Earlier this week, we issued a memorandum to consumers and industry participants who submitted comments on our Know Before You Owe: Student Loans project...
Today, the Bureau traveled to Birmingham, Ala., for our first field hearing. We gathered to discuss and collect information on payday lending. The payday...
Rich Cordray, the new Director of the CFPB, has recorded a message about the extraordinary privilege he sees in working on behalf of American consumers.
The CFPB is accepting mortgage complaints from consumers who have experienced difficulties in the housing market, including problems related to mortgage...
As the nation’s first federal agency focused on consumer financial protection, we have been hard at work putting procedures and mechanisms in place to protect you from unfair, deceptive, and abusive financial practices.
We've been taking your complaints on credit cards at the CFPB since we officially opened for business on July 21, 2011. Today, we released an interim report...
For shoppers, seeing "November" on the calendar means Black Friday – the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season – is just around the corner. Taking...
We started Know Before You Owe several months ago to make mortgage disclosure forms easy to understand and easy to compare. The idea was and is that people...
Between the increasing cost of higher education and the impact of the financial crisis, students are more reliant than ever on loans to pay for school. With...
As we work to ensure a consumer bureau that's responsive to today's most pressing problems, we've made it a priority to keep one foot firmly planted outside...
Credit card issuers and private student lenders have long had a presence at America's colleges and universities. In fact, there are more than 1,000 special...
On July 21st, our mission officially began. We're ready to carry out our orders – to protect military consumers and their families from illegal financial...
Credit scores are important for consumers. They affect the rate of interest on a mortgage, credit card, or auto loan and can even play a role in whether you...
More than two-thirds of students who go to college borrow money to pay for it. The average graduating senior has over $23,000 in student loan debt. As we...
May is Older Americans Month. In his proclamation for the month, President Obama spoke of honoring the contributions older Americans have made and will...
This is the second in a series of blog posts about the Know Before You Owe project. To stay informed, sign up for e-mail updates. If you were designing a...
Let's say you want to buy a home or refinance your mortgage. You might be in the market to buy today, or you might be planning to do so down the road. You...
Mothers Day provides another opportunity to highlight the importance of financial education for women. Financial insecurity affects all Americans, but women...
Today is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day! This day is partly about the fun children can have in seeing your workplace, but it is also a chance for...
April is National Financial Literacy Month! Read the Presidential Proclamation here. At the CFPB, we're working to raise awareness by offering a few...
The Bureau will bring together under one roof a collection of important consumer protection duties that used to be scattered across the federal government...
If you are a student, the last thing that should be on your mind in the classroom is how you are going to make ends meet over an unexpected credit card fee...