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What you should know about identity theft
Identity theft?appropriating someone else?s identity for illicit gain?is the fastest-growing financial crime. It can cause considerable financial losses, and cleaning up a trashed credit history can be time consuming and frustrating. This Economic Commentary examines the identity theft phenomenon?how it works, how lawmakers, regulators, and financial institutions are combating it, and what consumers can do to protect themselves.
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Release of a report on a survey of web site privacy
Journal Article
Consumer guide to nontraditional mortgages published
Journal Article
Agencies adopt consumer protection rules for insurance sales
Journal Article
A Summary of Consumer Protection Regulatory Changes
Many regulatory changes go into effect in 2009 and 2010 as the government works to increase the knowledge of consumers who are shopping for credit.
Journal Article
Consumers and credit disclosures: credit cards and credit insurance
Under the Truth in Lending Act, the Federal Reserve has the responsibility for writing the implementing rules, which it has carried out with its Regulation Z. Because this law is so critical for federal consumer protection policy in the credit area and because it imposes significant compliance costs on creditors, questions have been raised about consumers' use of the protections inherent in Truth in Lending. Even though measurement of the precise effect of particular disclosure requirements on credit-use behavior or competition is problematic, one can study consumers' reports of their views ...
Conference Paper
Consumer affairs supervision program: introduction and overview