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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a launched a new initiative to focus on financial issues facing rural America. Our effort will initially focus on rural banking deserts, discriminatory and predatory agricultural credit, and manufactured housing.

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

Today, we're accepting applications for membership on all of our advisory groups. We're inviting applications from individuals who can provide us with...

Join us for a Community Bank Advisory Council meeting with Director Cordray where we will discuss mortgages and overdrafts.

We’re extending the application deadline by two weeks. All applications for our CBAC and CUAC must be received by March 14, 2014.

As you have been reading here on the blog, we released the first draft versions of a combined Good Faith Estimate and Truth in Lending disclosure form in...

Since Professor Warren spoke at the Independent Community Bankers of America convention last month, she and I have continued to meet with community banks...

In our first week on the job, Professor Elizabeth Warren set a goal for the new consumer bureau: to reach out to small, independent bankers from all 50...

Last Tuesday morning, Professor Warren spoke to the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) at its Annual Governmental Affairs Conference. CUNA is a trade...

Small financial institutions like community banks and credit unions play key roles in a competitive consumer financial products and services marketplace...