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Today, we’re announcing that this fellowship, formerly known as the Louis D. Brandeis Honors Attorney Program, will be renamed the Joseph Story Honors Attorney Program.

The fellowship is a two year program for developers, designers, data specialists, and cybersecurity professionals who want to further our mission of making financial products and services work for consumers. If you’re ready to serve the public and help us build amazing things, learn more and apply now.

A message from Director Cordray

We’re recruiting examiners – our “boots on the ground” within our supervision team – to work daily with large banks and nonbank companies to ensure compliance with consumer financial protection laws and to promote a market for fair, transparent, and competitive consumer financial products and services. Apply before midnight on Friday, March 22. Our consumer-centered […]

Our regional directors in CFPB’s Office of Supervision Examinations serve consumers from coast to coast. These dynamic individuals come from both the private and public sectors and bring extensive knowledge of consumer financial protection and regulatory compliance. They are the face of the CFPB across the country. Edwin Chow, West Region: Edwin is one of […]

We’re recruiting summer interns for our Pathways Program again. If you’re interested in the mission of the CFPB, read the full posting to learn more and apply. The deadline is midnight on Wednesday, December 5. That’s tomorrow! We’ve asked the Student Ambassadors, former CFPB interns, to share what inspired them to intern with the CFPB […]

We’re recruiting summer interns for our Pathways Program again. If you’re interested in the mission of the CFPB, read the full posting to learn more and apply. The deadline is midnight on Wednesday, December 5. We’ve asked the Student Ambassadors, former CFPB interns, to share what inspired them to intern with the CFPB and why […]

We’re recruiting summer interns for our Pathways Program again. If you’re interested in the mission of the CFPB, read the full posting to learn more and apply. The deadline is midnight on Wednesday, December 5. We’ve asked the Student Ambassadors, former CFPB interns, to share what inspired them to intern with the CFPB and why […]

It’s time to recruit summer interns for our Pathways Program again. If you’re interested in the mission of the CFPB, read the full posting to learn more and apply. The original deadline was midnight on Monday, December 3. We’ve extended it to Wednesday, December 5. The Pathways Program is a ten week summer internship program […]

Technology and innovation are fundamental to the ability of this 21st-century agency to achieve our consumer protection mission. That’s why we’re launching an outside-the-box technology hiring initiative – the Design+Technology Fellows program.

What is it? We’re asking the brightest, diverse, most amazing minds in graphic design, development, and user experience (UX) to join us for two years, linking up with our divisions to create innovative products that will redefine how work gets done in consumer financial protection.

Learn more.
Apply for a Design+Technology Fellowship.

Today is my first day as the Director of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion at the CFPB. I’m coming to the CFPB after serving nine years at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Commission). There I worked to protect the public from unlawful discrimination and harassment in all work situations.

I came to the CFPB because I know this is a place that shares those same values. Here we have a team that understands that to help all consumers we need to have a wide range of perspectives in-house. Our Office of Minority and Women Inclusion will work to ensure that diversity and inclusion are more than just considerations; they are defining standards for the work we do.

Since we opened for business on July 21, 2011, we have been building our supervision team.

On Friday, April 27 in Cleveland and Friday, May 4 in New York, learn from senior CFPB leadership about the work of our supervision team, and explore joining us. Read more.

In the months since the CFPB officially opened its doors, the Bureau has been moving at full speed to engage consumers and bring greater transparency to the financial marketplace. We’ve been hard at work building our consumer response system, creating our Know Before You Owe campaigns, and forming a strong foundation for our supervision, examination, […]

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 […]

Greetings. I’m Skip Humphrey, and I’m excited to begin work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as the head of the Office of Older Americans. I grew up in a household where it wasn’t enough to just have a point of view. My parents taught me that if I had a problem, I needed […]

The CFPB is building an Office of Research to support its commitment to evidence-based policymaking. The research office will produce new findings that deepen our understanding of the problems that consumers, firms, and markets encounter. It will also help the CFPB conduct rigorous policy evaluations, which in turn will help maximize our effectiveness in addressing […]

I’ve just joined the CFPB as the Associate Director for Consumer Education and Engagement. I come from outside Washington, D.C., and from outside government. I moved across the country to do this job because, like my colleagues, I believe in the mission of the CFPB. That mission is to promote a fair, transparent, and competitive […]

We’re looking for highly motivated individuals who want to make a difference and be part of an important mission: helping consumers. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a brand-new 21st century agency with responsibility for making markets for consumer financial products and services work for Americans. To help carry out that mission, we will supervise […]

Each day this week, we will feature information about an important milestone in the establishment of the new consumer bureau. Today’s post is about our new HR system. Read more of this series. The Dodd-Frank Act created the CFPB as an independent bureau within the Federal Reserve System. Many steps must be taken before the […]

Each day this week, we will feature information about an important milestone in the establishment of the new consumer bureau. Today’s post is about staffing up the bureau. Read more of this series. The CFPB is a brand-new government agency, and all new things have to start somewhere. In the case of the consumer bureau, […]

Each day this week, we will feature information about an important milestone in the establishment of the new consumer bureau. Today’s post is about our temporary home. Read more of this series. In October, the CFPB implementation team moved out of office space spread across three buildings in and around the main Treasury Department headquarters […]

We’ve had a fun, busy day: launching the website, checking out suggestions as they come in and rounding up a few of our staffers to respond to your suggestions. And now we’ve just posted the first of these Open for Suggestions response videos. Rich Cordray, the leader of our Enforcement team, responds to a suggestion […]