Excerpt from The Huffington Post: (click for entire article)
The nation's new cop on the consumer-finance beat is zeroing in on debt collectors and credit reporting companies.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday proposed to add debt collectors and credit bureaus to the list of industries that agency officials can supervise in-person.
The agency gained the power to oversee payday lenders, mortgage companies and private student lenders last month, after President Barack Obama used a recess appointment to install its director. It also can write rules to supervise other big companies.


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