U.S. consumer protection agency fields nearly one million complaints

Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said the agency expects to reach 1 million complaints by the end of the week.

"I think (it will be) Thursday," Cordray told the Senate Banking Committee of complaints to the public database that was a tool for investigating customer abuse at Wells Fargo.

(Reporting by Patrick Rucker; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)