CFPB Monitor is a blog focused exclusively on important goings-on at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the independent consumer financial regulatory and enforcement agency created by the Dodd-Frank Act. The blog is produced by members of Ballard Spahrs Consumer Financial Services Group, a practice with a national reputation for excellence in representing financial companies of all kinds in new product development, regulatory compliance, enforcement, litigation defense and avoidance, and ground-breaking pre-dispute arbitration programs.