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I am especially pleased that we were able to work closely and effectively with our colleagues at the OCC, and I appreciate the key role they played in the negotiations,” Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Acting Director Mick Mulvaney said in a statement. “As That is what we did here.”.
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About a year ago, the CFPB, which now goes by the BCFP, dropped the final version of its payday lending regulations. Lenders actually prefer customers who will re-borrow repeatedly,” then-CFPB Executive Director Richard Cordray said after releasing the new regulations last year. Payday loan revenues have plummeted from $9.2
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6), Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting had nothing but praise for acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Mick Mulvaney. ” Otting was also complimentary regarding some of Mulvaney’s decisions while at CFPB, including the reversal of the bureau’s payday rule.
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