Consumer Bureau Deputy Date Plans Departure From Agency

Raj Date, the deputy director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is leaving the agency at the end of January, Jen Howard, a bureau spokeswoman said in an e-mail.

Date, a former banker who ran the agency from August 2011 to early January, was an early hire to the bureau in the fall of 2010. During the debate over the Dodd-Frank law that created the agency, he had argued for it alongside Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard University law professor who subsequently became an Obama administration adviser charged with setting up the bureau.