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The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection released the findings of its assessment of the Remittance Rule, which provides protections to international money transfers. The report describes the Rule, the market, and the Bureau’s findings on the Rule’s effectiveness in meeting factors outlined in the Dodd-Frank Act.

Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, federal agencies must publish regulatory agendas twice a year. As an independent regulatory agency, we have been voluntarily participating in the Unified Agenda, which is led by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

As part of the Bureau’s commitment to engage stakeholders in active dialogue about key issues, the Bureau recently held three roundtables to gather feedback about the Requests for Information the Bureau recently issued.

The semiannual update of our rulemaking agenda.

Learn about our work over the past six years to create new consumer financial protections and provide resources to help people make informed financial decisions.

The semiannual update of our rulemaking agenda.

The CFPB will assess the Ability-to-Repay/Qualified Mortgage (ATR/QM) rule. We are seeking comments on our plan for the assessment.

Your feedback and comments will help up improve our assessment.

We’ve finalized a rule to delay the general effective date of the prepaid accounts rule by six months, to April 1, 2018.

The improvements to our policy will help ensure that our rulemaking process continues to be open and fair and allows for candid input from state entities.

We are seeking comment on our proposal to clarify, make technical corrections, and minor changes to the data that financial institutions are required to...

We are seeking comment on our proposal to increase flexibility for mortgage lenders in collecting certain information.

We have released a plan to assess the effectiveness of the remittance rule and are asking the public for comments and information that would help the...

We are seeking comment on a proposal to delay the effective date of the prepaid accounts rule by six months.

The semiannual update of our rulemaking agenda.

Prepaid cards can look and act like other types of cards, but they haven't always had the same protections. Our new rule will help make prepaid cards and...

Today we finalized new changes to our mortgage servicing rules. These updates ensure that mortgage servicers treat homeowners and struggling borrowers...

In the past five years, we have written rules, enforced laws and, supervised banks and other financial companies, while at the same time creating resources...

New data shows payday and similar loans lead to consumers trapped in debt and our proposed rule aims to help those consumers.

An important part of the CFPB's mandate from Congress is to make rules governing consumer finance markets more effective and to create new rules when...

Buried in many contracts for consumer financial products are arbitration clauses that block consumers from seeking relief through class action lawsuits...

Today, we're issuing a final rule delaying the effective date for the Know Before You Owe mortgage disclosure rule to October 3, 2015. The Know Before You...

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...

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...

Today, we're posting a semi-annual update of our rulemaking agenda in conjunction with a broader initiative led by OMB to publish a Unified Agenda of...