消费者金融保护局的成立是金融危机之后美国金融消费者保护机制的一大发展。保护局具有独立的法律地位,体现在人事、财政和管理等诸多方面。保护局的总体目标是通过实施联邦消费者金融法,确保所有消费者均可在公平、透明和竞争性的市场上获得消费者金融产品和服务,为此其享有包括制定和实施相关规则在内的广泛监管权力。作为一家全新的联邦监管机构,保护局的监管理念和方法既有对传统监管经验的继承,又有自己的发展和创新。消费者金融保护局的组织和运作模式反映了金融消费者保护方面的国际新趋势,值得认真研究和适当借鉴。
The establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a remarkable development in the US federal financial consumer protection mechanism after the global financial crisis. As a federal agency,CFPB enjoys highly independence in terms of personnel,finance and administration. The overall purpose of CFPB is to implement and enforce federal consumer financial law to ensure that all consumers have access to markets for consumer financial products and services and that those markets are fair,transparent,and competitive. For this purpose,CFPB are vested with broad regulatory powers including promulgating and enforcing regulatory rules. As a nascent agency,CFPB has borrowed from the past experiences of other federal regulatory agencies in formulating its regulatory approaches,but has also made its own development and innovation,as can be seen from its Rules of Practice for Adjudication Proceedings. In summary,the organization and operation of CFPB reflect new international trends in the protection of financial consumers,and merit further research and learning.
Keywords: | Public ParticipationEmpirical AnalysisConsumer Financial Protection BureauThe Federal Consumer Financial Law |