U.S. Credit Reporting System Needs Immediate Comprehensive Reform
Written by Christine Hines, Legislative Director. Source: NACA letter to U.S. House Committee on Financial Services The U.S. credit reporting system has longstanding problems independent of Equifax’s notorious data breach…
Read More about U.S. Credit Reporting System Needs Immediate Comprehensive ReformDecember 2018 Letter from Board Co-Chairs
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Read More about December 2018 Letter from Board Co-ChairsFintech Brings New Options and a Lingering Old Problem for Consumers
Written by Christine Hines, Legislative Director Fintech Brings New Options and a Lingering Old Problem for Consumers Financial technology companies are regularly rolling out new products and services made for…
Read More about Fintech Brings New Options and a Lingering Old Problem for ConsumersTaking On the Bail Industry: A Call to Consumer Advocates to Participate in Bail Reform
Guest Blog by Veryl Pow, Skadden Fellow with Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service As a Skadden fellow at a major civil rights organization deploying a consumer law approach to bail reform…
Read More about Taking On the Bail Industry: A Call to Consumer Advocates to Participate in Bail ReformCFPB Deserves a Clear Champion for Consumers at Its Helm
Written by Christine Hines, Legislative Director In July 2011, Richard Cordray—formerly an Ohio Attorney General and Ohio state representative—was nominated by President Barack Obama as director of the burgeoning Consumer Financial…
Read More about CFPB Deserves a Clear Champion for Consumers at Its HelmCFPB Advisory Board Firing Debacle Exposes Insincere RFI Process
Are Public “Requests for Information” Merely a Smokescreen to Feign Legitimacy of Mick Mulvaney’s Disruption of Consumer Agency? Written by Christine Hines, Legislative Director This week, Mick Mulvaney, acting director…
Read More about CFPB Advisory Board Firing Debacle Exposes Insincere RFI ProcessSeeking Due Process for Consumers in Maryland: Protecting Debtors from Body Attachments
Guest Blog by NACA Member Amy Hennen, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service As the Managing Attorney for Housing and Consumer Law at the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS), I oversee all…
Read More about Seeking Due Process for Consumers in Maryland: Protecting Debtors from Body AttachmentsCongress Could Quash Auto Lending Anti-Discrimination Safeguards
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Read More about Congress Could Quash Auto Lending Anti-Discrimination SafeguardsNew Year Message from Ira
A new year brings on new challenges, and there may be no greater challenge for consumer attorneys than the surprise we found in the tax law passed at the end…
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