When scores of debt-collection lawyers descend on Washington this week for a trade association meeting, they’ll find one agency open that many may wish was closed: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
In the past year, the bureau, which is independently funded by the Federal Reserve and still open despite the shutdown, has begun overseeing lawyers who represent banks, credit card issuers, automobile finance companies and other creditors in collecting overdue payments from consumers.
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