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The CFPB filed a proposed order to resolve its lawsuit against Credit Repair Cloud and CEO Daniel Rosen for assisting businesses that charge illegal advance fees to consumers.

The CFPB issued a report finding that some residential solar lenders are misleading homeowners and cramming markup fees into borrowers’ loan balances.

People can submit complaints about solar loans with the CFPB and with other federal and state agencies.

Director Rohit Chopra delivered remarks about preventing predatory lending in the residential solar market.

The CFPB and other federal financial regulatory agencies announced a joint proposed rule to establish data standards for certain information collections submitted to financial regulatory agencies.

Director Rohit Chopra outlined recent efforts to combat price gouging and unfair practices in financial services, focusing on private equity involvement, junk fees, and credit card interest rates.

When a Wall Street bank repeatedly violates the law, the banking agencies impose a fine that typically constitutes a small fraction of the firm's annual profits.

There’s no question that our economy and society rely on banks just like we rely on our power grid and our transportation network. Congress put in place guardrails to ensure the ownership and control of this critical infrastructure promotes resiliency and is free of conflicts of interest.

Industrial banks require special attention from the FDIC Board of Directors given the unique risks they pose.

Regulatory amnesia consistently afflicts the banking agencies. Today, the FDIC Board of Directors is cleaning up the unwise and unlawful mistakes the agency made in 2020 related to a risky type of deposit funding.

The United States recently renewed its special ties with the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau, collectively the Freely Associated States.

The CFPB sued a group of companies known as Acima for illegal lending activities in connection with as many as five million consumer financing agreements.

The CFPB released a report on payment processing companies that help school districts process children’s school lunch payments.

The CFPB issued a circular explaining how companies may break the law by requiring employees sign broad nondisclosure or confidentiality agreements that deter whistleblowing.

Five federal regulatory agencies today issued final guidance addressing reconsiderations of value (ROVs) for residential real estate transactions.

The CFPB proposed an interpretive rule explaining that many paycheck advance products are consumer loans subject to the Truth in Lending Act.

Six federal regulatory agencies today issued a final rule, pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, designed to help ensure the credibility and integrity of models used in valuations for certain mortgages secured by a consumer’s principal dwelling.

Director Chopra joined an event hosted by Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo to announce a series of steps that the U.S. government and the financial sector are taking to safeguard risks to the financial system with respect to cloud service providers. The transcript has been slightly edited for clarity.

Director Chopra delivered remarks on a press call to discuss the CFPB’s proposed interpretive rule on emerging paycheck advance comments.

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) today published data on 2023 mortgage lending transactions reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) by 5,113 U.S. financial institutions, including banks, savings associations, credit unions, and mortgage companies.

The CFPB proposed new rules to make it easier for homeowners to get help when they are struggling to pay their mortgage.

Since late 2021, the CFPB has been analyzing the various vectors where fraud is being perpetrated today and is identifying the new ways where we expect fraud to be perpetrated in the future. Addressing these will require a range of policy tools and private-sector action.

The CFPB took action against repeat offender Fifth Third Bank for a range of illegal activities that would result in the bank paying millions in penalties as well as paying redress to harmed consumers.

The CFPB published an edition of Supervisory Highlights sharing findings from examinations of auto and student loan servicers, debt collectors, medical payment products, and deposit and prepaid accounts.

Borrower survey of mortgage originations