The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the "CFPB") recently went live with a telephone hotline and email address for tipsters and whistleblowers with information about potential violations of federal consumer financial laws, with an online tips portal to be launched early in 2012. "Tips will help inform Bureau strategy, investigations, and enforcement," said Richard Cordray, Assistant Director of Enforcement for the CFPB.

The Consumer Financial Protection Act (the "CFPA"), Title X of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank Act"), enacted strong anti-retaliation protections for employees of consumer financial product and service companies who are retaliated against for disclosing information concerning fraudulent or unlawful conduct relating to a consumer financial product or service.

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