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Category: Data, research, and reports |
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New report explores the impact of credit card line decreases on consumers

Access to credit plays a critical role in financial resiliency, especially during an economic downturn. Credit card companies used credit card line decreases to reduce their credit exposure during the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. New research explores the impact of credit line decrease decisions on consumers.

Category: Director's notebook | Category: Policy and compliance |
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Rethinking the approach to regulations

Markets work best when rules are simple, easy to understand, and easy to enforce. The CFPB is seeking to move away from highly complicated rules that have long been a staple of consumer financial regulation and towards simpler and clearer rules. In addition, the CFPB is dramatically increasing the amount of guidance it is providing to the marketplace, in accordance with the same principles.

Category: At the CFPB |
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New effort focused on financial issues facing rural communities

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has 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.

Category: Director's notebook |
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Bureau takes additional steps to foster an inclusive financial system

I am pleased to announce that the Bureau has published the “Statement Regarding the Provision of Financial Products and Services to Consumers with Limited English Proficiency.” The Statement provides principles and guidelines to inform and assist financial institutions seeking to better serve LEP consumers in non-English languages.

Category: Policy and compliance |
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El CFPB en búsqueda de comentarios formales para mejorar las directrices para servir a consumidores LEP

El CFPB planea desarrollar directrices para la atención a consumidores LEP o con Limitado Manejo del Inglés y para ello, está recibiendo comentarios públicos formales a través de su Solicitud de Información del año 2020 sobre la Ley de Oportunidad Equitativa al Crédito y Regulación B.

Category: Policy and compliance |
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Bureau seeks formal comments to inform forthcoming guidance on serving LEP consumers

The Bureau plans to develop guidance on serving consumers with limited English proficiency (LEP) and welcomes formal public comments through the Bureau’s 2020 Request for Information on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Regulation B.

Category: At the CFPB |
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More CFPB resources available in multiple languages

Consumers who are of limited English proficiency face unique challenges in learning about and accessing financial services. Watch our webinar to learn how CFPB is working to make our resources accessible to everyone.

Category: Info for consumers |
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Ang kahalagahan ng patas at pantay na pag-access sa kredito para sa mga minorya at negosyo na pag-aari ng kababaihan

Ang Bureau ay may pananagutan sa pagtugon sa diskriminasyon sa pagpapahiram, kasama na ang pagpapahiram sa mga kababaihan- at mga negosyo na pagmamay-ari ng minorya, na nag-aplay para sa utang sa panahon ng pandemya ng COVID-19 sa ilalim ng CARES Act.

Category: Data, research, and reports |
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Protecting consumers and encouraging innovation: 2019 Fair Lending Report to Congress

The Bureau is committed to ensuring fair, equitable, and nondiscriminatory access to credit for both individuals and communities. This report describes our fair lending activities in innovation, outreach, prioritization, guidance and rulemaking, supervision, and enforcement for calendar year 2019.

Category: Info for consumers |
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The importance of fair and equitable access to credit for minority and women-owned businesses

The Bureau has a responsibility for addressing lending discrimination, including lending to women- and minority-owned businesses, which apply for credit during the COVID-19 pandemic under the CARES Act.

Category: Info for consumers |
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La importancia del acceso justo y equitativo a crédito para pequeñas empresas en manos de minorías y mujeres

Bajo la Ley CARES, en el CFPB tenemos la responsabilidad de actuar contra la discriminación en el otorgamiento de préstamos a pequeñas empresas, que los soliciten durante la pandemia del COVID-19, y cuyos dueños sean mujeres, o pertenezcan a minorías.

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소수 민족 및 여성 소유 비즈니스의 신용에 대한 공정하고 공평한 접근의 중요성

금융소비자보호국(CFPB: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)은 CARES 법에 따라 코로나 바이러스(COVID-19) 전염병 기간 동안 신용을 신청하는 여성 및 소수 민족 소유 비즈니스에 대한 대출을 포함하여 대출 차별에 대응할 책임이 있습니다.

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Tầm quan trọng của quyền tiếp cận công bằng và bình đẳng với khoản vay dành cho các doanh nghiệp do người dân tộc thiểu số và phụ nữ làm chủ

Cục có trách nhiệm giải quyết tình trạng phân biệt đối xử trong hoạt động cho vay, bao gồm việc cho các doanh nghiệp do phụ nữ và người dân tộc thiểu số làm chủ vay, áp dụng cho khoản vay trong bối cảnh dịch bệnh COVID-19 theo Đạo Luật Hỗ Trợ, Cứu Trợ và An Ninh Kinh Tế Đối Phó Vi-rút Corona (CARES).

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讓少數裔族與婦女所持有的企業擁有公平公正的貸款管道之重要性

本局有責任處理貸款歧視,包括由婦女性與少數裔族所持有的企業於冠狀病毒疫情期間,根據《冠狀病毒援助、紓困和經濟安全法案》(英文簡稱為 CARES 法案)所申請的貸款。