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Category: Press release
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CFPB Report Highlights Costly Credit Cards and Loans Pushed on Patients
Category: Press release
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CFPB Proposes New Consumer Protections for Homeowners Seeking Clean Energy Financing
Category: Office of Research Publication Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing and Consumer Financial Outcomes
Category: Blog
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Adjustable-rate loans are changing, because a widely-used interest rate index expires in June
Category: Press release
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CFPB Issues Rule to Facilitate Orderly Wind Down of LIBOR
Category: Press release
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CFPB Joins Other Financial Regulatory Agencies in Issuing Statement on Completing the LIBOR Transition
Category: Blog
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Office of Research blog: Who gets sued in civil courts? Civil judgments are not evenly distributed
Category: Report Consumer Credit and the Removal of Medical Collections from Credit Reports
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks on the Interagency Enforcement Policy Statement on “Artificial Intelligence”
Category: Press release
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CFPB and Federal Partners Confirm Automated Systems and Advanced Technology Not an Excuse for Lawbreaking Behavior
Category: Testimony
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Written Testimony of James S. Rice, Assistant Director, Office of Servicemember Affairs, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
Category: Blog
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As outstanding credit card debt hits new high, the CFPB is focusing on ways to increase competition and reduce costs
Category: Press release
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CFPB Finalizes Rule to Create a New Data Set on Small Business Lending in America
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra’s Remarks at the NCRC Just Economy Conference
Category: Press release
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CFPB Issues Determination that State Disclosure Laws on Business Lending are Consistent with the Truth in Lending Act
Category: Press release
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CFPB Enhances Tool to Promote Competition and Comparison Shopping in Credit Card Market
Category: Blog
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CFPB starting mandated review of mortgage loan originator rules
Category: Report Issue Spotlight: Public Benefits Delivery & Consumer Protection
Category: Blog
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Why the largest credit card companies are suppressing actual payment data on your credit report
Category: Press release
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CFPB Proposes Rule to Rein in Excessive Credit Card Late Fees
Category: Director's statement
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Director Chopra’s Remarks on Press Call for Credit Card Late Fees NPRM
Category: Blog
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Office of Research blog: Credit score transitions during the COVID-19 pandemic
Category: Press release
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CFPB Seeks Public Input on Consumer Credit Card Market
Category: Office of Research Publication Making Ends Meet in 2022: Insights from the CFPB Making Ends Meet survey
Category: Blog
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Update on state laws on lending to businesses
Category: Blog
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Protecting borrowers’ control over their money
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 28, Fall 2022
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks at Money 20/20
Category: Press release
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CFPB Report Finds High Fees Charged on Student Banking Products Endorsed by Colleges
Category: Report 2022 College banking and credit card agreements
Category: Office of Research Publication Data Point: 2021 Mortgage Market Activity and Trends
Category: Report Buy Now, Pay Later: Market trends and consumer impacts
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra’s prepared remarks on the release of the CFPB’s Buy Now, Pay Later report
Category: Office of Research Publication Consumer Finances in Rural Appalachia
Category: Blog
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Why we’re modernizing how we collect credit card data
Category: Blog
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Examining the factors driving high credit card interest rates
Category: Press release
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CFPB Warns that Digital Marketing Providers Must Comply with Federal Consumer Finance Protections
Category: Speech
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Director Chopra’s Prepared Remarks at the 2022 National Association of Attorneys General Presidential Summit
Category: Press release
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CFPB Fines U.S. Bank $37.5 Million for Illegally Exploiting Personal Data to Open Sham Accounts for Unsuspecting Customers
Category: Blog
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Office of Research blog: Housing inflation is hitting low-income renters
Category: Blog
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Using special purpose credit programs to serve unmet credit needs
Category: Report Credit Card Line Decreases
Category: Blog
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New report explores the impact of credit card line decreases on consumers
Category: Op-ed | Category: Speech
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Deputy Director Zixta Martinez’s Prepared Remarks at the FDIC Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion
Category: Blog
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Identifying and addressing the financial needs of immigrants
Category: Press release
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CFPB Helps Survivors Mitigate the Financial Consequences of Human Trafficking
Category: Press release
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CFPB Launches Inquiry into Practices that Leave Workers Indebted to Employers
Category: Blog
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CFPB tells credit card CEOs: Practice of suppressing payment data has potential for consumer harm
Category: Report Supervisory Highlights, Issue 26, Spring 2022
Category: Report Data Spotlight: Challenges in Rural Banking Access
Category: Press release
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CFPB Releases Report on Financial Challenges Facing Rural Communities
Category: Press release
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CFPB Seeks to Halt Negative Credit Reporting for Survivors of Human Trafficking
Category: Office of Research Publication Credit card late fees
Category: Blog
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The Fed is raising interest rates. What does that mean for borrowers and savers?
Category: Blog
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Report illustrates how the big three credit reporting companies are giving consumers the runaround
Category: Blog
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The hidden cost of junk fees
Category: Report Justice-Involved Individuals and the Consumer Financial Marketplace
Category: Press release
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Launches Initiative to Save Americans Billions in Junk Fees
Category: Blog
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Americans pay $120 billion in credit card interest and fees each year
Category: Office of Research Publication Consumer finances during the pandemic: Insights from the Making Ends Meet Survey
Category: Blog
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Making Ends Meet series: Consumer finances during the pandemic
Category: Blog
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The LIBOR index for adjustable-rate loans is being discontinued: here’s what to watch for
Category: Director's statement
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Statement by CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on HUD Guidance on Special Purpose Credit Programs
Category: Press release
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Agencies Announce Dollar Thresholds in Regulations Z and M for Exempt Consumer Credit and Lease Transactions
Category: Office of Research Publication Disputes on Consumer Credit Reports
Category: Press release
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CFPB Finds Credit Report Disputes Far More Common in Majority Black and Hispanic Neighborhoods
Category: Press release
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CFPB Joins Other Financial Regulatory Agencies in Issuing Statement on Discontinuation of LIBOR
Category: Report The Consumer Credit Card Market
Category: Press release
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CFPB Report Finds Declines in Credit Card Debt, New Applications and Increases in Digital Engagement in 2020
Category: Report 2021 College credit card agreements
Category: Press release
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Issues Report Finding a Continued Decline in College Credit Card Agreements in 2020
Category: Press release
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CFPB Proposes Rule to Shine New Light on Small Businesses’ Access to Credit
Category: Speech
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Remarks of Acting Director Dave Uejio at the Press Call on the Small Business Lending Proposed Rule
Category: Speech
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Prepared Remarks of Acting Director Dave Uejio at the NFHA’s Virtual Forum on Special Purpose Credit Programs
Category: Blog
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Credit access declined during the pandemic for credit cards, but increased for mortgages and auto loans
Category: Office of Research Publication 2020 Mortgage Market Activity and Trends
Category: Press release
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Mortgage refinance loans drove an increase in closed-end originations in 2020, new CFPB report finds
Category: Blog
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Credit card limits are rising for most groups after stagnating during the pandemic
Category: Press release
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CFPB Issues Interpretive Rule on Certain Mortgage and Disclosure Timing Requirements for the 2021 Juneteenth Federal Holiday
Category: Blog
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Credit card use is still declining compared to pre-pandemic levels
Category: Press release
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CFPB Finds Credit Applications Have Mostly Recovered to Pre-Pandemic Levels
Category: Office of Research Publication The Recovery of Credit Applications to Pre-Pandemic Levels
Category: Blog
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Trends in Reported Assistance on Consumers’ Credit Records
Category: Blog
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Delinquencies on credit accounts continue to be low despite the pandemic
Category: Blog
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HMDA Threshold Report Blog
Category: Office of Research Publication A Brief Note on General Lending Patterns of Small to Medium Size Closed-end HMDA Reporters
Category: Office of Research Publication Manufactured Housing Finance: New Insights from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
Category: Office of Research Publication Consumer use of payday, auto title, and pawn loans: Insights from the Making Ends Meet Survey
Category: Blog
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Consumer use of payday, auto title, and pawn loans
Category: Blog
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Making Ends Meet series: Changes in consumer financial status during the early months of the pandemic
Category: Press release
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CFPB Takes Action Against Reverse Mortgage Lender for Deceptive Advertising
Category: Report Fair Lending Report 2020
Category: Blog
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Protecting consumers through a pandemic: 2020 Fair Lending Report to Congress
Category: Office of Research Publication Balancing savings and debt: Findings from an online experiment
Category: Press release
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Sues 1st Alliance Lending, LLC and Its Principals for Alleged Unlawful Mortgage Lending Practices
Category: Press release
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and National Credit Union Administration Sign Memorandum of Understanding
Category: Press release
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Issues an Approval Order to Facilitate Employee Access to Earned but Unpaid Wages
Category: Press release
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Issues Approval Order to Facilitate the Use of Dual Usage Credit Cards
Category: Blog
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Credit applications remain depressed for credit cards and auto loans
Category: Press release
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Issues Advisory Opinion to Help Expand Fair, Equitable, and Nondiscriminatory Access to Credit

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