Truth in Lending Act

Loren Berlin

Agency Backs Down In Fight To Limit Credit Card Fees

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Truth in Lending Act, High-Fee Credit Cards, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Cfpb, Credit Cards, Fee-Harvester Credit Cards First Premier Bank, CARD Act, Credit Card Fees, Money News

The government agency tasked with protecting consumers is backing down in its fight to limit credit card fees. The Consumer Financial Protection Bu...

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Ben Hallman

How Do I Get Rid Of My Crap Mortgage?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Richard Cordray, Hsbc, Foreclosure Crisis, Truth in Lending Act, Subprime Mortgages, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Bad Mortgage Case, Foreclosure, Bad Mortgage, Money News

How many hoops do homeowners have to jump through to shake off a bad mortgage? This question is at the heart of a growing area of law as judges acr...

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Fed Pushing To Drop Foreclosure-Fighting Rule

McClatchy | Tony Pugh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Predatory Lending, Federal Reserve, Fed, Truth in Lending Act, Banks, Foreclosure Rate, Foreclosure, The Fed, Ben Bernanke, Business News

As Americans continue to lose their homes in record numbers, the Federal Reserve is considering making it much harder for homeowners to stop foreclosu...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Federal Reserve Adopts Megabanks' Arguments, Warns Against Added Protections For Small Business Credit Card Users

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Small Business, Small Business Lending, Small Business Loans, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Financial Reform, Truth in Lending Act, Credit CARD Act, Credit Cards, Business News

The Federal Reserve warned Congress in a recent report that protecting small businesses from the kind of "harmful" credit card practices it prohibits ...

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New Rules: Federal Reserve to Start Doing a Tad More of Their Job with New Credit Card Rules

Damien Hoffman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Reserve, Credit Cards, Truth in Lending Act, Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Elizabeth A. Duke, Truth-in-Lending-Act, Ben Bernanke, Consumer Protection, Consumer Protection Bill, Business News
Damien Hoffman

Today the Fed has amended the Truth in Lending regulation "to protect credit card users from unreasonable late payment and other penalty fees and to require credit card issuers to reconsider increases in interest rates."

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Bernanke Must Answer for Dark of Night Change in Bank Regs

David Segal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Truth in Lending Act, Senate, Predatory Lending, Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve, Overdraft Fees, Banks, Ben Bernanke, Overdraft Protection, Chris Dodd, Financial Regulation, TILA, Politics News
David Segal

In its new regulations, the Fed did Americans a huge disservice, doing away with consumers' potential right of recovery of overdraft charges -- which will total nearly $37.5 billion in 2009 alone.

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