the fitness tracking company Fitbit told U.S. District Judge James Donato that no rational customer would arbitrate a $162 […]
Chen He of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center and Tobias J. Klein of the Tilburg University Department of Econometrics & Operations Research, Center for Economic Research, Law and Economics Center; IZA Institute of Labor Economics; and Netspar, have written Advertising as a Reminder: Evidence from the Dutch State Lottery. Here is the abstract: We use […]
We received the following announcement: The next conference of the International Association of Consumer Law (IACL) will be held at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis on June 13-15, 2019. This is the first time that the conference will be held in the United States, and we are hoping to get a good turnout from consumer law […]
by Jeff Sovern So says the WSJ here. It reports on how one such borrower landed in that position. Meanwhile, the Times reports on How Student Debt Can Ruin Home Buying Dreams. Disturbing articles, especially for those of us in education.
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