Citing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's  "troublesome policy shift away from consumer protection," New York State Department of Financial Services ("DFS") Superintendent Maria T. Vullo issued a statement saying that the DFS will take action to "fill the increasing number of regulatory voids created by the federal government." 

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I am disappointed by the new administration's sudden policy shift, which is clearly intended to undermine necessary national financial services regulation and enforcement

http://www.dfs.ny.gov/about/statements/st1801251.htm

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