CFPB Deputy Director to Leave Bureau

Raj Date, deputy director of the ""Consumer Financial Protection Bureau"":http://www.consumerfinance.gov/, is moving on from the agency at the end of January 2013, according to a report from ""_The Wall Street Journal_"":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323551004578116901565158098.html?KEYWORDS=cfpb.

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A CFPB spokesperson told _WSJ_ Date plans to leave the bureau ""after the CFPB finalizes the slate of mortgage rules Congress mandated.""

Date ran the CFPB until Elizabeth Warren's departure from the bureau in 2011. His leadership lasted until January 2012, when President Obama named Richard Cordray as director in a controversial recess appointment. Cordray appointed Date as deputy director the following day.

The spokesperson added that after spending ""more than two years building the agency at a breakneck pace,"" Date has ""no current plans for his career after the CFPB, other than to spend more time with his family.""

A replacement for his position has not yet been named.