Consumer Protection And The Credit Crisis

Author : Larry Kirsch,Gregory D. Squires
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781440842436

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Meltdown by Larry Kirsch,Gregory D. Squires Pdf

Meltdown reveals how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was able to curb important unsafe and unfair practices that led to the recent financial crisis. In interviews with key government, industry, and advocacy groups along with deep archival research, Kirsch and Squires show where the CFPB was able to overcome many abusive practices, where it was less able to do so, and why. Open for business in 2011, the CFPB was Congress's response to the financial catastrophe that shattered millions of middle-class and lower-income households and threatened the stability of the global economy. But only a few years later, with U.S. economic conditions on a path to recovery, there are already disturbing signs of the (re)emergence of the high-risk, high-reward credit practices that the CFPB was designed to curb. This book profiles how the Bureau has attempted to stop abusive and discriminatory lending practices in the mortgage and automobile lending sectors and documents the multilayered challenges faced by an untested new regulatory agency in its efforts to transform the broken—but lucrative—business practices of the financial services industry. Authors Kirsch and Squires raise the question of whether the consumer protection approach to financial services reform will succeed over the long term in light of political and business efforts to scuttle it. Case studies of mortgage and automobile lending reforms highlight the key contextual and structural conditions that explain the CFPB's ability to transform financial service industry business models and practices. Meltdown: The Financial Crisis, Consumer Protection, and the Road Forward is essential reading for a wide audience, including anyone involved in the provision of financial services, staff of financial services and consumer protection regulatory agencies, and fair lending and consumer protection advocates. Its accessible presentation of financial information will also serve students and general readers.

Author : Karen Fairweather,Paul O'Shea,Ross Grantham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317158073

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Credit, Consumers and the Law by Karen Fairweather,Paul O'Shea,Ross Grantham Pdf

Consumer law, particularly consumer credit law, is characterised by increasingly complex regulation in Western economies. Reacting to the Global Financial Crisis, governments in the UK, the EU, Australia, New Zealand and the United States have adopted new laws dealing with consumer credit, responsible lending, consumer guarantees and unfair contracts. Drawing together authors from all of these jurisdictions, this book analyses and evaluates these initiatives, and makes predictions as to their likely success and possible flaws.

Author : Therese Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317113744

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International Responses to Issues of Credit and Over-indebtedness in the Wake of Crisis by Therese Wilson Pdf

This book explores the political, economic and regulatory context in which credit regulation is taking place following the global financial crisis. It suggests that current neoliberal economic policies favour multi-national corporations rather than consumers and examines regulatory responses to the internationalization of consumer finance protection. Detailing how EU consumers have been affected by national economic conditions, the book also analyses the lending regimes of Europe, Australia, the US and South Africa and offers suggestions for responsible lending to avoid over-indebtedness and corrupt mortgage-lending. Finally, new approaches and directions for consumer credit regulations are outlined, such as protection for small businesses, protection against risky credit products, reorganization of mortgage securitization and the possibility of a partnership model to address financial exclusion. The book includes contributions from leading names in the field of consumer law and will be invaluable to those interested in banking, business and commercial law.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822036283281

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Consumer Protection and the Credit Crisis by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Pdf

Author : Lisa Kastner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351798136

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Civil Society and Financial Regulation by Lisa Kastner Pdf

Coalitions of consumer groups, NGOs, and trade unions have traditionally been considered politically weak compared to well-organized and resourceful financial sector groups which dominate or "capture" financial regulatory decisions. However, following the 2008 financial crisis, civil society groups have been seen to exert much more influence, with politicians successfully implementing financial reform in spite of industry opposition. Drawing on literature from social movement research and regulatory politics, this book shows how diffuse interests were represented in financial regulatory overhauls in both the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). Four cases of reform in the post-crisis regulatory context are analyzed: the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the US; the introduction of new consumer protection regulations through EU directives; the failure of attempts to introduce a financial transaction tax in the US; and the agreement of 11 EU member states to introduce such a tax. It shows how building coalitions with important elite allies outside and inside government helped traditionally weak interest groups transcend a lack of material resources to influence and shape regulatory policy. By engaging with a less well-known side of the debate, it explains how business power was curbed and diverse interests translated into financial regulatory policy.

Author : Jantiena Treurniet
Publisher : Nova Snova
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : 1536162272

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Financial Issues by Jantiena Treurniet Pdf

Regulation of the banking industry has undergone substantial changes over the past decade. In response to the 2007-2009 financial crisis, many new bank regulations were implemented pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 or under the existing authorities of bank regulators to address apparent weaknesses in the regulatory regime. Chapter 1 provides a broad overview of selected banking-related issues, including issues related to "safety and soundness" regulation, consumer protection, community banks, large banks, what type of companies should be able to establish banks, and recent market and economic trends. Chapter 2 provides a broad overview of various banking topics--key concepts in banking, overview of regulation, recent banking legislation, and policy issues.Banks generally must comply with a variety of requirements to hold minimum levels of capital. Chapter3 provides a brief overview of these requirements and examines related policy issues. Chapter 4 first provides background information on the consumer data industry and various specialty areas. It then examines one prominent specialty area--consumer scoring--and describes various factors used to calculate credit scores. Next, it provides a general description of the current regulatory framework of the consumer data industry. Finally, the chapter discusses selected policy issues pertaining to consumer data reports. Chapter 5 provides an overview of consumer lending markets, pricing, and legislative efforts designed to facilitate efficient credit allocation and pricing.The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank; P.L. 111-203) established the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) to implement and enforce federal consumer financial law while ensuring consumers can access financial products and services as reported in chapter 6. Chapter 7 reports on the results of the audits of the fiscal years 2017 and 2016 financial statements of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, known as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which is incorporated in the enclosed Financial Report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for Fiscal Year 2017.Chapter 8 provides an overview of how accounting and auditing standards are created and regulated in the private sector, the federal government, and state and local governments

Author : Douglas D Evanoff,William F Moeller
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814590051

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Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act by Douglas D Evanoff,William F Moeller Pdf

In this volume, what are thought to be some of the more important aspects of the Dodd–Frank Act are discussed from a number of perspectives, including that of industry scholars who have been actively involved in evaluating financial regulation, regulators who are responsible for implementing the reform, financial policy experts representing think tanks and banking trade associations, congressmen and congressional staff involved with developing the legislation, and legal scholars. The volume summarizes the act, evaluates how the new regulations are being implemented and how the implementation process is progressing, and discusses modifications that, in the views of the authors, might be needed to more effectively achieve the stated goals of the legislation. Contents:Introduction and Summary of the Act:The Dodd–Frank Act: An Overview (Douglas D Evanoff and William F Moeller)Critical Assessment of the Act:Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd–Frank Act (Matthew Richardson)Financial Stability via Regulation:Financial Stability Regulation (Daniel K Tarullo)Implementing Dodd-Frank: Identifying and Mitigating Systemic Risk (Mark Van Der Weide)Implementing the Dodd–Frank Act: Progress to Date and Recommendations for the Future (Scott D O'Malia)Dodd–Frank Act Implementation: Well Into It and No Further Ahead (Wayne A Abernathy)Financial Stability via Efficient Failure Resolution:We Must Resolve to End Too-Big-To-Fail (Sheila C Bair)The Orderly Liquidation of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Under the Dodd–Frank Act (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)Implementing Dodd–Frank: Orderly Resolution (Martin J Gruenberg)Resolving Globally Active, Systemically Important, Financial Institutions (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England)An Alternative View: Financial Stability via Bank Breakups:Do SIFIs Have a Future? (Thomas M Hoenig)Ending Taxpayer-Funded Bailouts: Dodd–Frank Promises More Than It Can Deliver (Richard W Fisher and Harvey Rosenblum)Solving the Too-Big-To-Fail Problem (William C Dudley)Consumer Protection:Partnering: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and State Attorneys General (Richard Cordray)Prepared Remarks Before the National Association of Attorneys General (Richard Cordray)The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: The Solution or the Problem? (Brenden D Soucy)Was Dodd–Frank Necessary? Needed?:The Financial Crisis and “Too-Big-To-Fail” (Barney Frank and the Minority Staff of the House Financial Services Committee)A Dissent From the Majority Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (Peter J Wallison) Readership: Financial economists, as reading material for beginner to intermediate courses in Finance and Economics for undergraduates and MBA students, general public, and policy makers interested in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010). Key Features:A dynamic read on a very topical and controversial subject — the Dodd-Frank ActContributors from various fields and each provides a different perspective of the formation, implementation and improvements for the Dodd-Frank ActBrings together in one volume the relevant people to discuss the most important policy issues affecting the financial services industryCombines both academic and industry positions on the topic in a readable formatKeywords:Dodd-Frank;Financial Regulation;Macroprudential Regulation;Systemic Risk;Volcker Rule;Resolution Authority;Consumer Protection;Central Clearinghouses (CCPs)

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D035772512

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Enhanced Consumer Financial Protection After the Financial Crisis by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Pdf

Author : Hans-W. Micklitz,Irina Domurath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317161264

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Consumer Debt and Social Exclusion in Europe by Hans-W. Micklitz,Irina Domurath Pdf

This book analyses the dichotomy between the goal of social inclusion and the effect of social exclusion through over-indebtedness since 2008 in Europe. Filling a vital gap in the current literature on the effects of the financial and economic crisis, this volume puts into context academic discussion with the real-life dimension of over-indebtedness. Reports from six European countries provide socio-economic and legal information on over-indebtedness as well as the regulatory and judicial responses to the problems entailed by over-indebtedness. They form the empirical background for five analyses of different aspects of the inclusion-exclusion dichotomy. It becomes clear that in the context of credit expansion, individual over-indebtedness has turned into a social issue, which the current design of the consumer credit and mortgage system in Europe has helped to produce while disregarding the consequential danger of social exclusion.

Author : Mallory E. SoRelle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226711829

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Democracy Declined by Mallory E. SoRelle Pdf

As Elizabeth Warren memorably wrote, “It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to refinance an existing home with a mortgage that has the same one-in-five chance of putting the family out on the street.” More than a century after the government embraced credit to fuel the American economy, consumer financial protections in the increasingly complex financial system still place the onus on individuals to sift through fine print for assurance that they are not vulnerable to predatory lending and other pitfalls of consumer financing and growing debt. In Democracy Declined, Mallory E. SoRelle argues that the failure of federal policy makers to curb risky practices can be explained by the evolution of consumer finance policies aimed at encouraging easy credit in part by foregoing more stringent regulation. Furthermore, SoRelle explains how angry borrowers’ experiences with these policies teach them to focus their attention primarily on banks and lenders instead of demanding that lawmakers address predatory behavior. As a result, advocacy groups have been mostly unsuccessful in mobilizing borrowers in support of stronger consumer financial protections. The absence of safeguards on consumer financing is particularly dangerous because the consequences extend well beyond harm to individuals—they threaten the stability of entire economies. SoRelle identifies pathways to mitigate these potentially disastrous consequences through greater public participation.

Author : Stefan Grundmann,Ye?im M. Atamer
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041135261

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Financial Services, Financial Crisis and General European Contract Law by Stefan Grundmann,Ye?im M. Atamer Pdf

Speculation is rife on the origins of the worldwide financial crisis of 2008, with a preponderance focusing on alleged shortcomings in corporate governance. This book offers a distinct yet complementary perspective: that the most useful path to follow, if we want to understand what happened and forestall its happening again, is through an analysis of contract relationships - specifically, banking contracts entered into in the financial services sector, considered under the rubric of contract law rather than company law. Because banking is the area of European contract law which is most thoroughly developed, banking contracts can be seen as paradigmatic of typical assumptions and shortcomings often examined in the more general debate on contract law. And indeed, the very thoroughness of European banking contract law makes it a promising ground on which to build effective preventive measures. In this book thirteen noted scholars, recognizing that modern contract law must take into account global markets and risks, consider banking contracts within networks and within mass transactions. Always attending to the long-term relationships that characterize financial services contracts, they focus on such cross-sector issues as the following: rule-setting and the question of who should best regulate and at which level; networks of contracts as the backbone of a market economy; the complex interplay between market regulation and traditional contract law; avoiding erroneous assumptions about the future development of prices; the passing on of the risk via securitization; rating relationships affected by conflicts of interests; remuneration problems; core duties of information and advice in an agency relationship in services; fiduciary duties of loyalty and care; types of clients and level of protection; differentiation in information available on various markets; and the question of enforcement.

Author : Johanna Niemi,Iain Ramsay,William C. Whitford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847315229

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Consumer Credit, Debt and Bankruptcy by Johanna Niemi,Iain Ramsay,William C. Whitford Pdf

After a long period of prosperity and steady economic growth, the world's leading economies are now in crisis, and although there will be debate about its origins, the scale and seriousness of the crisis is in no doubt. There is also no doubt that excessive amounts of consumer credit, allied to a weak understanding of how globalised credit markets might react to a crisis, have played a significant part. This book, which is primarily about credit, debt and the trouble they have led to, is written by authors who have specialised in researching into over-indebtedness, that is, situations in which an individual's debt burden has become overwhelming. For these authors the plight of individuals is a primary concern, but the wider issue is how credit is used and how it changes societies. The essays in this volume, addressing topics which are fundamental to our understanding of the current crisis, range widely across the whole sector of consumer finance, including mortgages, 'credit-binges', the regulation of consumer lending, insolvency, repayment plans, debt counselling and much more besides. The conclusions drawn from the book are equally wide-ranging, but above all the lesson learned from these essays is that the financialisation of contemporary life ensures that issues of the appropriate role of credit remain of critical importance in society.

Author : Hester Peirce,James Broughel,J. W. Verret
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Financial institutions
ISBN : 098360777X

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Dodd-Frank by Hester Peirce,James Broughel,J. W. Verret Pdf

More than 360,000 words in length, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is the longest and most complex piece of financial legislation in American history. The nature and magnitude of its effects, both intended and unintended, will become clearer as regulators exercise the broad discretion given to them under the law. In this new book, the contributors ask whether the law is an effective response to the financial crisis that so deeply rattled our nation. Taking a hard look at the law's celebrated objectives, they reveal that it not only fails to achieve many of its stated goals, it also creates dangerous regulatory pathologies that could lay the groundwork for the next crisis.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Consumer protection
ISBN : UOM:39015090376982

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Consumer Protections in Financial Services by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D03556765O

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Consumer Protection and Middle-class Wealth Building in an Age of Growing Household Debt by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Pdf