Last week draft legislation to create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency began circulating. This new federal agency's mission would be to stand up for the consumers with respect to financial markets regulation. Among other things, the draft legislation would require the new agency to coordinate with existing regulators such as the SEC and the CFTC , as well as to maintain a central database of customer complaints relating to financial products and services, and to track the resolution of those complaints. This new agency would coordinate rule-making efforts with the SEC and CFTC and imposes requirements for reports on initiates, regulation, and trends in complaints to be sent to the President and Congressional oversight committees. The bill, currently before the House Financial Services Committee, might come before the House in November.

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