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Category: Data, research, and reports | Category: Info for consumers |
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Sus voces guían nuestro trabajo

Esta semana hemos alcanzado los tres millones de quejas contenidas en nuestra base de datos pública. Esta acumulación de quejas representa 10 años de trabajo compartiendo las experiencias de los consumidores, para aumentar así nuestra transparencia y crear responsabilidades frente al público al clarificar los problemas que enfrentan los consumidores.

Category: Data, research, and reports | Category: Info for consumers |
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Your voices help drive our work

Last week, we published the three millionth complaint on the CFPB complaint database. This accumulation of complaints represents ten years of sharing consumers’ experiences to increase transparency and create accountability to the public by clarifying the problems consumers face.

Category: At the CFPB | Category: Info for consumers |
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Consumers Count: Tools and resources for money decisions

Take control of your financial life with these ten tools that can help you make choices at the grocery store, pay your credit card bill, and deal with debt. They can also prepare you for money decisions like buying a home or figuring out how to pay for college.

Category: At the CFPB | Category: Info for consumers |
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Our priorities to ensure a fair marketplace

To protect and help consumers in the financial marketplace, we set priorities to ensure that we tackle the most troubling problems using the best mix of tools available. Today we provided an overview of these goals to the members of our Consumer Advisory Board, and we’d like to share them with you.

Category: At the CFPB |
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We participated in the National Day of Civic Hacking 2015

We participated in multiple National Day of Civic Hacking events this year, with CFPB staff attending events in Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Oakland, Calif. and Burlington, Vt. During the event, participants provided input on our CFPB Owning a Home website and analyzed our public Consumer Complaint Database and our public Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Database.

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You have the right to free, unbiased financial information

If you believe you have the right to free, unbiased financial information, you are not alone – because at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, we agree. It’s our job to provide you with reliable, trustworthy information about the consumer financial marketplace. So, in the past four years we’ve worked hard creating online tools to inform your financial decisions that are truly free – no charges, no ads, no referral fees.

Category: At the CFPB |
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Four years working for you

While our doors have only been open for a short time, our work is helping to create a financial marketplace that works for you. We’re listening to your experiences through the complaints you submit, creating new consumer protections for financial products and services, holding bad actors accountable for breaking the rules, and developing useful tools and resources to empower you to make informed financial decisions. Learn more about how we’re working for you.

Category: At the CFPB |
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Three years of standing up for consumers

We officially opened our doors on July 21, 2011—three years ago today. Since then, we’ve used a range of tools in our toolbox to protect consumers: writing rules of the road, supervising and enforcing those rules, responding to consumer complaints, and much more. Here’s a look at our work so far by the numbers.

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More tools for Spanish speakers

On consumerfinance.gov/es, you can find answers, in plain-language Spanish, to consumers’ most common questions. It’s also our first responsive site – it works beautifully on mobile devices as well as on desktops – in response to research that shows two-thirds of Latinos who are online tend to access the Internet from a mobile device. Read more about our tools in Spanish.

Category: At the CFPB |
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Standing up for consumers

Today, I was appointed by President Obama to serve as the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I am honored by this opportunity to continue my work on behalf of consumers. And I am energized by the responsibilities and challenges facing the Bureau. The importance of this day has less to do with […]