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Join us for a Consumer Advisory Board meeting with Director Cordray on Thursday, June 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. CST. During this meeting we will discuss...

Our job is to empower consumers by providing them with the information they need to make the best financial decisions for themselves and their families. As...

Here at the CFPB, we worked with our federal partners at the Securities and Exchange Commission to create a Consumer Advisory and Investor Bulletin on...

An important part of our mandate is to make rules more effective and create new rules when necessary. Today, we're posting a semi-annual update of our...

El verano pasado aprendimos que los adolescentes estadounidenses están en el medio del grupo cuando se trata de educación financiera, en comparación con...

If you have kids, it might surprise you to know that children as young as five years old can be ready to learn about saving and spending. From early...

Today, we're excited to launch our financial coaching initiative. We're cohosting the launch with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the event will take...

Some of these companies, called specialty consumer reporting agencies, compile and sell reports with all kinds of personal data including, but not limited to, the history of your employment, rental, banking, lending, insurance, and criminal background. This includes other public record data such as tax liens, civil suits and bankruptcy data. We’ve got a list of consumer reporting agencies, so you can fact-check them to ensure your personal report data is accurate and complete.

Today, we held a field hearing on student debt in Milwaukee. The hearing featured remarks from Director Richard Cordray, as well as testimony from consumer...

If you are paying back student loans, you are not alone. Over 40 million Americans are repaying more than $1.2 trillion in outstanding student loan debt...

We're announcing settlements with Sprint and Verizon to return $120 million directly to consumers for illegal billing of unauthorized third-party charges...

Everyone should be able to qualify for mortgages they can afford based on their stable income. Our reminder to mortgage lenders should help people who...

In light of recent closures of certain for-profit colleges, we wanted to share some helpful advice to help you navigate the situation.

Join us for a field hearing in Milwaukee on student debt. The hearing will take place on Thursday, May 14 at 10 a.m. CDT.

We're releasing our third annual Fair Lending Report, which details the important strides we have taken over the last year to protect consumers from credit...

We’re announcing an enforcement action against Alabama-based Regions Bank for charging overdraft fees to consumers who had not opted-in for overdraft coverage. We’re requiring Regions Bank to fully refund all affected consumers – hundreds of thousands of consumers have already been refunded $49 million in fees. Learn more about your choices when it comes to overdraft protection programs, as these programs can be costly.

Today, we're releasing our third Snapshot of Complaints Received from Servicemembers, Veterans and their Families. The report details the data and trends...

This expansion builds on the success of last year's launch of Your Money, Your Goals. Since then, we've trained over 2,000 frontline staff in both public...

All three major credit reporting agencies (Experian, Equifax and TransUnion) will now allow nonprofit counselors to share credits reports, as well as the...

Join us for the CFPB Research Conference on May 7-8, 2015. The conference will be focused on high-quality consumer finance research, with academic and...

During this meeting, we'll discuss trends in consumer finance research, the activities of consumer financial protection agencies in other countries, and...

We're announcing an enforcement action against a lender that wrongfully used the logos of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Federal Housing...

Today we're announcing that we filed a lawsuit against a robo-call debt collection operation, including its ringleaders, their companies, and service...

Join us for a Community Bank Advisory Council meeting with Director Cordray where we will discuss credit scores and credit reporting and implications for...

We often hear many questions about how the rulemaking process works. We decided to write a series of posts that explain some key parts of the rulemaking...