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Why Regulation Won’t Fix Credit Reporting Agencies

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has strongly hinted that the agency she birthed in 2008 and opened for business in 2011 — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — should be given the authority to do even more. Since 2012, the CFPB’s consumer complaint database has collected 1.1 So, What’s the Problem? They are not.

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Changing The Direction Of Debt Collection

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Debt collectors have been the second-leading major generator of consumer complaints since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) added them as an area that consumers could log complaints against in June 2013.

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