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The CFPB releases its Fair Lending Annual Report to Congress, describing its fair lending activities in enforcement and supervision; guidance and rulemaking; interagency coordination; and outreach and education for calendar year 2022.

The CFPB filed an amicus brief to protect consumers’ right to challenge discrimination under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.

Hemos introducido una Declaración de Interés junto al Departamento de Justicia para proteger a compradores y propietarios de viviendas de tasaciones discriminatorias.

Estamos tomando un nuevo paso para asegurar que las decisiones tomadas por modelos automáticos, a veces mercadeadas como inteligencia artificial, sean responsables.

Today, the CFPB is taking another step toward ensuring accountability for automated decision models, sometimes marketed as artificial intelligence (AI).

This week, we filed a Statement of Interest to protect people from discriminatory targeting.

This week, the CFPB filed a joint Statement of Interest with the Department of Justice to protect homebuyers and homeowners from discriminatory appraisals.

The CFPB joins with other regulators in asking The Appraisal Foundation to clearly instruct appraisers about the federal law forbidding appraisal discrimination.

Nos hemos unido a otros reguladores para pedirle a la Fundación de la Tasación que instruya a los tasadores sobre la ley federal que prohíbe la discriminación.

The CFPB is working to identify and address the financial needs of immigrant consumers.

This report describes our fair lending activities in supervision, enforcement, guidance and rulemaking, interagency coordination, and outreach and education for calendar year 2021.

Vigorous enforcement of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act is essential for us to achieve broader equity and opportunity. The CFPB will prioritize enforcement of the Act to ensure that no one is discriminated against with respect to any aspect of a credit transaction.

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.

The CFPB joins with other regulators in asking The Appraisal Foundation to clearly instruct appraisers about the federal law forbidding appraisal discrimination.

Release of report outlining diversity and inclusion based on public facing data and information reported to the Bureau.

This week CFPB partnered with other agencies to oppose a dangerous threat to our nation’s civil rights laws, specifically related to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, or ECOA.

The CFPB encourages programmers, data scientists and others with knowledge of the algorithms and technologies used by companies, and who know of potential discrimination or other misconduct within our authority, to report it to the CFPB.

The CFPB hosted a roundtable to discuss biases that come from home valuations, and explored how to remedy the problem.

This report describes our fair lending activities in supervision, enforcement, guidance and rulemaking, interagency coordination, and outreach and education for calendar year 2020.

The CFPB is taking steps to help create real and sustainable changes in our financial system so that African Americans and other minorities have equal opportunities to build wealth and close the economic divide.

This report describes our fair lending activities in innovation, outreach, prioritization, guidance and rulemaking, supervision, and enforcement for calendar year 2019.

This report on the Bureau’s September 17th, 2018 Building a Bridge to Credit Visibility Symposium summarizes the panel discussions that took place during the event and highlights the key themes that stood out from those conversations.

This report describes our fair lending activities in supervision, enforcement, guidance and rulemaking, interagency coordination, and outreach for calendar year 2018.

The Bureau’s annual Fair Lending Report to Congress highlights 2017 work to promote fair, equitable, and nondiscriminatory access to credit.

Here’s what you need to know to get money from the settlement with BancorpSouth Bank for alleged mortgage lending discrimination against African-American consumers.