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

The CFPB is exploring long-term solutions to move away from single points of failure, ensure system resilience, and eliminate unnecessary complexity in rulemaking.

Today the CFPB finalized an update to our procedural rule regarding administrative adjudication.

The CFPB is requesting comment on whether it should finalize its preliminary determination that a New York commercial financing law—as well as potentially similar laws in California, Utah, and Virginia—are not preempted by the Truth in Lending Act.

Today, we finalized changes to our procedural rule related to nonbank supervision based on a risk determination.

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.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today that it will extend the deadline for the public to share input and stories on their experiences with exploitative junk fees through April 11, 2022.

Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, Federal agencies must publish regulatory agendas twice a year. CFPB participates in the Unified Agenda process, which is led by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB is proud to celebrate 10 years of protecting consumers, and looks forward to the next decade.

Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, Federal agencies must publish regulatory agendas twice a year. CFPB participates in the Unified Agenda process, which is led by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

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

In furtherance of our mission, I have directed the Division of Research, Markets, and Regulations (RMR) to take some immediate actions, and I want to share my directions publicly.

Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, federal agencies must publish regulatory agendas twice a year. As an independent regulatory agency, we have been voluntarily participating in the Unified Agenda, which is led by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

We are finally leaving 1977 behind and developing a debt collection system that works for consumers and industry in the modern world.

The semiannual update of our rulemaking agenda.

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.

The semiannual update of our rulemaking agenda.

The semiannual update of our rulemaking agenda.

The CFPB has released two reports assessing significant rules.

The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection released the findings of its assessment of the Remittance Rule, which provides protections to international money transfers. The report describes the Rule, the market, and the Bureau’s findings on the Rule’s effectiveness in meeting factors outlined in the Dodd-Frank Act.

The semiannual update of our rulemaking agenda

As part of the Bureau’s commitment to engage stakeholders in active dialogue about key issues, the Bureau recently held three roundtables to gather feedback about the Requests for Information the Bureau recently issued.

The semiannual update of our rulemaking agenda.

In observance of six years serving consumers, here are six ways the CFPB has made consumers count. 

The semiannual update of our rulemaking agenda.