Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Issues Final HMDA Rule to Provide Relief to Smaller Institutions
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) today issued a rule which finalizes certain aspects of its May 2019 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking under the Home Mortgage Disclosure…
Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Paraguayan Foreign Minister Arriola
The following is attributable to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met yesterday with Paraguayan Foreign Minister Julio Arriola. Secretary Blinken noted that Paraguay is…
CFPB Announces Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) today announced that it will establish a taskforce to examine ways to harmonize and modernize federal consumer financial laws. The Taskforce…
FTC, Justice Department, and European Commission Hold Third U.S.- EU Joint Technology Competition Policy Dialogue
Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, and Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager of the European Commission met today in…
Targeting Syrian and Lebanese Illicit Drug Traffickers
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s family members and associates rely on the illicit drug trade to fund his regime’s violent oppression and abuse of the Syrian people. Today, the United States…
CFPB Private Education Loan Ombudsman Issues 2019 Annual Report
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) Private Education Loan Ombudsman issued today the 2019 Annual Report showing that from September 1, 2017 through August 31, 2019 the…
The United States Convenes Freedom Online Coalition Member States and Other Stakeholders in Washington, D.C.
On March 27-28, the United States, as the 2023 chair of the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC), convened the Coalition’s 36 member States, Observers, and Advisory Network of external stakeholders for…
CFPB to Host Symposium on November 6
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) announced today that it will hold a symposium on Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act on November 6, 2019 at 9:30…
Putin’s Bunkers – where is he hiding? by Lyubov Sobol (@SobolLyubov )
There is a lot of pro-Putin bias in the Western world. We aim to dispel this “macho” propaganda and reveal true colors of his regime: murder, intimidation, industrialized kleptocracy and…
2023 Roadmap for the Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Online Harassment and Abuse
The Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Online Harassment and Abuse (Global Partnership) is a commitment from the first Summit for Democracy, and an action coalition of the Denmark Tech…