The newly created federal bureau regulating consumer protections from the financial sector is considering whether to hire a media monitoring vendor to track issues in the and online outlets like blogs and message boards.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which started on July 21 and was created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis under the Dodd-Frank Act, sought informal proposals from monitoring vendors earlier this month.
The CFPB issued a request for information on Nov. 2 to learn about companies’ capacity to “collect public media information about consumer financial issues” from sources like press releases, news, websites and transcripts, according to the RFI.
The CFPB put out a feeler to hire freelance writers for assignments like online articles and blogs in October.
President Barack Obama tapped former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray to head the CFPB.
Jen Howard left the press secretary post at the Federal Communications Commission in December for the same post at CFPB.