And we are fighting against predatory practices by tobacco companies that have targeting our children.
In January of last year, the company settled with 49 states attorneys general who'd started investigating alleged predatory practices at Ameriquest.
You will no longer be subject to all kinds of hidden fees and penalties, or the predatory practices of unscrupulous lenders.
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The heads of Themis Trading, a firm deep in the middle of all this, every day, published another book, Broken Markets: How High Frequency Trading and Predatory Practices on Wall Street are Destroying Investor Confidence and Your Portfolio.
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But critics weren't buying, contending that the retailer could potentially use predatory lending practices, particularly with low-income customers.
Congress first started examining predatory lending practices as far back as February 2007.
This non-bank sector has been the source of some of the most harmful, deceptive, unfair and predatory lending practices.
Participation in the banking system also protects households from theft and reduces their vulnerability to discriminatory or predatory lending practices.
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We passed Wall Street reform that will protect consumers from the kind of predatory lending practices that helped cause this recession.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd called the predatory lending practices "unconscionable and deceptive" at a hearing last week to investigate the subprime mortgage crisis.
Finally, these reforms include a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency to prevent predatory loan practices and other abuses to ensure that consumers get clear information about loans and other financial products before they sign on the dotted line.
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Additionally, 59% said they expect the number of credit card delinquencies will go up in the near future, and 85% believe that the recently enacted federal CARD Act, designed to protect consumers from predatory card industry practices, will in fact prompt card companies to hike rates and lower limits.
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The group says that taken together, these bank practices amount to usury, or charging predatory interest rates.
The CFPB is also investigating deceptive or predatory lending by for-profit colleges and questionable marketing practices by banks and credit card companies on college campuses.
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