CFPB Biggest Threat to Community Banks, AEI Researchers Say
May 20, 2013
The broad and still uncertain powers granted to the CFPB by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act are the biggest threat to community banks, according to an American Enterprise Institute white paper authored by Tanya Marsh and Joseph Norman.The CFPB has been granted broad powers to regulate the offering and provision of consumer financial products or services, the authors said. The limit to those powers, and how those powers may be implemented in regards to community banks, remain uncertain...