consumer financial protection bureau

Colorado joins more legal battles against Trump’s orders

Feb 20, 2025

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Thelma Grimes

Colorado will join two more lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s executive orders. This brings the total to nine the total lawsuits Colorado officials or entities have pursued against Trump since the new president took office in January. Separately, at least one lawsuit has been filed against the state of Colorado, seeking to reverse its “sanctuary”…
Denver preparing to beef up consumer protection, Mayor Hancock says

Mar 16, 2018

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Kristen Meriwether, Colorado Politics

Consumers in the city of Denver will soon get more help to stay protected against fraud. Thursday Mayor Michael Hancock announced a Consumer Financial Protection Initiative aimed at curbing predatory financial practices in the city. The initiative will focus on elder financial abuse, immigration fraud, wage theft, predatory lending and housing practices. “We are going…
SLOAN: Who’s regulating the regulators?

Dec 12, 2017

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Kelly Sloan

One Monday last month in Zimbabwe, long-time dictator Robert Mugabe woke up to be told, much to his chagrin, that he no longer dictated. It was in fact quite unclear who did, a coup having taken place over the weekend, spurred by revelations of political maneuvering by Mugabe to ensure his wife would inherit the…
Colorado ranks 9th for financial services complaints by older residents

Oct 20, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Older Coloradans are among the most aggrieved in the country about credit reports, mortgages, credit cards and other financial services, according to a study released this week. “Older Consumers in the Financial Marketplace” was compiled by the Colorado consumer group CoPIRG Foundation and the Frontier Group, a left-leaning advocacy organization. Colorado ranked ninth for the…
Complaint charges Democrat Levi Tillemann went beyond ‘testing the waters’ while exploring congressional run

Jul 21, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A former Democratic elected official is accusing Levi Tillemann, an Aurora Democrat, of acting as a congressional candidate when he was operating an exploratory committee to determine whether to challenge U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a five-term Republican, in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District. But Tillemann, one of three Democrats running for the swing seat, said his…
Forced arbitration with banks isn’t dead yet, but Colorado consumer watchdogs say let it die

Jul 21, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Republican leaders in the U.S. House and Senate Thursday set in motion a plan to force people possibly wronged by banks into arbitration and keep them out of courtrooms, just like in the old days before this month. Let’s back up a few steps. In 2010 Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer…
Perlmutter criticizes Dodd-Frank rewrite now slated for House vote

May 22, 2017

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Adam McCoy, special to Colorado Politics

A Republican-led effort to rewrite the rules of the massive, post financial crisis measure Dodd-Frank is slated for a full House vote in June, despite Democrat’s effort – among them U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter – to derail the legislation in committee. At odds are Perlmutter’s contention that the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection…
Tipton: The CFPB goes against government of the people, by the people

Mar 28, 2017

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Scott Tipton

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was created by the Dodd-Frank Act as an independent agency within the Federal Reserve System, with the purpose of regulating consumer financial products. The core mission of the CFPB, protecting consumers from bad actors, is important, but we should all be concerned about the unconstitutional structure of the Bureau.…