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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a report examining the early effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumer credit.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a new Home Mortgage Disclosure Act analysis of the 2019 HMDA Data. This data article is the second in a series and follows the first article published in June of this year.

The Bureau released the first results from the Making Ends Meet survey.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a report examining recent trends in debt settlement and credit counseling.

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) today announced the availability of data on 2019 mortgage lending transactions at 5,508 U.S. financial institutions covered by the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA).

A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report examining the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic found that consumer credit applications declined substantially in March.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued its Financial Literacy Annual Report for fiscal year 2019.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) released today a report examining the differences between large and small mortgage servicers. The report explores the role servicers of different sizes play in the mortgage market where size is defined by the number of loans serviced.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) released today the results of a pilot study, Planning for tax-time savings, launched with the tax preparation company H&R Block that shows that simple messages encouraging customers to use their prepaid card to save at tax time increased the likelihood that they would do so.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) released a report today that found that more than one-in-four consumers with a credit report have at least one debt in collection by third-party debt collectors.

Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report focusing on mortgages made to first-time homebuyers who are serving in the armed forces or are veterans.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Publishes Assessments of Ability-to-Repay and Mortgage Servicing Rules.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today published the Request for Information (RFI) about the Bureau’s Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs) that was announced as part of Acting Director Mick Mulvaney’s call for evidence last week.

Seeks Public Input on Ways to Better Fulfill Statutory Obligations.

Six-Year Auto Loans Carry Higher Costs and Higher Default Rates than Five-Year Auto Loans.

Bureau Releases Interactive Online Tool to Help Consumers Measure Their Financial Well-Being.

Record Student Debt Spurring Employers to Offer Student Loan Repayment Benefits.

Consumers In Higher-Income Areas More Likely Than Those in Lower-Income Areas to Establish Credit with a Credit Card or Co-Borrower.

Report Also Includes In-Depth Look at Consumer Complaints from North Carolina.

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Project Also Finds Savings Persist After Offers End.

Today, we are releasing our fourth report on this market, which is a study of single-payment auto title loans. Our study analyzed nearly 3.5 million loans...

Majority of Auto Title Loan Business Comes From Borrowers Stuck In Debt for Most of the Year.

Thank you for joining us. From the beginning, the small-dollar lending market, which includes payday loans, has been an area of focus for us at the Bureau...

Repeat Debit Attempts Add Steep, Hidden Cost for Borrowers Yet Typically Fail to Recover Payments Today the Bureau issued a report that found that attempts...