Source: Stacy Cowley, New York Times ( Free Registration )

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will continue to publish its database of consumer complaints about financial companies, ending — for now — a battle over public access to one of the agency’s most powerful tools. “The database is here to stay,” Kathleen Kraninger, the bureau’s director, said Wednesday at ... [Consumer Action's annual Consumer Empowerment Conference] in Rosemont, Ill., outside Chicago.

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